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Name_______________________________________________________________ Period __________ AP World History Unit Intro & Ch 17 Reading Study Guide #1 Pg. 378-390 Notecards: Proto-globalism World Economy Vasco De Gama Christopher Columbus Ferdinand Magellan Dutch East India Company British East India Company 1. What are the years of the Early Modern Era in World History? Pg. 378 2. Name the three “Triggers for Change” in the Early Modern Era. Pg. 378-379 a. b. c. 3. What is proto-globalization? Pg. 380-381 Timeline P. 380-381 4. When was the Ottoman Empire founded? __________ 5. When did Vasco da Gama reach India? __________ 6. What were the years of Magellan’s expedition to circumnavigate the globe? __________ 7. When did Cortez conquer the Aztecs? __________ 8. When did Pizarro conquer the Incas? __________ 9. What were the years of the reign of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent? __________ 10. When were the Ottomans defeated at sea in the Battle of Lepanto? __________ 11. What were the years of the Scientific Revolution in Europe? __________ 12. What were the years of the reign of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia? __________ 13. What were the years of the American Revolution? __________ 14. What was the Columbian Exchange? Pg. 381 Borrowed From Mr. Walker 1 15. Use pages 380-383 – Fill in the following chart: Summarize these – be thorough Period 4: Continuities Period 4: Changes 16. How did the Early Modern Era impact upon the work people did for a living? Pg. 382 17. How did silver impact the world economy? Pg. 384-385 18. What were some of Europe’s limited contacts with the wider world in the Late Middle Ages? Pg. 385-386 19. What technological innovations allowed Europeans to break free from relative isolation? Pg. 386 20. What small country spearheaded the new expeditions? Why? Pg. 386-387 21. Briefly describe some of the experiences of Vasco da Gama in India. Pg. 387 22. What territories were claimed by the Portuguese? Why? e.g. What did they trade? Pg. 387 Borrowed From Mr. Walker 2 23. What major event happened in Spain in 1492? Pg. 387 24. Who led the Spanish efforts to sail to the new world? What was his accidental discovery? Pg. 387 25. Who led the Spanish expedition for a trip around the world? Pg. 387 Map 16.1, Pg. 388 26. Why do you think 2 small European kingdoms accomplished what no major empire/power ever had previously done? 27. Which 3 Northern European powers began to expand and colonize in the late 1500s? Pg. 388 28. What regions did France and England explore? Pg. 388-389 29. Where did the Dutch (principally) explore & trade? Pg. 389 30. What were the roles and functions of the great ‘East India’ companies? Pg. 389 (Read Thinking Historically: Causation & the West’s Expansion, Pg. 390) 31. If you had to choose a single determinism (cultural, technological or economic) as basic to social change which one would you pick? Why? (Reading, Pg. 390) 32. In what ways might the confessed motives of Western explorers and colonists have differed from their real motive? (Reading, Pg. 390) 33. Would the Western explorer even have been aware of the discrepancy found in confessed motives and real motives? (Reading, Pg. 390) Borrowed From Mr. Walker 3