AP World History: Modern / Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections (c. 1450–1750)
4.8 Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750
Notes
Change: global trade linked all continents; European empires grew; the Columbian Exchange. Continuity: land-based empires stayed powerful; agriculture and coerced labor continued.
Practice
A major change from 1450 to 1750:
Linking the Americas.
Which continued from before 1450?
Serfdom, slavery.
Land-based empires like the Ottomans:
Continuity.
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