{"id":2307,"date":"2026-06-12T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=2307"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:18:25","slug":"map-of-the-atlantic-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/map-of-the-atlantic-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Atlantic World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2297\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2297\" class=\"wp-image-2297 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cantino_planisphere_1502-1000x470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cantino_planisphere_1502-1000x470.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cantino_planisphere_1502-250x117.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cantino_planisphere_1502-500x235.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cantino_planisphere_1502-768x361.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cantino_planisphere_1502-1536x721.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cantino_planisphere_1502-2048x962.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cantino_planisphere_1502-624x293.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By the fifteenth century, the Portuguese had established forts and colonies on islands and along the rim of the Atlantic Ocean; other major European countries soon followed in step. An anonymous cartographer created this map known as the Cantino Map, the earliest known map of European exploration in the New World, to depict these holdings and argue for the greatness of his native Portugal. Cantino planisphere (1502), Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Italy. Wikimedia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The elaborate Sistema de Castas revealed one of the less-discussed effects of Spanish conquest: sexual liaisons and their progeny. Casta paintings illustrated the varying degrees of intermixture between colonial subjects, defining them for Spanish officials. Race was less fixed in the Spanish colonies, as some individuals, through legal action or colonial service, \u201cchanged\u201d their race in the colonial records. Though this particular image does not, some casta paintings attributed particular behaviors to different groups, demonstrating how class and race were intertwined.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elaborate Sistema de Castas revealed one of the less-discussed effects of Spanish conquest: sexual liaisons and their progeny. Casta paintings illustrated the varying degrees of intermixture between colonial subjects, defining them for Spanish officials. Race was less fixed in the Spanish colonies, as some individuals, through legal action or colonial service, \u201cchanged\u201d their race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2307\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}