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| List of Features | |
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| List of Maps and Color Plates | |
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| Preface About the Authors | |
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| The First Peoples Of The Americas | |
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| The First Americans Coming to America | |
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| Subsistence Strategies and the Development of Agriculture | |
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| Sedentary Communities and Ceremonial Centers | |
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| Ceremonial Centers in Mexico and Peru | |
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| The Olmec: ldquo;Mother Culturerdquo; of Mexico? | |
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| Chaviacute;n de Huantar in Peru | |
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| The Cities of Classic Mesoamerica | |
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| Monte Albaacute;n Teotihuacan Maya | |
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| Civilization in the Classic Era Peru | |
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| After Chaviacute;n The Moche | |
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| The Nazca Tiwanaku | |
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| The Wari Empire Mesoamerica and Peru, 900-1400 C.E. | |
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| The Toltecs | |
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| The Mixtecs of Oaxaca | |
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| The Post-Classic Maya Peru after Tiwanaku and Wari | |
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| The World of Early Americans | |
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| People and Their Environment Early | |
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| Americans and Their Beliefs Communities, States, and War | |
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| How Historians Understand Archaeology | |
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| Literacy, And The Study Of History | |
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| Latin American Lives Pacal The GreaT | |
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| King Of Palenque, 603-683 C.E. | |
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| Slice of Life The Craft Workers Of Chan Chan, 1400 C.E. | |
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| Conclusion Learning More About Latin Americans | |
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| Americans And Iberians On The Eve Of Contact | |
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| Mesoamerica in the Fifteenth Century | |
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| The Rise of the Mexica Mexica Statecraft | |
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| Mexica Religion Everyday Life in the Time of the Mexica | |
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| Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Spanish Invasion | |
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| The Andes in the Fifteenth Century | |
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| The Rise of the Incas Inca Statecraft | |
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| Andean Religion in the Time of the Incas | |
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| Everyday Life in the Time of the Incas | |
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| The Aztecs and Incas Compared | |
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| The Diversity of American Peoples | |
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| The Tainos and Caribs | |
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| The Tupi of Coastal Brazil | |
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| The ldquo;Pueblordquo; Peoples of New Mexico | |
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| The Spanish and the Portuguese Centuries of Conquest Medieval | |
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| Iberia and the Reconquista | |
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| Iberian Monarchies in the Fifteenth Century | |
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| The Breakdown of Iberian ldquo;Convivenciardquo; | |
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| Iberian Society in the Fifteenth Century | |
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| Iberia and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion | |
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| How Historians Understand | |
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| Counting People In Past Societies | |
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| Latin American Lives TANTA CARHUA | |
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| Bride Of The Sun | |
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| Slice of Life | |
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| The Marketplace At Tlatelolco | |
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| Conclusion Learning More About Latin Americans | |
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| The European Conquest Of America | |
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| The Europeans Arrive Columbus and the First Encounters | |
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| The Caribbean Colonies | |
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| The Portuguese in Brazil | |
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| The Spanish in Mesoamerica and the Andes Corteacute;s and the Aztecs | |
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| The Search for ldquo;Otro Meacute;xicordquo; | |
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| The Pizarros and the Incas Military Conquest or Strategic Alliance? | |
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| Building a Colonial Society | |
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| The Ecological Conquest Conquistadors, Encomenderos, and Native Peoples A Multiracial Society in Formation | |
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| The ldquo;Spiritual Conquestrdquo; of Latin America Early Evangelization | |
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| The Impact of Evangelization Resistance to Christianity | |
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| The Consolidation of Colonial Empires | |
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| The Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru | |
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| The Spanish Colonial Bureaucracy Royal Government in Brazil | |
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| The Church in Spanish America and Brazil | |
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| The Spanish and Portuguese Empires Latin American | |
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| Lives BARTOLOMEacute; DE LAS CASAS, 1474-1566 | |
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| How Historians Understand Malinche And The Uses Of Historical Memory | |
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| Slice of Life | |
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| The Cuzco Cabildo Founds A Convent, 1551 Conclusion | |
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| Learning More About Latin Americans | |
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| The Iberiansrsquo; New World | |
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| The Lure of Precious Metals | |
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| The Silver Boom Labor and Technology in Silver | |
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| Mining Procuring a Labor Supply | |
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| Gold Mining in Brazil Agriculture | |
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| Sugar Plantations Haciendas and Ranches Landownership | |
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| Landed Elites Rural Society Trade and Transportation | |
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| International Commerce Overland | |
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| Transport Merchants Mercantile Restrictions | |
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| Cities and Towns in the Iberiansrsquo; New World | |
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| Capital Cities Provincial Capitals and Other | |
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| Towns Urban Amenities Urban Working Classes | |