Prompt:
In the early modern period, European powers began colonizing the Americas and islands in the Pacific Ocean. These same European powers would also increasingly demand more enslaved Africans to labor in the Americas and the Pacific, which would lead to the creation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
According to many historians, this era would usher in the “modern age” of history.
Using 4 key terms from the list* at the bottom of this document, explain:
• The political, technological, and religious factors that led to European colonization OR
• The processes of European colonization OR
• The effects of European colonization
