Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · Cal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4F · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area D6DescriptionThis course introduces the student to the history of colonial Latin America from 1492 through the European conquest, he creation of new empires and their subsequent fall in the first two decades of the 19th century. Students will examine how geography, the encounter between pre-Columbian cultures and Spanish/Portuguese colonialism, the introduction of African slavery, and the movements for independence shaped Latin America and its inhabitants. The connections of past and present in the Latin American world including early Latin-American history from pre-Columbian indigenous cultures through the early-nineteenth century independence movements will also be explored.Usually HeldWed 9:35am–11:00am 