Critical Thinking Questions
- What were the consequences of the religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
- What types of labor systems were used in the Americas? Did systems of unfree labor serve more than an economic function?
- What is meant by the Columbian Exchange? Who was affected the most by the exchange?
- What were the various goals of the colonial European powers in the expansion of their empires? To what extent were they able to achieve these goals? Where did they fail?
- On the whole, what was the impact of early European exploration on the New World? What was the impact of the New World on Europeans?
