Q1. How were small groups of Spaniards able to conquer the Aztec and Inca Empires?
Q2. What was the basis of the mercantilist of economics? What was the relationship between the colonial economies and those of the homelands?
Q3. What was the relationship between conquistadores and missionaries in Spain's American colonies?
Q4. Describe the economies of Spanish America and Brazil. What were the similarities and differences, between them and the British and French calm in the Caribbean and North America? What nil, did the various colonies play in the transatlantic economy?
Q5. Explain the chief factors involved in the Columbian Exchange. Which animals from Eta, flourished in the Americas? Why? Which American plants produced broad impact in Europe and elsewhere in the world?
Q6. Why did forced labor and slavery develop in tropical colonies? How was slavery in the Americas different from slavery in earlier societies?
Q7. What historical patterns emerged in the slave trade(s) within and out of Africa? Consider the gender and age distribution of slaves, their places of origin, and their destinations.
Q8. Compare and contrast the Oriental and Occidental slave trades. What was the effect of the transatlantic slave trade on West African societies? On East Africa? What role did Africans themselves play in the slave trade?