1492:
An Ongoing Voyage
What Came To Be Called "America"
The Mediterranean World
Christopher Columbus: Man and Myth
Inventing America
Europe Claims America
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1492. Columbus. The date and the name
provoke many questions related to the linking of very different parts
of the world, the Western Hemisphere and the Mediterranean. What was
life like in those areas before 1492? What spurred European expansion?
How did European, African and American peoples react to each other?
What were some of the immediate results of these contacts?
1492: An Ongoing Voyage addresses such questions
by examining the rich mixture of societies coexisting in five areas
of this hemisphere before European arrival. It then surveys the polyglot
Mediterranean world at a dynamic turning point in its development.
The exhibition examines the first sustained
contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors
and settlers from 1492 to 1600. During this period, in the wake of Columbus's
voyages, Africans also arrived in the hemisphere, usually as slaves.
All of these encounters, some brutal and traumatic, others more gradual,
irreversibly changed the way in which peoples in the Americas led their
lives.
The dramatic events following 1492 set
the stage for numerous cultural interactions in the Americas which are
still in progress - a complex and ongoing voyage.
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