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Columbus letter from Basel

1. maritime community of skilled navigators
2. Enterprise of the Indies
3. printing press
   • Santangel letter published 1493, Peter Martyr
   • exaggerrated copies printed in Europe. This fanciful maplike illustration, showing the islands which Colombus named, is one of eight woodcuts accompanying the second edition of the Columbus letter published in Basel in 1494 ( from LC)
   • map of Juan de la Cosa 1500 was 1st to show North American mainland
   • map from Mundus Novus, 1502, by Amerigo Vespucci, official Pilot-General of Spain
   • Waldseemuller, 1507, named America
   • Mercator published 1st modern atlas 1570
4. Columbian Exchange
   • from Europe: sugar, pig, smallpox
   • from America: potato, tobacco, quinine
   • Slave trade begins
5. discovered pathway
   • Magellan, Urdaneta, Verranzano
6. colonization
   • La Navidad, Santo Domingo
   • Balboa to Panama, de Leon to Florida 1513
   • conquistadores and missionaries
   • Hernando de Soto to the Miss. R. 1541
   • Juan de Onate to New Mexico 1598
   • missions, encomiendas, ranchos