[Encounters and Exploitation]


Before class

      * Read Palmer, 97-104

      * Key terms

	Vasco da Gama 
	Christopher Columbus 
	Potosi
	conquistadores 
	encomienda 
	    
      * Key concept

	nature of Europe's first commercial-colonial empires
		







[Encounters and Exploitation]


In class
	
      * Key terms

	Asante Empire
	Ottoman Empire
	Tokugawa shogunate
	New monarchies
	Prince Henry of Portugal
	Hernando Cortes
	Mercantilism
	Dutch East India Company
	Plantations
	
      * Key concepts
	
	means + motives --> outcomes
	impact c. 1492-1600 of the European presence in the New World
		
      * Lecture