World Cultures II Chapter 13 – Flashcards
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Vasco da Gama's discovery of a route to India by sea proved to be...
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very profitable since da Gama returned with a cargo of spices and made a profit of several thousand percent
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--- went to his grave believing he discovered a westward passage to Asia when in fact he discovered the Americas
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Chris Columbus
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Name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in 17th century
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mercantilism
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1st European settlers of Hudson River
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Dutch
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The --- society of eastern Nigeria produced more slaves than practically any other continent
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Ibo
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originally african slaves were brought to the americas to supple labor for the
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sugarcane plantations
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Moluccas were known to Europeans as
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the Spice Islands
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in Southeast Asia, european influence...
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was mostly limited to the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago
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--- became the dominant religion on the Southeast Asian mainland from 1500-1800
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Buddhism
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The Dutch tried to dominate the clove trade by
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limiting cultivation of the crop to one island and forcing others to stop the growing and trade of the spice
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to Portuguese explorers the southern coast of West Africa became known as the
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Gold Coast
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The Treaty of Tordesillas signed in 1494
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established a line of demarcation between territories controlled by Portugal and those controlled by Spain
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--- explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England
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John Cabot
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According to mercantilists the prosperity of a nation depended on
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a large supply of bullion or gold and silver
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What was the name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America?
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the Middle Passage
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The african society of --- was changed from a brilliant society to a corrupt and brutal place by the slave trade
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Benin
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Aggressive Dutch traders were able to
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reduce the English influence on the spice market to a single port on the southern coast of Sumatra
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European rulers and merchants were determined to gain control of the islands of Southeast Asia because
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the spice trade there was enormously profitable
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Europeans had less impact on the mainland states of Southeast Asia because
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the mainland states were able to unite and drive the Europeans out
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The --- is the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time
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balance of trade
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The chief motives for European expansion into the new world were god, glory and ---
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gold
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the first European to reach India by sailing around Africa was ---
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Vasco da Gama
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Slaves were brought to the Americas in order to grow ---
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sugarcane
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before the growth of --- in South America and the islands, most enslaved people had been used as domestic servants
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sugarcane
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2 areas of Africa which had a permanent European presence between 1500-1800 were Mozambique and ---
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South Africa
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--- wrote a letter to the King of Portugal protesting the impact of the slave trade on his kingdom
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King Afonso
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The Portuguese were pushed out of the spice trade in Southeast Asia by the ---
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Dutch
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By 1800 the Khmer monarchy had been driven from the Mekong Delta by the ---
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Vietnamese
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Burma, ---, and Vietnam had strong monarchies that resisted foreign intrusion
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Thailand
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A --- is a body of nonelective government officials
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bureaucracy
