Publisher's Synopsis
If you want to discover the captivating history of the New World, then keep reading...
Four captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Americas: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Continents of North and South America, Starting from the Olmecs through the Maya and Aztecs to European Colonization and Independence Movements
- Age of Discovery: A Captivating Guide to an Era of Exploration in European History, Including Discoveries Such as Christopher Columbus' Voyages to the Americas and Vasco da Gama's Sea Route to India
- Christopher Columbus: A Captivating Guide to the Life of an Italian Explorer and His Voyages to the Americas
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Captivating Guide to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Stories of the Slaves That Were Brought to the Americas
Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book include:
- The Olmecs: The Rubber People (1500-400 BCE)
- The Maya: The K'iche' People (3000 BCE-1511 CE)
- The Aztecs (1250-1521 CE)
- The Andean Civilizations and the Incas
- South America: Peru, Chile, Brazil, and Venezuela from Pre-Columbian Times through Colonization
- South America: Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay from Pre-Columbian Times through Colonization
- South American Wars of Independence
- The Natives in North America (13,000 BCE-1492 CE)
- Iceland and Greenland
- The European Colonization of North America, 1492-1733
- North American Conflicts, Including America's War for Independence, 1754-1783
- North America: Mexico and Canada, 1821-1982
- Cuba and the West Indies
- And much, much more!
Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book include:
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Bartolomeu Dias
- Vasco da Gama
- Albuquerque
- Christopher Columbus
- The Latter Voyages of Christopher Columbus
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Ponce de León
- Diogo Lopes de Sequeira
- Hernán Cortés
- Ferdinand Magellan
- John Cabot
- The Younger Columbus
- The Laws of Burgos
- Jacques Cartier
- Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
- Francis Drake
- Walter Raleigh and the Two Failed Colonies
- The East India Trading Company
- The Jamestown Colony
- The Pilgrims of the Mayflower
- The Dutch East India Company
- Navigation and Mapping
- Food, Agriculture, and Livestock
- Disease, Slavery, and Religion
- And much, much more!
Some of the topics covered in part 3 of this book include:
- Into the Blue Unknown
- Dead Reckoning Forward
- Initial Exploration
- Second Voyage
- Third Voyage: Chaos Reigns
- The Last Voyage
- And much, much more!
Some of the topics covered in part 4 of this book include:
- Why and how the slave trade began
- Where most of the enslaved people came from and where most of them were shipped to
- The European nations that participated in the slave trade
- How the slave trade network grew and evolved through time
- The role African nations played in trafficking their own neighbors
- How the enslaved were treated and the suffering they went through
- Who started the abolition of the slave trade and why
- And more
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