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)