INDEX
Ababruco
Acul Bay
Africa
Guinea
Treaty of Alcáçovas and
agriculture
Aguado, Juan de
Aguja
Ahuitzotl
Aichi
alcohol
Alexander VI, Pope
Alfonso V, King
Alhambra
Almanach perpetuum (Zacuto)
Alonso, Rodrigo
Alta Vela
America, naming of
Amona
Anacaona
animals
Columbian Exchange and
birds
dogs
horses
hutias
iguanas
manatees
manta ray
monkeys
parrots
peccaries
poisonous
sharks
Antigua
Antigua
Aomaquique
Aragon
Arana, Beatriz de
Arana, Diego de
Arana, Pedro de
Arawak
Archipelago of Las Mulatas
Aristotle
Arráez, Juan
Arzila
Asia
China, see China
Japan (Çipango)
astrolabes
Asunción, La
Atlantic Ocean
Azores
Santa María
Aztec empire
Azua
Bahamas
Long Island
San Salvador
Bahía de Cochinos
Balandras Channel
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de
Ballester, Miguel
Baracoa
Barahona
Barbara, Juan
Barrameda, Sanlúcar de
Barros, João de
Bastidas, Rodrigo de
Beata
Bechalla
Behaim, Martin
Behechio
Belesio, Pietro
Bella Saonese, La
Bermuda
Bermuda (Santiago de
Palos)
Bermúdez, Francisco
Bernáldez, Andrés
Biblioteca Colombina
birds
frigate
parrots
Black Legend
Boa Vista
Bobadilla, Beatriz de
Bobadilla, Francisco de
Boca del Dragón (Dragon’s Mouth)
Bohío
Bonao
Book of Privileges (Columbus)
Book of Prophecies (Columbus)
Borremeo, Giovanni
Brazil
Breviesca, Jimeno
Buil, Father
Burgos
butterflies
Cabo de la Galera
Cabo del Farol
Cabral, Pedro Alvares
cacao (chocolate)
cacique, term
Cadiz
Calderón, Diego
Canary Islands
cannibals
Cáo, Diogo
Caonabó
Cape Cruz
Cape Gracias á Dios
Cape Honduras
Cape Lindo
Cape of Good Hope
Cape St. Vincent
Cape San Miguel
Cape Tiburón
Cape Verde Islands
Cap Haitien
Capitana, La
Carabarü
Cariay
Caribbean
Caribbean Sea
Caribs
Cascais
Casenove, Guillaume de
cassava
Castañeda, Juan de
Castile
Castile, Alonso de
Caxinas
Cayman Islands
Cayo Moa Grande
Cayo Piedras
cemís
Central America
Chanca, Diego Alvarez
Charis
Charles VII, King
Charles VIII, King
chicha
China
Master Paolo and
Quinsay (Hangzhou)
Chios
Chiriqui Lagoon
chocolate
Christianity
Indians and
Jews and
Muslims and
slavery and
Çiamba
Cibao
Ciguayo
cinnamon
Çipango (Japan)
cocoa (chocolate)
cocoa plums
cohoba
Colina
Colombia
Colombo, Juan Antonio
Colón, Diego
Columbian Exchange
Columbus, Bartholomew (brother)
on fourth voyage
Las Casas on
Roldán and
on Santo Domingo
on second voyage
Columbus, Bianchinetta (sister)
Columbus, Christopher:
as apprentice seaman
arrest of
background of
birth of
Book of Privileges of
Book of Prophecies of
childhood of
cleared of charges against,
complaints about
death of
devaluation of
education and studies of
Franciscan habit worn by
funeral of
as Genoese
as governor
health problems of
interest in exploration
investigation of
languages spoken by
marriage of, see Perestrello, Felipa
Moñiz
at monastery
monuments to
mother of
mysticism, fantasies, and irrationality
of
name of
name given to places in United States
navigational skills of
physical appearance of
piety of
as Portuguese
remains of
rights and privileges restored to
signature of
titles, awards, and privileges of
as viceroy of discovered lands
will dictated by
Columbus, Christopher, voyages of
canonical schedule followed in
Columbus’s preconceptions and
and difficulties of empire building
exchange of plants and animals during
first, see first voyage
fourth, see fourth voyage
initial ideas for
marking of days in
patronage pursued for
place-naming in
recordkeeping in
second, see second voyage
third, see third voyage
timekeeping in
Columbus, Diego (brother)
Columbus, Diego (son)
Columbus, Domenico (father)
Columbus, Ferdinand (son)
book collection of
on fourth voyage
Indians as viewed by
as scholar
Columbus, Giovanni Pelegrino (brother)
Columbus, Luís (grandson)
Columbus Circle
Coma, Guillermo
Commemoration of the Annunciation
Concepción
Conil
conquistadors
Constantinople
continents:
divergent evolution on
drift of
existence and placement of
copper
Coronel, Pedro Fernández
Corral, Andrés de
Correa, Pedro
Correo, El
Cortés, Hernán
Cosa, Giovanni
Cosa, Juan de la
Costa de la Oreja
Costa Rica
cotton
Crosby, Alfred
Cuba
Cape Cruz
as island vs. part of mainland
map of
Punta Fraile
Cuneo, Michele de
Da Recco, Nicoloso
dead reckoning
De Noli, António
De Soto, Hernando
Deza, Diego
Dias, Bartolomeu
Dias, Vicente
Díaz, Miguel
Díaz de Pisa, Bernal
Díaz de Solís, Juan
Di Cazana, Luca
Diego, Don
Diogo, Infante, Duke of Viseu
disease
syphilis
dogs
Doldrums
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Dragon’s Mouth
Dry Harbour
earth:
continental drift on
existence and placement of continents
on
as pear-shaped
roundness of
size of
eclipses, lunar
El Correo
El Dorado
El Golfo de Buen Tiempo
encomienda system
England
Enríquez, Juana
Ephemerides astronomicae
(Regiomontanus)
Erasmus, Desiderius
Escobar, Diego de
Escobedo, Rodrigo
Esperanza
exploratory voyages
of Columbus, see Columbus,
Christopher, voyages of
Extremadura
farming
Feast of the Epiphany
Female Island
Ferdinand II of Aragon
attitude toward Columbus
Bartholomew Columbus and
Bobadilla and
Caonabó and
Columbus appointed viceroy by
Columbus’s appeal for patronage
Columbus’s final negotiations with
Columbus’s first voyage and
Columbus’s fourth voyage and
and Columbus’s landing on Santa María
Columbus’s “Letter on the First Voyage”
to
Columbus’s rights and privileges restored
by
Columbus’s second voyage and
Columbus’s third voyage and
and complaints about Columbus
Fernando II and
Germaine de Foix married by
gold and
Indians’ mass suicide and
investigation of Columbus ordered by
marriage and joint rule of
New World settlement plans and
Ojeda and
request for more information from
Columbus
rivals of Columbus commissioned by
Roldán and
slaves and
son of
and treaties with Portugal
Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo
Fernando II of Braganza
Ferrer, Jaime
Fieschi, Bartolomeo
first voyage (1492–1493)
arrival at islands
Columbus’s Letter on
crosses erected
departure from Spain
Ferdinand and Isabella and
first contact with Indians
Indians and
Indians transported to Spain
La Navidad established
land sighted
maps of
men left behind at La Navidad
Niña
Pinta
return to Spain
Santa María
Santa María wrecked
success of
Flores Island
Florida
Fonseca, Juan Rodriguez de
Fontanarossa, Giacomo
Fontanarossa, Susanna
food
cassava
chocolate
Columbian Exchange and
fruit
growing of
Jamaican plum
maize
manchineel
pineapples
yams
Fortaleza
fourth voyage (1502–1504)
Bartholomew Columbus on
battles with Indians
La Capitana
crew on
crypt encountered
departure from Spain
Ferdinand and Isabella and
Ferdinand Columbus on
Gallega
illness among crew
Indians and
Indians’ suicide
lunar eclipse observed
maps of
Mass celebrated
Maya civilization and
mutineers
Ovando and
Quibián and
rescue mission
return to Spain
Santiago de Palos (Bermuda)
settlement built
sharks encountered
ships of
storms encountered
Vizcaína
France
Francis, Saint
Fregoso, Pietro
frigate birds
fruit
Jamaican plum
manchineel
pineapples
Gaeta, Nicolás de
Galicia
Gallega
Ganges
Garay, Francisco de
Genoa
Chios and
clothing in
expansion and transformation of
expatriates from
exploratory voyages by
guilds in
laws in
maritime trade of
marriages in
merchants in
Office of Virtue in
political strife in
prostitution in
ships of
slavery in
Geography (Ptolemy)
Germaine de Foix
Girardi, Lorenzo
globe, see earth
gold
alloys
Bobadilla’s confiscation of
Columbus’s quest for
Columbus’s reports of
Ferdinand and Isabella and
guanín
Indians’ possession of
mines of
Pinzón and
statue of, promised to Columbus
transported to Spain
tribute system
Golden Chersonese (Malay Peninsula)
Golfo de Buen Tiempo, El
Gomera
Gonçalves, Antão
Gorbalán, Ginés de
Gorda, Andrea Martín de la
Gorda, La
Gorricio, Gaspar
Gracias á Dios
Granada
Grand Canary
Grenada
greyhounds
Guacanagarí
Guadalquivir
Guadeloupe
Guaicavanú
Guaiqueri
Guajira Peninsula
Guanabara Bay
Guanaja
guanín
Guantánamo Bay
Guarionex
Guatiguaná
Guayacoa
Guevara, Fernando de
Guiga
Guinea
Gulf of Arrows
Gulf of Cazones
Gulf of Guacanayabo
Gulf of Paria
map of
Gulf Stream
Gutiérrez, Pedro
gyres
Haiti
Acul Bay
Cap Haitien
ceded to France
Moustique Bay
Hangzhou (Quinsay)
Henry VII, King
Henry VIII, King
Henry the Navigator
Hierro
Higuanamá
Higuey
hidalgos
Hispaniola
administration of
Cibao
Columbus’s governorship of
Dominican Republic
Haiti, see Haiti
Indian kingdoms on
map of
Monte Cristi
Ovando appointed governor of
plans for settling
Roldán’s rebellion in
Santo Domingo, see Santo
Domingo
women of
Historie Concerning the Life
and
Deeds of the Admiral Don
Christopher Columbus
(Ferdinand Columbus),
Honduras
horses
hutias
Iberian Peninsula
Icacos Point
Iceland
iguanas
India
India
Indians:
alliances among tribes
cannibalism among
Caribs
Christianity and
clothing and embellishments of
Columbian Exchange and
Columbus’s first contact with
Columbus’s first voyage and
Columbus’s fourth voyage and
Columbus’s second voyage and
Columbus’s third voyage and
destruction of
deterioration of relations between Spanish
and
diet of
disease and
farming of
Ferdinand Columbus’s view of
fishing techniques of
games of
gold possessed by
homes of
kingdoms of
lifestyle of
mass suicide among
music of
population decrease in
pregnancy and childbearing among
prisoners sent to Spain
property given to settlers
rebellions of
religious beliefs and practices of
Roldán and
settlements of
sexuality of
slavery among
as slaves
Taínos
torture of
trade with
transported to Spain
tribute system forced upon
women
work done for Spaniards by
Inquisition
Ireland
Isabella I of Castile
attitude toward Columbus
Bartholomew Columbus and
Bobadilla and
Caonabó and
Columbus appointed viceroy by
Columbus’s appeal for patronage
Columbus’s first voyage and
Columbus’s fourth voyage and
and Columbus’s landing on Santa María
Columbus’s “Letter on the First Voyage”
to
Columbus’s rights and privileges restored
by
Columbus’s second voyage and
Columbus’s third voyage and
and complaints about Columbus
death of
Fernando II and
gold and
illness of
Indians’ mass suicide and
investigation of Columbus ordered by
marriage and joint rule of
New Worl²²²²d settlement plans and
Ojeda and
request for more information from
Columbus
rivals of Columbus commissioned by
Roldán and
slaves and
son of
and treaties with Portugal
will written by
Isla de Gracia
Island of Women
Isthmus of Panama
Jamaica
Blue Mountains
Dry Harbour
Jamaican plum
Japan (Çipango)
Jerusalem
Jews
João II, King
Columbus and
death of
and treaties with Spain
Juan, Prince of Asturias
Juana of Castile
Kublai Khan
La Asunción
La Bella Saonese
Laberinto de las Doce Leguas
La Capitana
La Cartuja
La Gorda
Lagos
La Isabela
failure of
massacre at
Lake Maracaibo
La Navidad
men left behind at
Las Casas, Bartolomé de
Las Casas, Pedro de
La Vaqueños
Ledesma, Pedro de
Leeward Islands
Leonor of Viseu
Lepe, Diego de
Lesser Antilles
Libro de las profecías
(Columbus),
Liguria
Lisbon
Columbus in
Lombardo Cove
Long Island, Bahamas
lunar eclipses
Luxan, Juan de
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Macorix
Madeira Island
Madrid
Magellan, Ferdinand
Magua
Maima
maize
Málaga
Malay Peninsula (Golden , Chersonese)
Male Island
Malocello, Lanzarotto
manatees
manchineel fruit
Mandeville, John
Manicaotex
manta ray
Manuel, King
Manzorro, Rodrigo
Mappa Mundi of 1500
Margarit, Pedro
Margarita
Margarita, Archduchess
Marie Galante
Marien
Marieni
Marmóreo
Martinique
Martyr, Peter
mastic
Matinino
Maviatué
Maya civilization
Medici, Giovanni de’
Medici, Lorenzo de’
Medina del Campo
Medina Sidonia, Duke of
Méndez de Segura, Diego
Milan
Mona Passage
Monastery of the Vertudes
Moñiz, Felipa, see Perestrello,
Felipa Moñiz
Moñiz, Gil Ayres
monkeys
Monte Cristi
Montego Bay
Montserrat
moon, eclipses of
Moors
Morant Cays
Moreno, Juan
Morocco
mosquitoes
Moustique Bay
Mújica, Adrián de
Muñoz, Fernán
music
Muslims
Naturalis historia (Pliny)
Navassa
navigation
astrolabes in
Columbus’s skill in
dead reckoning in
quadrants in
Nevis
Nicaragua
Nice
Nicholas V, Pope
Niña
land sighting and
on return trip to Spain
as Santa Clara on second voyage
Niño, Peralonso
Noli, António de
North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
Nossa Senhora dos Anjos
Noya, Juan de
Nuestra Señora de las Nieves
Odemira
Ojeda, Alonso de
Order of Alcántara
Orinoco
Ortelius, Abraham
Our Lady’s Expectation
Ovando, Nicolás de
Ozama River
Pacific Ocean
Palos
Panama
Isthmus of
Pandiani, Emilio
Pané, Ramon
Pangaea
Paolo, Master
paradise, entrance to
Paria Peninsula
parrots
pearls
peccaries
pepper
pepper, chili
Peraza, Hernán de
Perestrello, Bartolomeo
Perestrello, Felipa Moñiz (wife)
death of
Pérez, Alonso
Pérez, Hernán
Pérez, Rodrigo
Pérez de Luna, Fernand
Pernambuco
Philip the Fair
Pina, Rui da
pineapples
Pingue Channel
Pinta
land sighting and
on return trip to Spain
Pinzón, Arias Pérez
Pinzón, Francisco Martín
Pinzón, Martín Alonso
Pinzón, Vicente Yáñez
Pius II, Pope
Pizarro, Francisco
Pizarro, Gonzalo
Pizarro, Hernando
Pizarro, Juan
plants
agriculture and
cacao (chocolate)
cassava
chili pepper
cinnamon
Columbian Exchange and
cotton
fruit
Jamaican plum
maize
manchineel
mastic
pepper
pineapples
rubber
tobacco
trees
yams
Pliny
Point Arenal
Point Caxinas
Point Erin
poison arrows
poisonous animals
Polo, Marco
Ponce de León, Juan
Porras, Diego
Porras, Francisco
Porto Santo
Portugal
exploration and colonization by
newly discovered lands and
slave trade of
treaties between Spain and
Powerful Lady of Silence
Praia do Paraíso
“Prayer of Columbus” (Whitman)
Prester John
Ptolemy
Puerto Bello
Puerto Bueno
Puerto de Gibara
Puerto de la Concepción
Puerto de la Mar de Sancto Tomás
Puerto de San Nicolas
Puerto Gordo
Puerto Grande
Puerto Limón
Puerto Plata
Puerto Rico
Puerto Santo
Punta del Aguja
Punta de Serafin
Punta Fraile
quadrants
Queen’s Garden
Quinsay (Hangzhou)
Quiribirí
Quintero, Juan
Rancho Viejo Channel
rats
Regiomontanus
repartimiento system
Retrete
Ringmann, Matthias
Río Belén
Río de Desastres
Río de Gracia
Río de Janeiro
Río de Oro
Río Guadalquivir
Río Veragua
Riquelme, Pedro de
Rock of Sintra
Rodríguez, Cristóbal
Roldán, Bartolomé
Roldán, Francisco
rubber
Ruiz, Sancho
Rum Cay
Russo, Gaetano
Sagres
St. Ann’s Bay
Saint-Barthélemy
St. Elmo’s fire
Saint Kitts
Salamanca, Diego de
San Antón
Sánchez, Ambrosio
Sánchez, Juan
Sánchez de Carvajal, Alonso
San Juan
San Martin
San Salvador Island
San Sebastán
Santa Catalina
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz del Sur
Santa Gloria
Santa María
Santa María (first voyage)
land sighting and
wreck of
Santa María
(Maríagalante):
on second voyage)
on third voyage
Santa María de Gracía
Santa María de Guadalupe
Santa María de la Antigua
Santa María de la Cinta
Santa María de la Concepción
Santa María de las Cuevas
Santa María de Montserrate
Santa María la Redonda
Santa Marta
Santangel, Luís de
Santiago de Palos (Bermuda)
Santo Domingo
hurricane in
Santo Tomás
São Miguel (St. Michael)
São Tiago
Sargasso Sea
sargassum
sea cows (manatees)
second voyage (1493–1496)
afflictions suffered by crew
agriculture and
animals carried on
Bartholomew Columbus on
captains and crew members on
Colina
Columbus’s encounter with chieftain
Columbus’s plans for
complaints about Columbus reach Spain
departure from Spain
and difficulties of empire building
Ferdinand and Isabella and
formal orders for
Fortaleza settlement established
Gallega
illness among expedition members
Indian rebellions
Indians and
Indians’ mass suicide
landfall
La Isabela massacre
La Isabela settlement
La Navidad fortress and
lunar eclipse observed
maps of
men left behind
party of men temporarily lost
pay for participants in
physical labor required
return to Spain
rotation of soldier-sailors
Santa María
(Maríagalante)
Santo Tomás fortress built
ships of
slave trade and
splitting of expedition
supplies from Spain
tribute system forced upon Indians
tunic-clothed men sighted
Sezé, Francisco de
Sforza, Ascanio
Sforza, Francesco
sharks
ships
Short Account of the Destruction of the
Indies, A (Las Casas)
Sinamaica Lagoon
slaves:
cacao and
in Genoa
Indians as
Indians’ taking of
in Portugal
Soria, Juan de
South America
Spain
exploration and colonization by
expulsion of Jews from
Inquisition in
newly discovered lands and
treaties between Portugal and
unification of
spices
chili pepper
cinnamon
pepper
Strozzi, Giambattista
syphilis
Taínos
Columbus’s first contact with
Tamoio
Terreros, Pedro de
Testigos
third voyage (1498–1500)
Columbus arrested and returned to
Spain
Columbus’s belief in discovery of entrance
to paradise
El Correo
criminals on
departure from Spain
Ferdinand and Isabella and
financial backing for
first ships sent on
Indians and
investigation of Columbus’s
administration
laziness and lack of dedication of
participants
maps of
Ojeda and
participants in
pay for participants in
plans for
results of
Roldán’s rebellion
Santa María
ships of
stowaways and
tidal wave encountered
La Vaqueños
women on
Thule
tobacco
Tobago
tomatoes
tornado
Torquemada, Tomás de
Torre, Juana de la
Torres, Antonio de
Torres, Luis de
Tortuga
Tortugas, Las
Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo
Touloukaera
Triana, Rodrigo de
trade
Genoa and
with Indians
Travels of Marco Polo, The
(Rustichello da Pisa and Marco Polo)
Treaty of Alcáçovas
Treaty of Tordesillas
trees
people living in
Trinidad
map of
Tristán, Diego
tsunamis
tubers
Tupiniquim
Universalis cosmographia
Urabá
Urirá
Vaeça, Teresa de
Valenciano, Mateo
Valladolid
Vallejo, Alonso de
Vaneque
Vaqueños, La
Vega Real
Velasco, Pedro de
Venezuela
Paria Peninsula
Veragua
Vespucci, Amerigo
Virgin Islands
Visconti, Caterina
Vivaldi, Ugolino
Vivaldi, Vadino
Vizcaína
Waldseemüller, Martin
Whitman, Walt
winds
Windward Islands
wood
Xaraguá
Xerez, Rodrigo de
yams
Yaquimo
Yumbé
Zacuto, Abraham
Zapata Peninsula
Zedo, Fermín
Zorobaró Bay