1. European The first Trade Empires
Chapters 3 and 4

3. Growing Trade with the Orient.

4. Italian Merchants Control of Trade

5. New Inventions Assist World Trade

7. Portugal Explores New Trade Routes

9. Portugal’s Commercial Empire

11. Spain Challenges Portugal

13. The Dutch Build an Empire

15. The Ming Dynasty

16. Qing Dynasty

17. Patterns of Chinese Culture

18. European Intrusion China Isolationism

19. Japanese Political Structure

20. Japan Turns to Isolation

21. Columbus Focuses West.

22. Explorers Build on Columbus’ Discoveries

23. Spain Conquers a New World Patterns of Conquest

24. The Catholic Church and the New World

25. Structures of the Spanish Empire
Encomienda
Mestizo
Slavery

26. New France

27. English Colonial Expansion

28. The Dutch in the New World

29. Colonies in the Caribbean

30. Impact on the Native Americans

31. England Battles France and the Dutch

32. Slavery in the World

33. Factors Favoring African Slavery.

34. Middle Passage

35. Triangular Trade Routes

36. Slavery Impacts the Americas.

37. The Columbian Exchange

38. Prevailing Economic Ideas Mercantilism

39. Early Forms of Capitalism Joint Stock Companies