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WHAP CH 23 Guided Reading Questions
1. What was the major difference in trade during 500-1500 and
the period beginning after 1500?
2. What were the Europeans motives for overseas exploration?
Of all these motives, which took precedence?
3. What new knowledge and technologies enabled fifteenth
century sailors to make long overseas voyages? Where did
much of this new technology come from?
4. How were the English and Dutch trading companies organized
and administered? How were these companies able to
establish themselves in Asia?
5. Compare the Spanish conquest of the Philippines with the
Dutch conquest of Indonesia. What kind of colony emerged in
each case?
6. What factors led to the Seven Years War in the eighteenth
century? What was the global outcome of that event?
7. List some positive and negative aspects of the Columbian
Exchange. Give one specific example for each, and where it
applied.
8. Overall what was the demographic impact of European
contact with what they called the “New World”?
CH 24 Guided Reading Questions
1. What were Martin Luther’s complaints with the Catholic
Church, and what reforms did he advocate?
2. By the end of the sixteenth century, which European countries
remained Catholic and which had become Protestant? Choose
one protestant country and discuss its conversion.
3. What are some of the reasons suggested for the widespread
persecution of suspected witches in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
4. Why was Charles the V, the Holy Roman Emperor, unable to
keep his empire?
5. What are some common characteristics of new monarchs in
the early modern era?
6. What factors encouraged the evolution of a constitutional
government in England and the Netherlands? Who retained
and absolute monarchy?
7. How did Louis XIV maintain control over the nobles of
France? How was his government structured to ensure this?
8. What factors led to the population growth of Europe between
1500-1700? What is urbanization?
9. What are the characteristics of Capitalism, and what are some
of the social changes which resulted because of it? Include
gender roles.
10.
Note the contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and
Galileo. Who do you think took the greatest risk, and who
made the greatest contribution?
11.
What is Isaac Newton’s role in the Enlightenment?
12.
What were the principle concerns of the Philosophes of
the Enlightenment? What solutions did they propose? What
place did women have in the Enlightenment?
Ch 25 Guided Reading Questions
1. What became of the Taino people of the Caribbean?
2. Discuss the encomienda system.
3. How did Pizarro conquer the Inca Empire with 180 men?
4. What kinds of communities were established in the New
World Colonies of Portugal and Spain? How were they
organized and governed?
5. What was the relationship of French and English settlers to
the Native populations?
6. What was the basis of the economy in the Spanish empire?
Who profited most?
7. What was the basis of the economy in the North American
colonies?
8. When and how did slavery come to North America? How
did it impact the societies there?
9. What was distinctive about European exploration of
Australia? Discuss the Native population there.