1. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, why was trade with Japan so important for the Dutch? What were some economic and cultural benefits that resulted from the Dutch-Japanese connection?
2. List and explain at two (2) of the key ideas of the Protestant Reformation
3. Where were Muslim and Buddhist missionaries most active in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
4. How did their encounters with non-Western cultures transform the way Westerners thought about the world?
5. How was the rise of Western science in the seventeenth century a paradigm shift?
6. What were the sources of Spanish power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why was Spain unable to sustain its supremacy in Europe?
7. How did the Manchus conquer China and establish the Qing dynasty? List two (2) ways that the early Qing dynasty attempted to unite China?
8. List two (2) economic reasonsand two (2) political reasons used to justify and support the long existence of the Atlantic slave trade.
9. How did slave communities in the Americas create autonomous institutions?How did Black people in the Americas craft their own customs and norms of behavior? Why did laws designed to protect slaves mostly fail?
10. Why did populations begin to rise in most parts of the world in the eighteenth century? How did increased health care and urbanization affect demographic trends?
11. Why did the economic disparity between China and India and the West begin to narrow in the eighteenth century?
12. How was the Enlightenment global in its ideas and effects? How did the Encyclopedia promote Enlightenment?