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Big Era Six The Great Global Convergence 1400 ? 1800 C.E. The Great Global Convergence Welcome to Big Era Six! Big Era Six lasted from 1400 to 1800 CE. 9 7 Era 6 Era 3 Era 5 Era 4 8 Today The Great Global Convergence What was global convergence? Converge means to come together. Change accelerated when people, resources, and ideas from the whole world came together. That made the world more like we know it today?more modern! Accelerate means to speed up. Exchanges that began in Afroeurasia during Big Era Five continued to bring about change. Scholars translated books, taught others, and worked to gain knowledge. Trade introduced people to new products, increasing the demand for luxuries. Money moved across countryside and continents in exchange for goods.

AP World History Questions 1450-1750 ?Sir, many of our people, keenly desirous of the wares and things of your Kingdom, which are brought here by your people, and in order to satisfy their voracious appetite, seize many of our people, freed and exempt men, and they kidnap even nobles and the sons of nobles, and our relatives, and take them to be sold to the Whites who are in our Kingdoms.? The quotation above comes from a 1526 letter to a European monarch from a king located: a) on the eastern coast of Africa b) on the western coast of Africa c) on the Pacific coast of Central America d) on the Pacific coast of South America e) in the Pacific Islands Answer: B The economies of the southern colonies of colonial British America developed most like colonial economies in:

Unit III (1450-1750) PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS The chart above shows that: A. Silver tended to ?flow? from Asia to Western Europe. B. Silver exports from Japan exceeded those of the New World. C. Silver production in the New World decreased from the 16th to the 18th century. D. China was the final destination for much of the silver produced from the 16th to the 18th century. E. Manila was the world?s leading consumer of silver bullion. D 2. Which reason did not contribute to the Netherlands becoming an economic success in the 1600s? a. rational economic behavior brought about by Calvinism. b. the development of more efficient merchant ships. c. conveniently located deposits of iron. d. immigration of Spanish dominion refugees. e. government policies that promoted trade. C