Chapter 4-5 Reading Questions Directions: Research the following questions. Answer each question thoroughly and submit on Canvas.

Chapter 4

Who was Marco Polo and how did he encourage travel?
What were three key motives for European expansion?
Explain the difference in the journeys of Portuguese and Spanish explorers.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
How did America get its name?
What caused the Aztec and Inca empires to decline?
What is the difference in exports and imports?
Explain the Columbian Exchange.
Describe the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What were the effects of the slave trade?
Chapter 5

Describe the relationship between Elizabeth Tudor and Philip II.
What was the cause and effects of the French Wars of Religion?
What was the cause and effects of the Thirty Years’ War?
Why was the English Revolution fought?
Who were the Puritans and why did they disagree with James I?
What was the reason and importance about the English Civil War of 1642?
Describe the causes and outcome of the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
Who was William Blackstone and how was he influential?
In what ways did Thomas Hobbes and John Locke create the modern political thought?
What is absolutism, and who was the best example of it in the seventeenth century?
Explain three ways that King Louis XIV ruled with complete control.
What happened to France when King Louis XIV died?
Describe how absolutism is shown in Prussia and Austria.
In what ways did Peter the Great westernize Russia?
How is Mannerism and Baroque art different?