HIST 010 The World, 900 - 1750
Feros
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
PRE-1800
This course sees Columbus' 1492 voyage as the pivotal event that marked the beginning of the modern era in world history. It focuses on European expansion in the 16th and 17th centuries, and includes precedents in Old World connections and rivalries, as well as the incorporation of America into an expanded world system. Emphasis is on Latin America. The pre-1492 evolution of indigenous societies, especially Aztecs and Incas, will be examined before turning to Spain, Portugal, and their New World conquests. The principal theme is the flow of goods, ideas, and organisms—people (and microbes that prey on them), animals, plants—to and from the New World and the impact of these flows on America's native peoples. Africa and the forced migration of the slave trade are also dealt with, as are the contributions of Africans to the racial mixtures and syncretic cultures of Ibero-America.
