How did Portugal’s early explorations influence history?
Why did European rulers want to spread Christianity?
How does technology affect the spread of culture and the preservation of cultural identity?
How did the interactions between colonizers and native peoples impact how each on saw the other and the world?
What are the lasting impacts of European colonization?
Enduring Understandings
As Europeans explored, they came into contact with other races of people, whom they exploted for commercial gain. This resulted from and reinforced racism and an attitude of white supremacy.
Advances in technology helped make exploration possible.
The effects of colonization on native people. (Spanish and Portuguese in Latin and South America and other European countries in North America.)
The triangular trade had an important and devestating impact on enslaved Africans in the Americas as well as on the West African culture and population.