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What changes in European societies of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries enabled their leaders to attempt to expand their economic and political authority into other parts of the world? Why did they initially focus on Africa? |
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What were some of the factors that contributed to the rise of the Atlantic slave trade during this era? |
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What were some of the characteristics of the Spanish empire in the Americas? What factors accounted for its success? |
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What was the Protestant Reformation? What role did it play in the development of European impulses toward expansion during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? |
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Why did England initially undertake its expansionary efforts? What factors account for its failure to establish a successful colony in the Americas during the 1500s? |
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