A History of World Societies:
Printed Page 487
A History of World Societies Value
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Analyze the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters.
What range of attitudes toward new and unknown peoples did you encounter in this chapter? How do you explain similarities and differences in attitudes toward such peoples?
To what extent did the European voyages of expansion and conquest inaugurate an era of global history? Did this era represent the birth of “globalization”? Why or why not?
How did European motivations for expansion compare to those of the Roman Empire, the Arab world under Islam, or the Mongols in Central Asia?