Videos
Kris Lane, professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University, deconstructs five myths about Christopher Columbus.
In the years following Columbus's first voyage, Spanish adventurers known as conquistadores began to colonize the surrounding areas of the Caribbean and the Americas. In this video, Kim from Khan Academy explores the social changes that Spanish colonization created in the New World.
John Green of Crash Course World History discusses the changes wrought by contact between the old world and the new. 12:08.
As Adam Conover of the show “Adam Ruins Everything” explains, Christopher Columbus wasn't brave—he was just really bad at math.
Web Links
A concise biography of Christopher Columbus by History.com
History Today provides a rundown of Ponce de Leon’s discovery of Florida and the myths that surround him.
Owlcation covers the complicated Native American reaction to newly arrived European settlers.
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