1. Why were the Portuguese so well positioned for overseas exploration? 2. How were the Spanish able to defeat the Aztecs?
3. What social and economic forces drove the Slave Trade?
4. How were the British able to achieve such a dominant position in Asia?
5. What impact did European colonization have on the colonized?
6. What economic changes occurred in Europe as a result of Mercantilism and Capitalism?

Did the spanish settlers and missions have a positive effect on world history? why, what did they do that was positive? why was the treaty of paris (1763) good for the world/world history? did the plymouth colony have a positive effect on world history? why, what did they do that was positive?

Look at the painting the lictors bring to brutus the bodies of his sons by jacques-louis david (1789). the most likely message this painting sends to french citizens is that one must be prepared to sacrifice their own children to preserve france. loyalty to one’s country stops short of sacrificing one’s own children. brutality is an integral part of revolution and the reign of terror. no one is immune to death, not even the leaders of the revolution.

The battle of fort wagner is most important for which