Chapter Overview:
This chapter focuses in on transoceanic encounters and global connections.
- This chapter begins by explaining the motives for exploration.
- Then it goes on to the technological innovations that made this exploration more feasible.
- Next, it explains the exploration of the Atlantic by the Europeans.
- Then it explains how European exploration took off from there to the Pacific.
- It transitions to the trading posts throughout Eurasia and the powerful joint-stock companies of Europe.
- It then moves on to the European conquests in Southeast Asia.
- Next, it explains the commercial rivalries between these countries and how it led to the Seven Years' War.
- This then branches out to the Columbian Exchange and how it impacted the world.
- It concludes with the origins of global trade.
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Mackenzie, John. "Home." BritishBattlescom. BritishBattles.com, June 2011. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.
Mackenzie, John. "Home." BritishBattlescom. BritishBattles.com, June 2011. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.