Course No. 888

Taught by Marshall C. Eakin
Vanderbilt University
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Why was Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 arguably the most important event in the history of the world?

Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University argues that it gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today by creating a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures: European, African, and Native American.

As the inheritors of this legacy, some 500 years hence, we forget how radically the discovery of the Americas transformed the view of the world on both sides of the Atlantic.

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