HIST 222 - Age of Discovery

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This course examines European encounters with America, Asia, and Africa from the age of Columbus through the end of the early modern period. Taking trade, violence, and missionary activity as its primary themes, this course will analyze the causes and consequences of the expansion of European power across the globe. We will also analyze native responses to Europeans; the large scale changes engendered in Western Civilization by global encounters; and the emergence of Europe as a global scientific, political, and military power.