1. European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650
Chapter 15
European Exploration and Conquest,
1450–1650

2. World Contacts Before Columbus
The Trade World of the Indian Ocean
Africa
The Ottoman and Persian Empires
Genoese and Venetian Middlemen

3. The European Voyages of Discovery
Causes of European Expansion
Technological Stimuli to Exploration
The Portuguese Overseas Empire
The Problem of Christopher Columbus
Later Explorers
New World Conquest

4. Europe and the World After Columbus
Spanish Settlement and Indigenous Population Decline
Sugar and Slavery
The Columbian Exchange
Silver and the Economic Effects of Spain’s Discoveries
The Birth of the Global Economy
Spain’s Global Empire

5. Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
New Ideas About Race
Michel de Montaigne and Cultural Curiosity
Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature