World Perspectives Week 1 Reading Questions

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Each answer should be roughly one or two paragraphs. Use examples and/or quotes from the textbook to support your answers. Type in the answers directly below each question.  Save and submit the document as “week 1 reading questions your last name” (for example, week 1 reading questions gerlach). 

1. How were “the Great Dying” and “the Colombian Exchange” good examples of early globalization?

2. How did the British settler colonies in North America differ from the colonies established in Central and South America?

3. Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than the Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires?