The First Indigenous Americans in Europe

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

1492 marked the beginning of the Colombian Exchange - the transfer of people, goods, ideas and commodities across the Atlantic between Europe and the Americas. We hear a lot about the conquistadors, the settlers, Jesuit priests and colonisers from Spain, Portugal and Britain whose success in the 'New World' was built on the help and enslavement of indigenous people. But what of the indigenous peoples who made the journey in the opposite direction? Many travelled to Europe, some as slaves, others as courtiers, diplomats and even tourists.

Author and Britain's only Aztec historian Caroline Dodds Pennock joins Dan to tell the stories of the Maya who first brought chocolate to the court of Isabella and Ferdinand, the Algonquin diplomats who travelled with Walter Raleigh and took residence in Elizabethan London and the Brazilian King who stopped by Hampton Court palace to see Henry VIII.

Caroline's new book is called 'On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe'

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0:40.3	Christopher Columbus arrived in America in the Caribbean in 1492.
0:45.1	It was the start of a gigantic transfer of culture, of peoples, of goods, of commodities,
0:52.0	of ideas across the Atlantic.
0:54.0	It was the start of the creation of an Atlantic world in which we still in many ways lived
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0:59.1	We hear a lot about the conquistadors, the settlers, the Jesuit priests that went out to the
1:05.5	Americas from Spain, from Portugal, and then from England, France, and elsewhere.
1:09.6	But what about the indigenous peoples of the Americas who end up in Europe and there
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