A History of Western Society: Printed Page 460
A History of Western Society, Value Edition: Printed Page 474
Answer the focus questions from each section of the chapter.
What was the Afroeurasian trading world before Columbus? (p. 428)
How and why did Europeans undertake ambitious voyages of expansion? (p. 432)
What was the impact of European conquest on the peoples and ecologies of the New World? (p. 445)
How was the era of global contact shaped by new commodities, commercial empires, and forced migrations? (p. 449)
How did new ideas about race and the works of Montaigne and Shakespeare reflect the encounter with new peoples and places? (p. 456)