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Chartered Trading Companies and Early Global Commerce
Describe how joint-stock companies like the British and Dutch East India Companies established global trade networks and colonial outposts.
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Exploration, Imperialism, and the Roots of Globalization
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Explain the motives behind global exploration and imperialism and trace how early maritime conquests linked global societies and economies.
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Learning standards covered
6.3.1Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeDescribe how the conditions and motivations of exploration, colonization, and/or imperialism around the world connect to globalization.
6.3.3Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeUse primary and secondary sources to draw conclusions about the positive and negative economic impacts of expansion and major global conflicts (for example, Colombian Exchange, economic depressions, rise of factories, effects of famine, slave trade).