4.5

Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed

AP World History: Modern

Mercantilism: the economic logic of empire

Maintaining control: colonial administration

Colonial economies

Social hierarchies in colonial societies

Cultural interactions and syncretism

Casta painting — Caption: An 18th-century casta painting from Mexico depicting racial categories in the Spanish colonial sistema de castas. Source: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

Resistance and adaptation

Primary sources

Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa on Potosi (c. 1620)

Jean-Baptiste Colbert on mercantilism (c. 1670)

Lady Nugent, journal from Jamaica (1801-1805)

Key figures

Key events summary

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Vocabulary

Unit 4 topics

Unit 4 overview 4.10Comparison of Coerced Labor Systems 4.1Technological Innovations from 1450 to 1750 4.2Exploration: Causes and Events from 1450 to 1750 4.3Columbian Exchange 4.4Maritime Empires Established 4.5Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed 4.6Internal and External Challenges to State Power from 1450 to 1750 4.7Changing Social Hierarchies from 1450 to 1750 4.8Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750 4.9The Atlantic Slave Trade

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