1. CHAPTER 17 GLOBAL INTERACTIONS: EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD ECONOMY, 1400-1650

2. The Iberian Golden Age Conditions Favoring Iberian Expansion Staking Claims The Developing Portuguese Empire

3. The Portuguese and Africa The Portuguese in West Africa The Portuguese and the Kongo Kingdom The Portuguese in East Africa

4. The Growth of New Spain The Development of Spanish South America

5. Iberian Systems in the New World The General Nature of Regimes Iberian Economies in America Iberian Effects on Amerindian Life Spanish Colonial Society and Culture

6. Beginnings Northern European Expansion The Shifting Commercial Revolution The Dutch Empire The French Empire The English Empire

7. YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND The explorers who opened up new routes and discovered new continents. The conquistadors, who conquered the native populations, which often suffered acutely.

8. YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND How European countries set up their colonial empires. The beginning of the Commercial Revolution with the rise of capitalism. The ongoing effects in the modern world of the actions by European explorers and colonizers.