Can you answer the following questions about the unit we are studying?

  1. Why were European countries motivated to explore the New World?

  2. What were the motives of European nations as they settled the Americas?

  3. How did Exploration lead to a growing global interdependence?

  4. What were the lasting consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

  5. How did European exploration and settlement of the Americas change life for the indigenous peoples?

Voyages of Exploration

Columbian Exchange and Colonization

Trans Atlantic Slave Trade