AP World
Have out your reading notes for Chapters 24- 25,
and your SPICE chart.
No Write Now-Blue
Quick Write Rewrite
You will approximately 10 minutes to look over your thesis and
rewrite it.
Quick Write Thesis:
• Analyze the social and economic transformations
that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of
new contacts among Western Europe, Africa, and
the Americas from 1450 t0 1750 CE. Include
continuities as well.
Key Concepts
• 4.1 Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange
• 4.2 New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
• 4.3 State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion
Essential Question
What effect did European exploration and
expansion have on the economic, political, cultural
and social landscape of the eastern and western
hemispheres?
Topical Questions:
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How did Europeans build new empires from 1450-1750?
How did Europeans govern their new colonies?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
How can I use primary documents to better understand sugar
plantations?
Crash Course Watch the Crash Course Video
on the Columbian Exchange
• 3 new things for Europeans
• 2 new things for Americans
• 1 lasting impact of the Columbian Exchange
How is the World Tied Together?
The History of Sugar
• Working with a partner, complete the
analysis of the primary source documents
on sugar plantations in the Americas.