The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)Chapter 12:
Faith, Fortune, and FameCritical Thinking Questions- The World Imagined
- Why did Europeans covet the products of the east? Which ones did they seek and why?
- How did Europeans imagine the peoples who lived outside of the Mediterranean?
- What was the significance of Ptolemy's map? What were its shortcomings?
- The World Discovered
- What drove Europeans to explore the world?
- What innovations in navigation aided the explorations of the Europeans? What improvements were made in ship-building?
- What gains in exploration were made by the Portuguese?
- What did Columbus discover on his voyages? What were his misconceptions about what he had found?
- What conflict did the Treaty of Tordesillas resolve? What were the conditions agreed to by Spain and Portugal?
- How did England, France, and the Netherlands join in the race to explore the world?
- Confrontation of Cultures
- How and when did people first arrive in the Americas?
- How did agriculture lead to the development of agricultural societies with highly concentrated populations? What were the key crops and where were these societies located?
- What happened during the course of the earliest encounters between Europeans and Americans?
- What were European impressions of Amerindian culture and customs?
- Why was Malinche important for Cortés?
- How did Europeans conquer the Aztec and the Inca empires? What advantages did the Europeans possess?
- How did Europeans meet their goals of enriching their home countries?
- What criticism did Las Casas make of the colonial enterprise? What solutions did he propose?
- Why was slavery introduced to the New World?
- How did the slave trade affect the New World? How did it affect Africa?
- How did missionaries approach the challenge of converting peoples across the world?
- How and why was Christianity transformed in the New World?
- The World Market and Commercial Revolution
- How and why did a world market emerge?
- How did inflation cause stagnation and yet stimulate economic activity?
- What were the strategies and innovations of early capitalists?
- How did mercantilist governments approach the problem of governing the colonies? What were their policies?
- Why was banking important to early commercial capitalism? What were the responsibilities of bankers?
- What were Spain's financial and political mistakes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
- How did work change in this period? How were women's lives transformed?
- How did piracy evolve as trade quickened?
- The World Transformed
- How did European culture transform other peoples' lives and cultures? How did the New World transform Europe and Europeans?
- What products were especially important in the exchange between Europeans and others?
- How did Europeans correct their highly imaginative and inaccurate views of the world as they gained more familiarity with other environments and cultures?
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