The Atlantic World,
1492–1800
Previewing Main Ideas
CULTURAL INTERACTION The voyages of Columbus prompted a
worldwide exchange of everything from religious and political ideas to new
foods and plants.
GeographyAccording to the map, what lands were included in the
viceroyalty of New Spain in 1700?
ECONOMICS The vast wealth to be had from colonizing the Americas
sealed the fate of millions of Native Americans and Africans who were forced
to work in mines and on plantations.
GeographyOn which coast of the Americas would enslaved persons from
Africa have arrived?
EMPIRE BUILDING Over the span of several centuries, Europeans
conquered the Americas’ native inhabitants and built powerful American
empires.
GeographyWhat two major Native American empires did the Spanish
conquer in the sixteenth century?
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