1.  When it came to building empires in the Americas, the Europeans had  some advantages.  Explain what they were, and how they served as  advantages.

2. What was the Columbian exchange, and how was it global in nature?

3.  How did the Spanish transform the land once controlled by the  Aztecs and Inca into a colonial empire?   (think–how did the Spanish  change things?)

4. How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those in the southern colonies of North America?

5. How were the colonies created by the British in North America  different than those that had been established by the Spanish and  Portuguese in Latin America?