What crossed the Atlantic
Demographic catastrophe in the Americas
The silver revolution
Sugar and the plantation system
Environmental transformation
Cultural and social consequences
Primary sources
Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
Bernal Diaz del Castillo on Tenochtitlan (c. 1568)
Thomas Harriot on the effects of disease in Virginia (1590)
Key figures
Key events summary
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