2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog

HI 211 Discovery & Conquest 1492-1598

Examines the major themes of the European expansion beginning in the early Middle Ages to the Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas and Asia. Topics include European and Indian worldviews, biological and demographic consequences of contact, development of a conquest culture in the Americas, and the role of missionaries and conquistadors. Does not fulfill requirement as a Latin American elective.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

HI 100 or HI 102