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Students will identify worldwide changes between 1450 and 1750. They will describe the events that led to worldwide change between 1450 and 1750 and explain how they caused it.

Students will analyze social, political and economic motivations for European exploration.

Students will describe how new technological advances influenced impacted European exploration and transoceanic trade routes and analyze how shifts in global trade networks impacted the Ottoman Empire.

Since ancient times, goods and ideas have traveled around the globe through trade. Trade is the exchange of goods and services from one person to another. These cross-cultural exchanges and encounters had both negative and positive effects on the societies within these trade networks. Using the information from the documents and your knowledge of global history, explain the effects of trade in history and argue whether the benefits of trade outweigh the costs

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Students will analyze the political, economic, cultural, and geographic impacts of Spanish colonization.

Students will trace major motivations for European interest in exploration and oceanic trade, including the influence of Isabella and Ferdinand.

Students will describe and analyze the impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Old World and the New World.