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Describes the history of trade routes and commerce in the New World, including the Panama Route, the Inca Royal Road, the California Mission Trail, and the Cape Horn Route.

Presents an illustrated biography of Christopher Columbus discussing his life, achievements, and legacy. Includes timelines.

A biography of Christopher Columbus.

History of the European conquest of the Americas from the Spanish in South America to the North American colonization and present day interventions.

Examines the Christian views of explorers Christopher Columbus and Hern?n Cort?s, arguing that evangelizing was one of their main reasons for coming to the New World and that this fact has been obscured by revisionist history; and also discusses the early Norse explorers and the Crusades.

A comparative history of the revolutionary age in the Americas, looking at the American Revolution of 1776, the slave revolt in Saint Dominque (now Haiti) in 1791, and the Spanish-American fight for independence, and arguing that the issues at stake in those wars remain central in modern American politics.

Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus, covering his childhood in fifteenth-century Genoa through his fourth and final ocean voyage, and discussing the impact his discoveries had on his benefactors and the native peoples of the Americas.

Illustrations, maps, and text help retrace the paths of the Conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu.

Presents the story of Leif Eriksson and his family, discussing their voyages of discovery to Greenland and North America.

This reference vilume documents who did what in America from A.D. 1000 to the present, in a graphic horizontal linkage of people and events grouped under headings entitled History and Politics, Science and Technology, the Arts, and Miscellaneous.