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Question 1.

Tell the story of world trade from the middle of the fifteenth century through the exploration/conquest of the Americas.

1. Describe the Afro-Eurasian trade world before the voyages of Columbus.

2. Explain why and how Europeans undertook ambitious voyages of expansion.

3. Describe how conquest affected indigenous populations and brought about a new era of economic and cultural exchange, commercial empires, and forced migrations.

4. Identify how new encounters shaped cultural values and beliefs in Europe and the New World.

Question 2.

Tell the story of the so-called "Scientific Revolution" and the "Enlightenment," and discuss their relationship to other cultural changes in Europe/the Americas.

1. Describe what was revolutionary in the new attitudes toward the natural world.

2. Explain how a new spirit of critical and rational thinking affected ideas about society and human relations.

3. Describe the impact new ways of thinking had on monarchical absolutism and those under its rule.

4. Identify how the growth of consumerism and the Atlantic economy interacted with Enlightenment ideas.