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This course examines Europe’s rise from a relatively peripheral region of Eurasia in 1400 to a center of global imperial and economic networks by the end of the 18th century. Beginning with the 15th and 16th century voyages of exploration, students investigate how interactions between Africans, indigenous Americans, Asians, Europeans, and Pacific Islanders developed over the course of the creation of European trading empires in the Eastern hemisphere and territorial empires in the Americas. Key issues to be addressed include how and why early modern European powers succeeded in setting up global empires, the effects of cross-cultural interactions in the colonies and Europe, and the significance of the exchanges of peoples (including the Atlantic slave trade), material resources, manufactured goods, disease, and ideas that occurred in the wake of the voyages of Columbus, Cabot, and da Gama.
