Conflict
Environmental change
Economic conditions
Religious differences
Political conditions
Social conditions
Consider those issues again in light of what you’ve learned about European exploration and expansion. Which of the factors listed above caused people to move during the period of new global interactions from the 1400s through the 1700s?
How did European colonization affect Native Americans?
What was the impact of the slave trade?
How did the Commercial Revolution and the free enterprise system affect Europe and the Americas?
How does the movement of people, culture, goods, plants, animals, and ideas from the 1400s through the 1700s still shape the world you live in today?