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  • World History: The Early Modern Period
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    • The Atlantic World in the 1600s
    • Global Trade: Europe, the Middle East and Asia
    • The Impact of Global Trade
    • Changing Political Systems and Colonial Conflicts
    • Absolutist Political Systems
    • Reformation and Counter-reformation in Europe
    • The Spread of Islam in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
    • The Enlightenment
    • Political Revolutions
    • Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

The Atlantic World in the 1600s

1. Overview
2. The sixteenth century
3. Global networks of exchange
4. European colonization
5. The slave trade and the expanding Atlantic economy
6. Visualizing the slave trade
7. Demographic shifts and settlement patterns
8. Spain and Portugal’s global connections
9. Review

Demographic shifts and settlement patterns

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Reading

Read this short article from the Saylor Foundation, below. As you do so, consider the following questions:

  • How did settlement patterns differ in Spanish, French and British colonies in the Americas?
  • How did economic factors influence settlement patterns?
  • How did European settlement impact on Native Americans?

The Saylor Foundation, Comparing Settlement Patterns: New Spain, New France and British North America, 2013.

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