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Colonial
Topics
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Unit
One: Two Worlds Collide
The first quarter of this course examines
1) human evolution and migration; 2) the development of two hemispheric
worlds around 10,000 years ago; 3) the development of Amerindian
cultures in the Americas; 4) the development of European cultures
in Eurasia; and, 5) the contact experience.
Topic
I: Creation of Two Worlds [html]
[PDF]
A.
Handout: Earth Calendar [PDF]
B.
Handout: Human Evolution [PDF]
C.
Mystery of the First Americans [html]
Discussion
I: Guns, Germs, and Steel [here]
Topic II: Eurasia
Before Contact
[html] [PDF]
Topic III: The
Amerindian World [PDF]
A.
Mayan Links: Tikal [link];
Palenque [link]
B. Teotihuacan [link]
C.
North America: Cahokia [link];
Virginia [link]
Topic
IV: Columbus and Contact [PDF]
A. Columbus Through First Contact
B. Columbus: Hero or Villan
C."What
Columbus Knew"
D.
Columbus
Maps
Topic
V: The Spanish Empire [PDF]
A.
Images
from Colonial Latin America
B.
Colonization and Print in the Americas
C.
Timeline of Colonial Latin America
D.
Encounters in America
E.
Controversial
Atlantic Slave Numbers [pdf]
Topic
VI: The English Delay [PDF]
A.
Protestant Reformation [link]
B.
Henry VIII [link]
[link]
C.
Six wives of Henry VIII [link]
D.
Elizabeth I [link]
E.
Sir Francis Drake [link]
F.
Richard Hakluyt [link]
Topic
VII . British Colonial Stirrings [PDF]
Topic VIII. Virginia Settlement, 1607-24 [PDF]
A.
Reading: "Jamestown Fiasco" [here]
Topic
IX . Virginia Development, 1642-1750 [PDF]
A.
Reading: "Slavery, Race . . . " Barbara Fields
Topic
X . Massachusetts Settlement, 1629-1640 [PDF]
A.
Reading: Perry Miller, "Marrow of Puritan Divinity"
Topic
XI . Massachusetts Development, 1640-1720 [PDF]
A.
Reading: "The Devil, The Body . . ." [here]
Topic
XII: Pennsylvania Settlement, 1681 [PDF]
Topic
XIII: Pennsylvania Development, 1700-1750 [PDF]
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