List of Entries

Aataentsic

Bantu

Cannibalism

Corn

Abenaki

Barbados

Caravel

Coronado, Francisco

Abyssinia (see Ethiopia)

Barlowe, Arthur

Carib

Corregidor

Acadia

Battel, Andrew

Caroline, Fort

Cortes, Hernan

Acosta, Jose de

Behaim, Martin

Cartier, Jacques

Council of the Indies

Adelantado

Benin

Casa de Contratacion

Counterreformation

Africanus, Leo (see Leo

Bermuda

Casta paintings

Cozumel

Africanus)

Bermuda Company

Castas

Cross staff

Aguilar, Francisco de

Black legend

Castile

Cuauhtemoc

Aguilar, Geronimo

Blaeu, Willem

Cathay

Cuba

(Jeronimo) de

Book, the

Cayor

Cuitlahuac

Akan

Brazil

Cayuga

Cuzco

Albuquerque, Alfonso de

Brendan the Navigator,

Charles V

Dagomba

Alexander VI

Saint

Chichen Itza

Dahomey

Algonquian

Brigantine

Chimalpahin, Domingo

Darfur

Alvarado, Pedro de

Bristol

Francisco de San Anton

De La Warr, Lord

Amazon River

Bry, Theodor de

Munon

Dengel, Lebna

Andes Mountains

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar

Chinampas

Dias, Bartholomeu

Anglo-Normans

Nunez

Cholula

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal

Apalachee

Cabildo

Church of England

Disease

Arawak

Cabinet of curiosities

Cieza de Leon, Pedro

Djenne-Djeno

Armada (see Spanish

Cabot, John

Cod

Djibouti

Armada)

Cabot, Sebastian

Codex Mendoza

Dominicans

Art and architecture

Cabral, Pedro Alvares

Coelho, Jorge

Drake, Sir Francis

Asante

Cacamatzin

D’Albuquerque

Drake Manuscript

Askia Muhammad I

Cacao

Coffee

Duran, Diego

Astrolabe

Cacique

Cofitachequi

Durer, Albrecht

Atahualpa

Cadamosto, Alvise de

Columbian Exchange

Dutch East India

Audiencia

Cahokia

Columbus, Bartholomew

Company

Auto-da-fe

Calabar

Columbus, Christopher

East India Company

Azores

California

Company of Cathay

Eden, Richard

Aztecs

Calusa

Conquistador(es)

El Dorado

Aztlan

Calvin, John

Coosa

Elizabeth I

Baba, Ahmad

Camden, William

Copan

Encomienda

Bahia

Cameroon

Cordoba, Francisco

Entail

Balboa, Vasco Nunez de

Canary Islands

Hernandez de

Escalante, Juan de

Ethiopia

Henry VIII

Leonardo da Vinci

Mossi

Ewe

Henry the Navigator

Lery, Jean de

Mound builders

Fang

Hiawatha

Levant Company

Mpongwe

Ferdinand and Isabella

Hidatsa

Lima

Nahua

Fernando Poo

Hispaniola

Limpieza de sangre

Nahuatl

Feudalism

Hochelaga

Linschoten, Jan Huygen

Narvaez, Panfilo de

Florentine Codex

Hohokam

Van

Natchez

Florida

Holy League

Lisbon

Native American religion

Flowery wars

Holy Roman Empire

London

Navigation technology

Fon

Hopewell culture

Luba

Nevis

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Hopi

Luhya

New Mexico

Franciscans

Horse

Luther, Martin

New Spain

French explorations of the

Huguenots

Mabila

New World

Atlantic

Huitzilopochtli

Machu Picchu

Niger River

Frobisher, Martin

Huron

Madeira

Norse

Fulani

Ibn Battuta

Magellan, Ferdinand

Northeast Passage

Gama, Vasco da

Ibn Khaldun, ‘Abd-ar-

Mahfuz, emir of Adal (see

Northwest Passage

Gao

Rahman Abu Zayd

Ethiopia)

Norumbega

Gedi

Ibn Muhammad ibn

Ma Huan

Nzinga

Gesner, Conrad von

Muhammad

Maize (see corn)

Ojeda, Alonso de

Ghana

Icebergs

Mali

Olmecs

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey

Iceland

Malinche

Onate, Juan de

Gold

Igbo

Maliseet

Oneida

Gold Coast

Ignatius Loyola

Mandeville, Sir John

Onondaga

Gomes, Diogo

Inca

Mansa Musa I

Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo

Gonja

India

Manteo

Fernandez de

Goree Island

Ingram, David

Mantoac

Oyo

Greenland

Inquisition

Mappae mundi

Palenque

Grenville, Sir Richard

Invention and technology

Marabout

Panama

Grijalva, Juan de

Iroquois

Maravi

Paper

Grotius, Hugo

Isabella (see Ferdinand

Martinique

Parliament

Guaman Poma

And Isabella)

Mary I

Parmenius, Stephen

Guerrero, Gonzalo

Islam

Massachusett

Passamaquoddy

Guiana (see Ralegh, Sir

Itzcoatl

Maya

Pearl diving

Walter)

Jamaica

Mbundu

Peckham, Sir George

Guinea-Bissau

James I

Mecca

Peru

Gutenberg, Johannes

Jenne-Jeno (see

Mendoza, Antonio de

Peter Martyr

Gensfleisch zum

Djenne-Djeno)

Mercator, Gerhardus

Philip II

Habitants

Jesuits

Mestizaje

Picts

Hacienda

Jews

Mestizo

Pigafetta, Antonio

Haida

John III

Mexico

Pizarro, Francisco

Hakluyt, Richard, the

Kaabu, kingdom of

Michelangelo

Plague

Elder

Kayor (see Cayor)

Middle passage

Polo, Marco

Hakluyt, Richard, the

Khipu

Mississippian

Ponce de Leon, Juan

Younger

Kongo

Moctezuma II Xocoyotzin

Population trends

Hanno the elephant

Kotoko

Mohawk

Porres, St. Martin de

Harriot, Thomas

Lane, Ralph

Monardes, Nicholas

Portuguese seaborne

Hausa

L’Anse aux Meadows

Monsters

Empire

Havasupai

Las Casas, Bartolome de

Montagnais-Naskapi

Potosi

Hawkins, Sir John

Laudonniere, Rene de

Monte Alban

Powhatan

Headright

Le Moyne, Jacques

Monte Verde

Prester John

Henry IV

Leo X

Montserrat

Principe

Henry VII

Leo Africanus

Moryson, Fynes

Printing press

Privy Council

Sao Tome

Tabasco

Tupinamba

Pueblo

Scribal publication

Tacuba

Valdivia, Pedro de

Puerto Rico

Secotan

Taino

Velazquez, Diego de

Purchas, Samuel

Seneca

Tarascan

Venice

Puritans

Senegambia

Teke

Veracruz

Quetzalcoatl

Sepulveda, Juan Gines de

Tempest, The

Verrazano, Giovanni da

Ralegh, Sir Walter

Sequeira, Diogo Lopes de

Tenochtitlan

Vespucci, Amerigo

Ramusio, Giovanni

Settle, Dionyse

Teotihuacan

Vikings (see Norse)

Battista

Seville

Tezcatlipoca

Vinland

Reconquista

Shakespeare, William

Thevet, Andre

Vitoria, Francisco de

Reduccion

Shipwreck narratives

Tikal

Waldseemuller, Martin

Reformation

Silk Road

Timbuktu

Walsingham, Sir Francis

Religion (see individual

Silver

Timucua

Wanchese

Entries)

Slavery

Tlacacla

Werowance

Repartimiento

Slave trade

Tlaloc

White, John

Requerimiento

Smallpox

Tlaxcala

Witches

Ricci, Matteo

Songhai

Tobacco

Xicotencatl the Elder

Roanoke

Soto, Hernando de

Toltecs

Xicotencatl the Younger

Sahagun, Bernardino de

Spanish Armada

T-O maps

Yoruba

Sahara

Spice Islands

Tordesillas, Treaty of

Yucatan Peninsula

Salt trade

Stade, Hans

Toxcatl (see

Zacatecas

Sandoval, Gonzalo de

Sudan

Tezcatlipoca)

Zambo

Sandys, Sir Edwin

Sufism

Travel narratives

Zumarraga, Juan de

San Martin de Porres (see

Sugar

Trent, Council of

Zuni

Porres, St. Martin de)

Suleiman I

Tuareg

Santa Fe

Sundiata Keita

Tula (see Toltecs)