Humanities Homework Help

1. How did the larger desire for “New World” commodities increase the demand for African slaves after 1500?

2. What were the three phases of Indian Ocean Trade? What made each distinctive?

3. What role did the Portuguese have in the Indian Ocean trade after 1498? How did they disrupt the trade network that existed?

4. What larger cultural trends existed in the 1500 and 1600s to inspire the Enlightenment?

5. How did the philosophers of the Enlightenment criticize and comment on the need to change society?

6. What were the major causes of the French Revolution? How did the revolutionaries try to change the existing system?