The New World A Captivating Guide to the Americas, Age of Discovery, Christopher Columbus, and Transatlantic Slave Trade Hardcover February 21, 2021 by Captivating History

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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