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INDEX
Ababruco
Acul Bay
Africa
Guinea
Treaty of Alcáçovas and
agriculture
Aguado, Juan de
Aguja
Ahuitzotl
Aichi
alcohol
Alexander VI, Pope
Alfonso V, King
Alhambra
Almanach perpetuum (Zacuto)
Alonso, Rodrigo
Alta Vela
America, naming of
Amona
Anacaona
animals
Columbian Exchange and
birds
dogs
horses
hutias
iguanas
manatees
manta ray
monkeys
parrots
peccaries
poisonous
sharks
Antigua
Antigua
Aomaquique
Aragon
Arana, Beatriz de
Arana, Diego de
Arana, Pedro de
Arawak
Archipelago of Las Mulatas
Aristotle
Arráez, Juan
Arzila
Asia
China, see China
Japan (Çipango)
astrolabes
Asunción, La
Atlantic Ocean
Azores
Santa María
Aztec empire
Azua
Bahamas
Long Island
San Salvador
Bahía de Cochinos
Balandras Channel
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de
Ballester, Miguel
Baracoa
Barahona
Barbara, Juan
Barrameda, Sanlúcar de
Barros, João de
Bastidas, Rodrigo de
Beata
Bechalla
Behaim, Martin
Behechio
Belesio, Pietro
Bella Saonese, La
Bermuda
Bermuda (Santiago de Palos)
Bermúdez, Francisco
Bernáldez, Andrés
Biblioteca Colombina
frigate
parrots
Black Legend
Boa Vista
Bobadilla, Beatriz de
Bobadilla, Francisco de
Boca del Dragón (Dragon’s Mouth)
Bohío
Bonao
Book of Privileges (Columbus)
Book of Prophecies (Columbus)
Borremeo, Giovanni
Brazil
Breviesca, Jimeno
Buil, Father
Burgos
butterflies
Cabo de la Galera
Cabo del Farol
Cabral, Pedro Alvares
cacao (chocolate)
cacique, term
Cadiz
Calderón, Diego
Canary Islands
cannibals
Cáo, Diogo
Caonabó
Cape Cruz
Cape Gracias á Dios
Cape Honduras
Cape Lindo
Cape of Good Hope
Cape St. Vincent
Cape San Miguel
Cape Tiburón
Cape Verde Islands
Cap Haitien
Capitana, La
Carabarü
Cariay
Caribbean
Caribbean Sea
Caribs
Cascais
Casenove, Guillaume de
cassava
Castañeda, Juan de
Castile
Castile, Alonso de
Caxinas
Cayman Islands
Cayo Moa Grande
Cayo Piedras
cemís
Central America
Chanca, Diego Alvarez
Charis
Charles VII, King
Charles VIII, King
chicha
China
Master Paolo and
Quinsay (Hangzhou)
Chios
Chiriqui Lagoon
chocolate
Christianity
Indians and
Jews and
Muslims and
slavery and
Çiamba
Cibao
Ciguayo
cinnamon
Çipango (Japan)
cocoa (chocolate)
cocoa plums
cohoba
Colina
Colombia
Colombo, Juan Antonio
Colón, Diego
Columbian Exchange
Columbus, Bartholomew (brother)
on fourth voyage
Las Casas on
Roldán and
on Santo Domingo
on second voyage
Columbus, Bianchinetta (sister)
Columbus, Christopher:
as apprentice seaman
arrest of
background of
birth of
Book of Privileges of
Book of Prophecies of
childhood of
cleared of charges against,
complaints about
death of
devaluation of
education and studies of
Franciscan habit worn by
funeral of
as Genoese
as governor
health problems of
interest in exploration
investigation of
languages spoken by
marriage of, see Perestrello, Felipa Moñiz
at monastery
monuments to
mother of
mysticism, fantasies, and irrationality of
name of
name given to places in United States
navigational skills of
physical appearance of
piety of
as Portuguese
remains of
rights and privileges restored to
signature of
titles, awards, and privileges of
as viceroy of discovered lands
will dictated by
Columbus, Christopher, voyages of
canonical schedule followed in
Columbus’s preconceptions and
and difficulties of empire building
exchange of plants and animals during
first, see first voyage
fourth, see fourth voyage
initial ideas for
marking of days in
patronage pursued for
place-naming in
recordkeeping in
second, see second voyage
third, see third voyage
timekeeping in
Columbus, Diego (brother)
Columbus, Diego (son)
Columbus, Domenico (father)
Columbus, Ferdinand (son)
book collection of
on fourth voyage
Indians as viewed by
as scholar
Columbus, Giovanni Pelegrino (brother)
Columbus, Luís (grandson)
Columbus Circle
Coma, Guillermo
Commemoration of the Annunciation
Concepción
Conil
conquistadors
Constantinople
continents:
divergent evolution on
drift of
existence and placement of
copper
Coronel, Pedro Fernández
Corral, Andrés de
Correa, Pedro
Correo, El
Cortés, Hernán
Cosa, Giovanni
Cosa, Juan de la
Costa de la Oreja
Costa Rica
cotton
Crosby, Alfred
Cuba
Cape Cruz
as island vs. part of mainland
map of
Punta Fraile
Cuneo, Michele de
Da Recco, Nicoloso
dead reckoning
De Noli, António
De Soto, Hernando
Deza, Diego
Dias, Bartolomeu
Dias, Vicente
Díaz, Miguel
Díaz de Pisa, Bernal
Díaz de Solís, Juan
Di Cazana, Luca
Diego, Don
Diogo, Infante, Duke of Viseu
disease
syphilis
dogs
Doldrums
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Dragon’s Mouth
Dry Harbour
earth:
continental drift on
existence and placement of continents on
as pear-shaped
roundness of
size of
eclipses, lunar
El Correo
El Dorado
El Golfo de Buen Tiempo
encomienda system
England
Enríquez, Juana
Ephemerides astronomicae (Regiomontanus)
Erasmus, Desiderius
Escobar, Diego de
Escobedo, Rodrigo
Esperanza
exploratory voyages
of Columbus, see Columbus, Christopher, voyages of
Extremadura
farming
Feast of the Epiphany
Female Island
Ferdinand II of Aragon
attitude toward Columbus
Bartholomew Columbus and
Bobadilla and
Caonabó and
Columbus appointed viceroy by
Columbus’s appeal for patronage
Columbus’s final negotiations with
Columbus’s first voyage and
Columbus’s fourth voyage and
and Columbus’s landing on Santa María
Columbus’s “Letter on the First Voyage” to
Columbus’s rights and privileges restored by
Columbus’s second voyage and
Columbus’s third voyage and
and complaints about Columbus
Fernando II and
Germaine de Foix married by
gold and
Indians’ mass suicide and
investigation of Columbus ordered by
marriage and joint rule of
New World settlement plans and
Ojeda and
request for more information from Columbus
&
nbsp; rivals of Columbus commissioned by
Roldán and
slaves and
son of
and treaties with Portugal
Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo
Fernando II of Braganza
Ferrer, Jaime
Fieschi, Bartolomeo
first voyage (1492–1493)
arrival at islands
Columbus’s Letter on
crosses erected
departure from Spain
Ferdinand and Isabella and
first contact with Indians
Indians and
Indians transported to Spain
La Navidad established
land sighted
maps of
men left behind at La Navidad
Niña
Pinta
return to Spain
Santa María
Santa María wrecked
success of
Flores Island
Florida
Fonseca, Juan Rodriguez de
Fontanarossa, Giacomo
Fontanarossa, Susanna
food
cassava
chocolate
Columbian Exchange and
fruit
growing of
Jamaican plum
maize
manchineel
pineapples
yams
Fortaleza
fourth voyage (1502–1504)
Bartholomew Columbus on
battles with Indians
La Capitana
crew on
crypt encountered
departure from Spain
Ferdinand and Isabella and
Ferdinand Columbus on
Gallega
illness among crew
Indians and
Indians’ suicide
lunar eclipse observed
maps of
Mass celebrated
Maya civilization and
mutineers
Ovando and
Quibián and
rescue mission
return to Spain
Santiago de Palos (Bermuda)
settlement built
sharks encountered
ships of
storms encountered
Vizcaína
France
Francis, Saint
Fregoso, Pietro
frigate birds
fruit
Jamaican plum
manchineel
pineapples
Gaeta, Nicolás de
Galicia
Gallega
Ganges
Garay, Francisco de
Genoa
Chios and
clothing in
expansion and transformation of
expatriates from
exploratory voyages by
guilds in
laws in
maritime trade of
marriages in
merchants in
Office of Virtue in
political strife in
prostitution in
ships of
slavery in
Geography (Ptolemy)