Q1. What were the similarities of the cultures of indigenous peoples in America in 1492, and how did they differ from the culture of Europe at the time?
Q2. How did the Olmec, Aztec, Inca, Maya, and North American Indians differ in their ways of life and cultural achievements? How did their particular circumstances-geography, history, or the accomplishments of the societies that had preceded them, for example-serve to shape their particular traditions and cultures?
Q3. What were the lasting effects of the Crusades? In what ways did they provide opportunities - both negative and positive - for cross-cultural encounters and exchanges?
Q4. What were the various goals of the colonial European powers in the expansion of their empires? To what extent were they able to achieve these goals? Where did they fail?