Chapter 1: The New Global World, 1400-1620



Chapter 1: The New Global World, 1400–1620

I. The Native American Experience

1. The First Americans

2. The Mayas and the Aztecs

3. The Indians of the North

A. The Hopewell Culture

B. The Peoples of the Southwest

C. Mississippian Civilization

D. Eastern Woodland Peoples

II. Tradition-Bound Europe

1. European Peasant Society

A. The Peasantry

B. The Peasant’s Fate

2. Hierarchy and Authority

3. The Power of Religion

III. Europeans Create a Global World, 1450–1600

1. The Renaissance Changes Europe, 1300–1500

A. Innovations in Economics, Art, and Politics

B. Maritime Exploration

2. West African Society and Slavery

A. West African Life

B. Portuguese Trade

C. The Slave Trade

3. Europeans Explore America

A. Columbus and America

4. The Spanish Conquest

A. The Fall of the Aztecs

B. The Impact of Diseases

C. The Legacy of the Conquest

IV. The Rise of Protestant England, 1500–1620

1. The Protestant Movement

A. Martin Luther’s Attack on Church Doctrine

B. The Doctrines of John Calvin

C. English Protestantism

2. The Dutch and English Challenge Spain

3. The Social Causes of English Expansion

A. The Decline of the Nobility

B. The Dispossession of the Peasantry

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