DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Conquest of the Americas [videorecording] / Marshall C. Eakin.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2002.

4 videodiscs (180 min. each) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 112 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.

Great courses, Modern history

Great courses (DVD). Modern history.

Explorers.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Feature films -- United States.

Educational films.

Filmed lectures.

America -- Discovery and exploration.

America -- History -- To 1810.

Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig), 1952-

Teaching Company.

Accompanying course guidebook includes a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography.

DVD.

Three peoples collide ; Native Americans ; Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas ; Europeans and Africans ; European overseas expansion ; Christopher Columbus, path to conquest -- Stepping stones, the conquest of the Caribbean ; Rise of Hernan Cortes ; Fall of Montezuma ; Conquistadors and Incas ; Frontiers of empire ; Portuguese Brazil : the King's plantation -- Atlantic slave trade ; Haciendas and plantations ; American silver and Spanish galleons ; Sword and the cross ; New peoples, new religions ; Late arrivals : The English in North America -- Conquest by dispossession ; Late arrivals : the French in the Americas ; Pirates of the Caribbean ; Clash of cultures, victors and vanquished ; Rise of American identities ; Americas : collisions and convergence.

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