Essay on World History Chapter 20 – Flashcards
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Capitalism
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Economic system based on private ownership and investment
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Colony
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General term for territory in the new world that was created to make money for its European home country.
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Favorable balance of trade
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Term for when a country sells more good than it buys
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Middle Passage
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Term for trip across the Altlantic that took slaves from Africa to the Americas
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Pilgrims
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Group of Europeans who created the Plymouth colony
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Hernando Cortes
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Spanish leader who defeated Aztec Indians
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joint-stock company
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This is similiar to today's corporation
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Francisco Pizarro
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Spanish conqueror who defeated Inca Indians by kidnapping and killing their king
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conquistodors
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Spanish for "conquerors", they were Spanish soldiers that explored the Americas and claimed land for Spain
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Metacom
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Indian leader who fought colonists in the New World and lost
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New France
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Colony that covered much of what is now the midwestern United States and eastern Canada
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mesitizo
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A person of mixed spanish and native american ancestry
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Montezuma II
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Aztec leader who was resented by his people for how he handled war against conquistodors
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encomienda
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Form of Indian Labor used by the spanish in the Americas
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Puritans
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Group of settlers who wanted to set up a model community to serve as an example for other Christians
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building a fur trade
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What was the main motive for the French to establish New France
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Spain
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Which country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas
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The prices of goods steadily increased
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What was one effect in Europe had on the financial success of American colonies?
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Slavery in Africa was not hereditary, so children of slaves were free
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How did slavery in Africa and Muslim societies differ from slavery in the Americas?``
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An island in the Caribbean Sea
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Where did Christopher Columbus land first?
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Funding colonies in the Americas
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What was the purpose of most of the joint-stock companies of the 1500's and the 1600's?
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It should sell more goods than it buiys from other countries
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According to policy of mercantilism, how could a nation increase it's wealth?
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Livestock
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A part of the Columbian Exchange, which of the following was carried west across the atlantic?
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that the Europeans have the right to demand labor
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On what assumption was the encomienda based?
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He urged better treatment of Native Americans, but proposed using African laborers
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How did Bartolome de las casas affect race relations in the Americas?
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New Netherland was a "Dutch Wedge" separating England's north and south colonies
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Why did the English want to take control of New Netherland?
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British North America
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Which were the fewest slaves transported throughout the whole of the atlantic slave trade?
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French fur traders often married Indian women to the advantage of both parties
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What accurately explains the relationship between European groups and Native Americans?
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Gullah
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A form of communication by slaves
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New York
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What was origionally founded as a colony for the Dutch
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The spread of Islam into Africa
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What helped increase the slave trade in Africa during the seventh century
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Many cultures lost their fittest members, and families were torn apart
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How was Africa affected by the slave trade
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New wealth from the Americas and the growth of overeseas trade
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What promoted a wave of new buisiness and trade practices in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries?
