As the rest of the Americas, the vast social, cultural, and biological diversity that Latin America society still embodies today had its origins in its long and complex colonial history. This course is designed as an introductions to some of the main themes of colonial Latin American history. We will start our journey in Europe, Africa, and the Americas before Columbus’ arrival in the Caribbean. We will then follow both the imperial forces that shaped the colonial experience as well as the effect that individuals and groups of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans had in the society and territory as a whole. We will end in the Age of Revolutions with the impact that the Haitian Revolution, the Independence movement in Latin America, and with an assessment of the legacies of the colonial period in the region today.