Analyze the factors that gave rise to and shaped the Atlantic World System beginning in the late 15th century. Describe, compare, and contrast the colonial empires that emerged in North America and the Caribbean up to the mid-18th century. Analyze how the Enlightenment was defined both in terms of ideas and in terms of social practices. Explain the context from which those ideas and practices emerged. What were the global effects of Enlightenment thought? Requirements: 10 pages