43.209 Colonial Latin America

UML, Fall 2003

Prof. Carlsmith

 

Map Terms for Colonial Latin America[1]

 

Mexico/Yucatan

Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of California

Pacific Ocean

Yucatan Peninsula

Chichen Itza

Baja California

Rio Grande

Veracruz

Oaxaca

Mexico City/Tenochtitlan

Lake Texcoco (now absent)

Zacatecas (mine)

Merida

Acapulco

Aztec Empire (approx.)

 

Caribbean

Cuba

Bahamas

Hispaniola

Puerto Rico

Haiti

Florida

Havana

  

South America

Brazil

Rio de Janeiro

Sao Paulo

Bahia

Amazon River

Peru

Lake Titicaca

Inca Empire (approx.)

Lima

La Paz

Cuzco

Potosí (mine)

Buenos Aires

Patagonia

Quito

Orinoco River

Parana River

Cape Horn

Pampas (grasslands)

Andes Mtns.

Amazon rainforest (approx.)


 

[1] For useful maps, see Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling, Colonial Lives (Oxford UP, 2000), pp. xv-xviii; Benjamin Keen and Keith Haynes, Colonial Latin America, vol. 1 (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000), pp. xiv; on the Web, see http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas.html, or for blank maps, see http://abcteach.com/Maps/latamer.htm  or http://www.southernct.edu/~lukinbea/latinamerica.pdf (this is a PDF file)