Time Period #1 [1491 to 1607] 

On a North American continent controlled by American Indians, contact among the peoples of Europe, the Americas, and West Africa created a new world.

1.1 From Pangaea to Paradise - The Americas before European Conquest 
1.2 To the Ends of the Earth: The Age of European Exploration and Discovery 
1.3 The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
1.4 Devils in the Desert: Spanish Exploration and Conquest [1500-1620]
1.5 Encomienda: Indigenous Labors Systems in New Spain
1.6 The Spanish Mission System – “A Wealth of Souls to Harvest”
1.7 The French and the Dutch, in the New World 1524 to 1608
1.8 Gentlemen in the Wilderness - The Planting of English America [1588 – 1607]