02: More Fun In The New World Take me away to Nowhere Plains!
– Charles M.K. Thompson IV
The segments of this outstanding lecture are: Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events: Byzantine Empire, terra nullius, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Aztecs, Incas, Mayas, Hernando Cortez, Mississippians, Amerigo Vespucci
Questions for consideration: - Why were the Western European nations so eager to discover and colonize the New World?
- Discuss the successes and the failures of Spanish expansion in the Americas.
- How did the Indians of North America differ culturally from the Indians of South and Central America?
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