How would you describe what capitalism is? What are some ways it shapes your life?, What were some of the key financial innovations of this period (1492-1750)? How do you think they impacted the way people used money and the economic system?, Why were joint-stock companies invented and how did they contribute to colonization?, What was mercantilism and why did it encourage colonization? Why do you think European rulers were driven to colonize other regions of the world?, What factors led to the emergence of capitalism?, How did capitalism differ from earlier economic systems?, How did the emergence of capitalism contribute to inequalities between different regions of the world? How was it related to colonialism?, How would you define “science”? What role does it play in our society?, How does a scientific revolution occur? What do we mean by a “paradigm shift”?, What were some of the major discoveries of the Scientific Revolution? How did it change the way people viewed the world?, What are some reasons why the Scientific Revolution maybe wasn't so revolutionary? What was revolutionary about it? Which viewpoint do you agree with more?, What are some of the non-European influences on the Scientific Revolution? How was it a product of global interconnection? Do you think it makes sense to describe as a primarily European event?, What are the arguments for the idea that the Scientific Revolution caused the Industrial Revolution, and what are the arguments against? Which viewpoint do you agree with more?, What was the Enlightenment and how was it related to other transformations in this period (1492-1750)?, How revolutionary was the Enlightenment?, What are some of the differences and similarities between the Black Death, the Great Dying, and the current COVID-19 pandemic? What does each epidemic tell us about the interconnections between different regions of the world at each point in history (1347, 1492, and 2020)? What does each epidemic tell us about the impact of disease on human society?, What was the relationship between collective learning, wealth, and power during the period of the Columbian Exchange?, How did the Columbian Exchange shape human diets?, How did the Columbian Exchange shape racism and racial inequality?, How did the Columbian Exchange shape global inequality?, Was the Columbian Exchange a positive or negative development overall?.

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