1. Imperial expansion occurred slowly during the early modern period, both in Eurasia and the Americas.

2. After the Bourbon Reforms between 1700 and 1800, most residents of Colonial Latin America gained significant access to political power and rights under the Spanish imperial system.

3. Aside from Brazil, most African slaves transported as part of the Triangular Trade went to North America.

4. England, in an effort to expand its Caribbean presence in the early modern period, launched the Western Design strategy against Spanish possessions in the 1650s.

5. Although Europeans were the first to combine and innovate certain navigation, nautical and gunpowder technologies, these devices were actually invented elsewhere, primarily in Asia and the Western Indian Ocean.