North America, 23 Aug 1500: Fall of Columbus
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Political map of North America & the Caribbean on 23 Aug 1500 (The Age of Columbus: Fall of Columbus), showing the following events: John Cabot’s final voyage; Columbus’ third voyage; Ojeda’s first voyage; Nueva Cádiz; Bobadilla’s governorship.

Middle

Mississippian

G r e a t P l a i n s

p e o p l e s

C e n t r a l A l g o n q u i a n p e o p l e s

T a í n o

c h i e f d o m s

G r e a t B a s i n

p e o p l e s

Northwest

Plateau

Peoples

Pacific Northwest Coast
Peoples

C a l i f o r n i a p e o p l e s

N o r t h e r n
A t h a b a s k a n
p e o p l e s

Iroquois

Confederacy

Eastern Algonquian
peoples

Southwest
peoples

C h i b c h a n
p e o p l e s

Fernandina / Cuba

Pueblo
villages

South

Appalachian

Mississippian

Santo
Domingo(Sp.)

V e n e z u e l a

H i s p a n i o l a

Viceroyalty of
The Indies(Sp.)

San Juan
Bautista

Plaque-
mine
culture

Xoconochco(Aztec)

Sta. María de Guadalupe

Once Mil
Virgenes

Sta. María de la Antigua

Cubagua(Sp. ctrl)

May–?? 1498John Cabot
possibly returns
to New World

May–Aug 1498Columbus explores
South American coast

May–Sep 1499Ojeda explores
Venezuelan coast

1500Spanish establish
outpost on Cubagua

23 Aug 1500Bobadilla assumes
governorship of Indies;
arrests Columbus

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