1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (100 page)

Azúa de Compostela

bacaba

bacuri

Bad Earth, The
(Smil),
5.1

Bahamas

“Bahay Kubo”

Balboa,
see
Núñez de Balboa

Balbuena, Bernardo de

balls,
7.1
,
7.2

bamboo

banana

Banaue

bandeirante

Bangladesh

Ban Namma

Ban Songma

Bañuelos y Carrillo, Hieronimo de,
4.1
,
4.2

Barbados,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4

yellow fever in

Barbary pirates

barbers

barcino

barley,
5.1
,
6.1

Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Merced

bats,
9.1
,
10.1

Battle of Okeechobee

Bauhin, Gaspard

bauxite,
9.1
,
9.2

Bayano,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Bay of All Saints

beans,
1.1
,
6.1

beaver,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1

beeswax

Beeton, Isabella

Beijing,
1.1
,
5.1
,
8.1

Belém do Pará,
7.1
,
7.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1

Belgian Congo

Belgium,
6.1
,
6.2

Belize

Benavides, Miguel de,
4.1
,
10.1

Benin

Berbers

beriberi

Berkeley Hundred,
2.1
,
10.1

Bermuda,
2.1
,
3.1

Beyer, Henry Otley

Biogeochemistry of Vertebrate Excretion, The
(Hutchinson),
6.1

bio-piracy

bison

Blackfeet

blight,
see
potato blight

blight units

Bolivia,
1.1
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

independence of

boll weevil,
6.1
,
6.2

Bonaparte, Napoleon

bone meal

Booker, Josiah

Booker Brothers,
3.1
,
3.2

Bordeaux mixture

Borneo

Bosch, Carl

Botany of Desire, The
(Pollan),
6.1

Bouillon, Godfrey of

Bramble Club

Brasília

brass coins

Braudel, Fernand

Brazil,
3.1
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
9.8

abolition of slavery in

Afro-Brazilian religions of

highways built in

maroons in

quilombos
in,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
9.8

rubber industry of,
7.1
,
7.2

slavery abolished in

slavery in,
3.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1

sugar plantations in

Brazilian broad beans

bread

Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
(Las Casas),
8.1

British Anti-Slavery Society

British Guiana

bronze coins,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Brook, Timothy,
2.1
,
5.1

Brummell, Beau

Bry, Theodorus de

Bryggman, Erik

Buenos Aires,
3.1
,
8.1

buffalo bur,
6.1
,
6.2

Bulalacao,
10.1
,
10.2

Bullock, William

Bull Run, Battle of

bumba-meu-boi

Burma

bushmasters

Byrd, William

Cabagay-Jano, Chiquita “Ching”

Cabagay-Jano, Rudmar,
10.1
,
10.2

caboclinhos

cachaça

Cairo

Calabar,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.1

calcium arsenate

Caldeira

Caldeirinha

caltrops,
9.1
,
9.2

Cambodia

cambujo

Cameroon

Campbell, “Jock”

Canada

Canary Islands,
1.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

Candomblé,
9.1
,
9.2

Canner, Phoebus

cannibalism

Cape Verde Islands

capoeira

carbon dioxide,
1.1
,
4.1

Carib

Caribbean,
3.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5

Caribbean Amazon

Caribbean sugar

Caribe Indians

Carlos V, King of Spain,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4

Carolina,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
9.1

malaria in,
3.1
,
10.1

carrot

Cartagena

cartels

Carter, Landon

Carter, Sukey

Casement, Roger

cashew

casta
paintings,
8.1
,
8.2

casta
system

Castilla elastica

Castillo Grajeda, José del

castizo,
8.1
,
8.2

Catalonia

Catarina de San Juan (Mirra),
8.1
,
8.2

Catawba (Indian group)

Catholicism

cattle,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2

caucho
(rubber type),
7.1
,
7.2
,
10.1

cave dwellings (
yaodong
),
5.1
,
5.2

Cavite,
4.1
,
4.2

Cayenne

Cebu,
1.1
,
1.2

ceiba

center of diversity

Central Africa

Central Suriname Nature Reserve

Chagres River,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Chakchiuma

Champa rice