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| Aztec Civilization:
--Washington State University website on the Aztecs --Univ. of Minnesota Duluth website on ancient Middle America |
| Overviews of the Maya civilization
--(from the Canadian Museum of Civilization) -- from a Cancun society: |
| Inca Civilization:
--Minnesota State University-Mankato's website on Inca --PBS Nova's website on excavation of Inca civilization --National Geographic website on an excavation of Inca civilization |
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| Constitution of the Iroquois Nation |
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| An interactive overview of the regional population composition in early 17th century North America |
| The Mayflower Compact, 1620 |
| John Winthrop's
1630 "City on a Hill" sermon, which he delivered a
missionary statement to the settlers establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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| The text of 17th
century laws which began to discriminate and separate
African Americans from the rest of the American population, as the colonies clearly shifted from using indentured servants to slaves as laborers |
| A copy of an advertisement
announcing the sale of a shipment of enslaved
Africans |
| The blueprint of the dimensions of the holding quarters of a slave ship |
| 1788 account of slave
ship surgeon Alexander Falconbridge's observations
on the slave trade |
| Matter-of-fact diary
account of handling slaves by Virginia planter William
Byrd, 1709-1711 |
| 1732 "Notices"
of runaway slaves (published so that they might be returned
to their owners) |
| 1739 Letter
from South Carolina Lieutenant Governor to officials in England,
informing them of the Stono slave rebellion |
| Official South
Carolina legislature statement rewarding those slaves who
helped capture the 1739 Stono slave rebellion insurgents |
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