pt. I. lecture 1. Three peoples collide ; lecture 2. The Native Americans ; lecture 3. Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas ; lecture 4. Europeans and Africans ; lecture 5. European overseas expansion ; lecture 6. Christopher Columbus, path to conquest ; lecture 7. Stepping stones, the conquest of the Caribbean ; lecture 8. The rise of Hernan Cortes ; lecture 9. The fall of Montezuma ; lecture 10. Conquistadors and Incas ; lecture 11. The frontiers of empire ; lecture 12. Portuguese Brazil, the King's plantation
pt. II. lecture 13. The Atlantic slave trade ; lecture 14. Haciendas and plantations ; lecture 15. American silver and Spanish galleons ; lecture 16. The sword and the cross ; lecture 17. New peoples, new religions ; lecture 18. Late arrivals, the English in North America ; lecture 19. Conquest by dispossession ; lecture 20. Late arrivals, the French in the Americas ; lecture 21. Pirates of the Caribbean ; lecture 22. Clash of cultures, victors and vanquished ; lecture 23. The rise of "American" identities ; lecture 24. The Americas, collisions and convergence.