REVIEW & RELATE

1. Compare and contrast the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya. What similarities and differences do you note?

2. How did the societies of North America differ from those of the equatorial zone and the Andes?

3. How and why did Europeans expand their connections with Africa and the Middle East in the fifteenth century?

4. How did early European encounters with West Africans influence Europeans’ ideas about African peoples and reshape existing systems of slavery?

5. What were the short-term consequences in both Europe and the Americas of Columbus’s voyages?

6. How did the Columbian exchange transform both the Americas and Europe?

7. What motivated the Spanish to conquer and colonize the Americas?

8. What were the consequences in Europe of Spain’s acquisition of an American empire?