1. Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation 6/e
Chapter One:
The Collision of Cultures

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America Before Columbus  
The Peoples of the Precontact Americas
The “Clovis” People
Archaeologists and Population Diversity
The “Archaic” Period
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North American Migrations
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How the Early North Americans Lived
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America Before Columbus 
The Growth of Civilizations: The South
The Incan Empire
Mexica 
The Mayan Pyramid of Kukulkan (Royalty-Free/CORBIS)
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America Before Columbus  
The Civilizations of
the North
Hunting and Gathering
Cahokia
Gender Relations
Iroquois Women (Library of Congress)
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Europe Looks Westward  
Commerce and Nationalism
European Population Growth
Portuguese Exploration
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Marco Polo leaves for the Far East (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
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Europe Looks Westward  
Christopher Columbus
Columbus’s First Voyage
Circumnavigation of the Globe
Christopher Columbus (Library of Congress)
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European Exploration and Conquest,
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Europe Looks Westward  
The Spanish Empire
“Conquistadores”
Cortés conquers the Aztecs
Brutality and greed
Spanish America
Ordinances of discovery
Catholic missions
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Spanish America
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Europe Looks Westward  
Northern Outposts
St. Augustine and Santa Fe
Pueblo revolt of 1680
Assimilation and Accommodation
Pueblo Ruins in New Mexico (CORBIS / Royalty-Free)
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Mexico, California, and Florida, (Royalty-Free / CORBIS)
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De Soto in North America (Rare Books Division, Library of Congress)
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Europe Looks Westward  
Biological and Cultural Exchanges
Beneficial and Catastrophic Exchanges
Deliberate Subjugation and Extermination
New World Crops
Complex racial hierarchy
Intermarriage, mestizos
Coercive Wage System
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Europe Looks Westward  
Africa and America
Trade States of West Africa
Ghana and Mali
Matrilineal Societies
African Slavery
Sugar and the Slave Trade
1633 Map of Atlantic (Royalty-Free/CORBIS)
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The Arrival of the English
Incentives for Colonization
Scarce Land
Mercantilism
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The Arrival of the English
Incentives for Colonization
Religious Motives of Colonization
The English Reformation
Puritan Separatists
Lessons of Irish Colonization
John Calvin (Portrait Gallery)
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The Arrival of the English
The French and the Dutch in America
Disproportionate French influence
New Amsterdam
A French Map of North America, (Royalty-Free/CORBIS)
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The Arrival of the English
The First English Settlements
The Spanish Armada
Gilbert and Raleigh
Failed Colony of Roanoke
A Galleon in Flames (The Palma Collection / Getty Images)
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America in the World: 
The Atlantic Context of Early American History
1587 Map of the Americas (Fototeca Storica Nazionale / Getty Images )
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America in the World: 
Mercantilism and Colonial Commerce
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Debating the Past: 
The American Population Before Columbus
The Mayan Pyramid of Kukulkan (Royalty-Free/CORBIS)
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