1. The document discusses world history from 1500-1800 AD, a transitional period from traditional to industrial society known as the Early Modern era.
2. Key developments during this time included major geographic discoveries, reforms, and the beginning of challenges to old traditions as modern man emerged. The provided assignments will help students better understand the studied epoch by having them analyze facts and verify their knowledge.
3. Some of the assignments ask students to identify inventions that enabled geographic discoveries, summarize biographies of explorers like Christopher Columbus, and analyze the political and economic consequences of establishing absolutism in European states.