LOS AMIGOS HIGH SCHOOL
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
Unit XI: THE AGE OF DISCOVERY (1487-1618)
Voyages of Discovery in an Age of Exploration (342)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
- What motivations did Prince Henry the Navigator
have for sponsoring Portugal's first
voyages of exploration along the African coast?
PEOPLE:
Henry the Navigator Bartolomeu Dias Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus Amerigo Vespucci Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus and the Spanish-American Empire (342-347)
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
- Identify (list) all of the intended and
unintended consequences of Columbus' voyages of
discovery on Europe and the New World?
- What factors allowed the Spanish conquistadores Hern‡n
CortŽs and Francisco Pizarro to
conquer, respectively, the Aztec Empire of Montezuma
II and the Inca Empire
of Atahualpa?
PEOPLE:
Hern‡n
CortŽs Montezuma II Francisco Pizarro
The Atlantic Slave Trade
(347-350 & 523-532)
encomienda,
repartimiento, Black Legend, Middle Passage, Triangle Trade
LITERATURE (* Not in Flash-Cards)
*Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by BartolomŽ de las Casas
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
- For Spain, by the mid-16th century, what provided
the chief source of metallic wealth
from
its mining operations?
- What were the functions of the hacienda and the plantation in Spanish Latin
America
and
the Caribbean?
The Columbian Exchange and the Global Trade Economy
Columbian Exchange, Commercial Revolution, Mercantilism, Price Revolution
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS:
- Was was Europe's "new wealth" - bought
about by the influx of spices and precious metals
from
Spain's American empire - a mixed blessing for European nation-states?
Mercantilism and the Spanish Colonial System (516-523)
Hegemony, Casa de Contrataci—n, British East
India Company, Flota System
GUIDED
READING QUESTIONS:
- Identify and describe each of the four distinct
stages of European contact with the rest of the
world, as described by Kagan, since the time of the Renaissance.
- Why were Europeans able to exert political
dominance over much of the rest of the world for
nearly four-and-one-half centuries before 20th century decolonization?
- Spain, Britain, France, and the Netherlands were the
dominant European imperial powers of
the
18th century. Identify the regions
of the world each of these nation-states controlled.
- Describe mercantilism. What were the basic goals of a typical
mercantilist system? Describe
the
relationship between a home country and its colonies.
- Where were the major flash-points of the British
French rivalry?
- How did the work of Spain's Casa de Contrataci—n
help to maintain Spain's trading monopoly
with
the New World?
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How did the policies of Spain's King Charles III change the relationship
between Spain and
its American colonies? What impact would his policies have on peninsulares
and creoles?