The New World: A Captivating Guide to the Americas, Age of Discovery, Christopher Columbus, and Transatlantic Slave Trade - Hardcover

by Captivating History (Author)

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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