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Worlds Collide: Europe and America, 14501630
World of Vikings
Site claims to be the definitive guide to viking resources on
the Internet.
Columbus and the Age of
Discovery
As their contribution to the 500th Anniversary of the Encounter of
Two Worlds, the history department and academic computing services of Millersville
University of Pennsylvania have created and installed a text retrieval
system containing over 1,100 text articles from various magazines, journals,
newspapers, speeches, official calendars, and other sources relating to
various encounter themes.
1492:
An Ongoing Voyage
This Library of Congress's exhibit examines the first sustained contacts
between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers
from 1492 to 1600.
Discoverers
Web
This site tries to gather all kinds of information found on the web
about voyages of discovery and exploration.
Bartolome
de las Casas Manuscripts
From the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan,
this site is a description of the manuscript by de las Casas owned by the
Library.
The search at Mexico's Index
@ Global Search provides links to 16 Aztec world sites, including the
Aztec calendar, culture, and languages.
The Native American Adventure
Includes a live 3D virtual art museum, indigenous peoples literature,
and the American Indian Action Center.
Native American
Sites
The goal of this site is to provide access to home pages of individual
Native Americans and Nations, and to other sites that provide solid information
about American Indians.
Native Web
The site's purpose is to provide a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous
peoples.
John
Winthrop
Some history about John Winthrop and the Puritans crossing the Atlantic
is provided at this site for the Shippensburg University Bible Fellowship.
American Lives: Luis de Velasco and Opechancanough/Massatamohtnock
Hacienda
de Trejo
Photos of de Velasco's hacienda are available, but unless you speak
Spanish you'll have to do without the text.
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