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The problems related to the encounters between Europeans and Africans, the Americas, and Asians

                Conflict, Economic Systems, Movement of People and Goods

 

                (Asians/Mongols)

The Silk Road Foundation - Website contains information, timelines and maps, and resource links about the peoples, history and cultures of the Inner Asia region, Chinese silk-making, and interaction between Europeans and Asian peoples on this trade route which was used for centuries before and after Marco Polo's travels from Italy to China (1271-1275):

                http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

 

                Historical Maps of Asia, Africa and the Americas, from University of Texas at Austin:  Historical maps from 18^th to 20^th Centuries, showing the influence of the European Colonial powers during this period:

                http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html

 

                (Americas)

 

Overview of 16^th Century in Norton Anthology of English Literature Topics Online.  Click on “Renaissance, Exploration, Travel and the World Outside Europe” to read about English Exploration of the Americas in the 16^th Century:

http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/16century/welcome.htm

 

                Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America:

                http://www.floridahistory.com/

 

Library of Congress Online Version of Exhibit:  "1492:  An Ongoing Voyage"- the existing cultures in the Americas, the contacts and conflicts with the European explorers from 1492 to 1600:

                http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html

 

Tulane University's Latin American Library Collection:  Click on "Treasures of the Collection" to view images, including 16^th century document requesting return by Spanish conqueror Cortés of certain lands to the natives of Atatepec, Mexico, or click on "Exhibits" and "Early Chronicles of the Americas" for information about early Spanish printing press produced writings (16^th Century) used to help convert the natives to Christianity:

http://lal.tulane.edu/

 

From Canada's Museum of Canadian Civilization, a virtual museum about "New France," portions of present day Canada and the U.S. which were explored by Jacques Cartier and others in the 1500-1600's and colonized by settlers from France.

http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/vmnfe.asp

 

Malvine (Modern Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Networks in Europe): Multi-Government European Website contains collections of manuscripts relating to European colonial powers' explorations and settlements in the New World: 

http://molcat.bl.uk/msscat/INDEX.ASP

Click on "Search the Descriptions" and in the search box, type in "explorer near letter" for the following results:

 

Item 6. in this search result is Item no. 36317, "Venezuela  Papers" Vol. IV (1596-1600).  Descriptions of the individual documents in this collection will show some of the concerns of early Spanish explorers and settlers in the Americas, including pirates and the relationships between competing colonial nations, such as Spain, England & Holland.  (Click on “Show the full description.”)

 

Item 7. in this search result is Item no. 38650 "A--N Miscellaneous original letters and papers," (1517-20^th cent.)  Descriptions of the individual documents in this collection include a letter from a British governor in New York, a 1775 letter calling for surrender of City of Quebec, etc.  (Click on “Show the full description.”)

 

 

Mariners' Museum Age of Exploration website - covering sea voyage explorations from the Ancient World to 19^th Century and including numerous sections on European explorers of the 16^th and 17^th Centuries and their discoveries:

http://www.mariner.org/age/menu.html

 

University of Calgary, Canada Website:  "Voyages of Exploration:  The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries".  Information about European exploration in the Americas, Asia and Africa during this time period:

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/

 

Exploration … Americas:  University website offering extensive information and links about the European voyages of discovery to the Americas:

http://history.evansville.net/explorat.html

 

From American Memory online collection of the Library of Congress (U.S.) - From this "Collection Finder" page, click on "1400s-1699" under "Time," then type in "discovery exploration" and press "search."  From the list that follows:

Item No. 8 is "Map of US showing routes of principal explorers from 1501-1844";

Item No. 17 is Diagram of exploration of Grand Canyon and Colorado, etc. Rivers from 1540-1908:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html

 

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