A History of Western Society, Volume 2

Chapter 14: European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650 World Contacts Before Columbus      The Trade World of the Indian Ocean.- The Trading States of Africa .- The Ottoman and Persian Empires      Genoese and Venetian Middlemen.-  The European Voyages of Discovery.- Causes of European Expansion     Technology and the Rise of Exploration.- The Portuguese Overseas Empire.- The Problem of Christopher Columbus .- Later Explorers.- Spanish Conquest in the New World .- Early French and English Settlement in the New World.- Primary Source 14.1: A Portuguese Traveler Describes Swahili City-States of East Africa.- Primary Source 14.2: Columbus Describes His First Voyage.- Primary Source 14.3: Doña Marina Translating for Hernando Cort  & # 233;s During His Meeting with Montezuma.- Primary Source 14.4: Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among Natives The Impact of Conquest .- Colonial Administration.- Impact of European.- Settlement on Indigenous Peoples.- Life in the Colonies.- The Columbian Exchange.- Primary Source 14.5: Tenochtit l& #225;n Leaders Respond to Spanish Missionaries Europe and the World After Columbus .- Sugar and Slavery.- Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects.- The Birth of the Global Economy Changing Attitudes and Beliefs.- New Ideas About Race.- Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity.-  William Shakespeare and His Influence Review and Explore — Learning Curve ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENT Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja Mapping the Past: Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Living in the Past: Foods of the Columbian Exchange.-  Chapter 15: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589–1725 Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding.- The Social Order and Peasant Life.- Famine and Economic Crisis.- The Thirty Years’ War.- Achievements in State-Building.- Warfare and the Growth of Army Size.- Popular Political Action Absolutism in France and Spain.- The Foundations of Absolutism.- Louis XIV and Absolutism.- Life at Versailles.- French Financial Management Under Colbert .- Louis XIV’s Wars.- The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century     Primary Source 15.1: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, 1701.- Primary Source 15.2: Letter from Versailles Absolutism in Austria and Prussia.- The Return of Serfdom in the East.- The Austrian Habsburgs.- Prussia in the Seventeenth Century.- The Consolidation of Prussian Absolutism The Development of Russia and the Ottoman Empire.- The Mongol Yoke and the Rise of Moscow.