The Unfinished Nation Brinkley
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OBJECTIVES

A thorough study of Chapter 1 should enable the student to understand:

1. The history of the Native Americans and their cultural distinctions prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
2. How European knowledge of the New World was changed by the expectations and results of Columbus’s first voyage.
3. The ways in which the peoples of the New and Old Worlds affected each other in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with an emphasis on the enormous role that disease played in this interaction.
4. The changes in western Europe which resulted in increasingly widespread interest in colonization.
5. The colonial policies of each European nation with an interest in the New World, and the effect each had on the future of the Americas.
6. Spain’s New World empire in the sixteenth century and its impact on Spain’s rivalry with England.
7. The varying African cultures from which black slaves were taken and the early development of slavery in the New World.
8. The role of religion in European efforts to colonize the New World.
9. The impact of the English experience in Ireland on English efforts to colonize the New World.
10. The first efforts of the English to establish a colony in the New World and the reasons for their failure.

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