Name:_________________________________ AP World II Africa and Russia in the Early Modern Age (1450-1750) Directly compare the trans-Atlantic slave trade with the trans-Saharan slave trade. How did the gun-slave cycle help create conditions for the rise of centralized states in Africa? How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade affect Africa? What kind of world did Africans create in the Americas? How did Russia?s early history from the Mongols to the Ivans to the Romanovs create the foundation for patterns of autocracy, reform (selective westernization) and expansionism? Does Peter the Great deserve the title, ?The Great?? How enlightened was Catherine the Great? Explain how the tsar?s power affected the different social classes in Russia.