Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492–1600

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Europeans Encounter the New World,

1492–1600

CHAPTER OUTLINE

Europe in the Age of Exploration (pp. 28–31)

A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic (pp. 31–35)

Spanish Exploration and Conquest (pp. 35–45)

The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe (pp. 45–47)

Conclusion: The Promise of the New World for Europeans (p. 48)

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CHRONOLOGY

1480 Portuguese ships reach Congo.
1488 Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope.
1492 Christopher Columbus lands in the Caribbean.
1493 Columbus’s second voyage to New World.
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas.
1497 John Cabot searches for Northwest Passage.
1498 Vasco da Gama sails to India.
1513 Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses Isthmus of Panama.
1517 Protestant Reformation begins in Germany.
1519 Hernán Cortés searches for wealth in Mexico.
Ferdinand Magellan sets out to sail around the world.
1520 Mexica in Tenochtitlán revolt against Spaniards.
1521 Cortés conquers Mexica.
1532 Francisco Pizarro begins conquest of Peru.
1535 Jacques Cartier explores St. Lawrence River.
1539 Hernando de Soto explores southeastern North America.
1540 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado starts to explore Southwest and Great Plains.
1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo explores California coast.
1549 Repartimiento reforms replace encomienda.
1565 St. Augustine, Florida, settled.
1576 Martin Frobisher explores northern Canadian waters.
1587 English settle Roanoke Island.
1598 Juan de Oñate explores New Mexico.
1599 Acoma pueblos revolt against Oñate.