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xxxCHAPTER 1Colliding Worlds, 1491%u20131600 6Why did contact among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans cause such momentous changes?In %u201cWunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erkl%u00e4rung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia . . .%u201d [America, pt. 1, German], Frankfort: Theodore De Bry, 1590, p. 81. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.The Native American Experience 8The First Americans 9American Empires 10Chiefdoms and Confederacies 12AMERICA IN THE WORLDAltered Landscapes 14Patterns of Trade 17Sacred Power 18Western Europe: The Edge of the Old World 18Hierarchy and Authority 19Peasant Society 19Expanding Trade Networks 20Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors 22West and Central Africa: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade 24Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates 24Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade 27The Spirit World 27Exploration and Conquest 28Portuguese Expansion 28The African Slave Trade 29Sixteenth-Century Incursions 30CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE IN SOURCESA Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists 32CHAPTER 1 REVIEW 36WORKING WITH EVIDENCEColliding Cultures 38CHAPTER 1 EXAM PRACTICE 44CHAPTER 2American Experiments, 1521%u20131700 46Why did the American colonies develop the social, political, and economic institutions they did, and why were some colonial experiments more successful than others?Private Collection/Peter Newark American Pictures/Bridgeman ImagesSpain%u2019s Tribute Colonies 48A New American World 49The Columbian Exchange 49The Protestant Challenge to Spain 50Plantation Colonies 52Brazil%u2019s Sugar Plantations 53England%u2019s Chesapeake Colonies 53The Laboratory of the Caribbean 57Plantation Life 57Neo-European Colonies 59COMPARING SECONDARY SOURCESWhat Role Did Climate and Ecology Play in American Colonization? 60New France 62New Netherland 63The Rise of the Haudenosaunees 65New England 66CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE IN SOURCESSusanna Martin, Accused Witch 70War and Rebellion in North America 73Metacom%u2019s War, 1675%u20131676 73The Pueblo Revolt 74Bacon%u2019s Rebellion 75CHAPTER 2 REVIEW 77WORKING WITH EVIDENCEWho Was Pocahontas? 78CHAPTER 2 EXAM PRACTICE 82SKILLS WORKSHOP:DEVELOPMENTS AND PROCESSES 84 PART 1PRACTICE ESSAY QUESTIONS 86About the Cover Image iAbout the Authors viiAbout the AP%u00ae Edition Contributors viiiDear Colleagues xAmerica%u2019s History: What%u2019s Inside This Eleventh Edition xiBrief Contents xxviiiContents xxxMaps, Figures, and Tables xlviPART 1 Transformations of North America, 1491%u20131700 2THEMATIC CONNECTIONS 3 THEMATIC UNDERSTANDING TIMELINE 4MAKING CONNECTIONS ACROSS CHAPTERS 5Contents%u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Do not distribute.