In each of the following exercises, you have a series of questions which you should answer by studying the information in Web pages linked for the Exploration. The pages you will consult are of two kinds:
obligatory pages, which are indicated by the icon along with hypertext script (bright underlines);

optional pages, which are simply indicated in hypertext script--the exercises will not require you to visit all of the optional pages, but you will have to visit some.

To go to the excerises, just click any of the hypertext lines below:

Exploration One: The Columbian Exchange and Global Expansion

Exploration Two: The Spread of the English Language in Pennsylvania and Beyond

Exploration Three: Robert Louis Stevenson, Cultural Change, and Language Death

Exploration Four: On the Origins of Black English

Exploration Five: English in a Karelian Town

Exploration Six: The Cold War, Cultural Politics, and the English Language