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Explore Global 1.1

Exploration on

MyHistoryLab 1.2

How did Global 1.3
ExPloraTioN CHaNGE
THE old aNd NEw 1.4
worlds?

Beginning in the 1400s, explorers left 1.5
Europe and headed west in search
of faster trade routes to Asia to CusToM oF THE iNdiaNs, this woodcut of Italian origin and dating from about
1500 is believed to be the first European depiction of Native Americans in the New World.
keep up with the growing European POPuLATIONS Of PRECONTACT NATIvE AmERICAN ANd 1.6
demand for luxury goods such as COLONIAL POWERS (c. 1500)
silk and spices. In the process, they
encountered huge civilizations in North america Colonial Powers*
the Americas: complex societies that (60–70 million) (29.7 million)
often had high levels of economic
and social interconnectedness. Over
the next two centuries, Europeans
attempted to conquer these Native
American societies by force, set up
colonies, and establish trade ties,
connecting the Old World (Europe,
Asia, and Africa) with the New World North america Colonial Powers
(the Americas). This Age of Global (60–70 million) (29.7 million)
Exploration had a profound impact
on world history and was especially
destructive to societies in the
Americas, as vast numbers of people
in the New World succumbed to Old Copyrighted Pearson Education, Upper Saddle river, Nj
World diseases.

Note: Each figure represents a million people.
*Colonial Powers: England, Spain, Portugal, France

K e y Q u es T io N s use MyHistorylab Explorer to answer these questions:

analysis What global Comparison In what Consequence How did
trade routes existed in the Old ways were societies in the the new trans-Atlantic trade
World prior to the Age of Global Americas interrelated before the connect different parts of the
Exploration? arrival of the Europeans? world?
Map the late medieval trade Map the economic Map the integration of the Old
contacts between Europe, Asia, interconnectedness of the New and New Worlds into a single
and North Africa. World. trading network.

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