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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