World History Final

ColumbusSpicesSlaveryPlantationsTrade

Question Spanish colonists in the Americas who were part Spanish and part African.

Answer 1 – 10 Mulattoes

Question Spanish colonists in the Americas who were part Spanish and part Native American.

Answer 1 – 20 Mestizos

Question The two most valuable resources for the Spanish in America were?

Answer 1 – 30 Silver and Sugar

Question Describe the Columbian Exchange.

Answer 1 – 40 The exchange of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.

Question In the Columbian Exchange, Potatoes travelled from….?

Answer 1 – 50 New World to Old World

Question In the Columbian Exchange, Smallpox travelled from…?

Answer 2 – 10 Old World to New World

Question In the Columbian Exchange, Sugar Cane travelled from…?

Answer 2 – 20 Old World to New World

Question What were the effects of the Columbian Exchange on the world and society?

Answer 2 – 30 A boom in the world’s population A diversification of diets in both the New and Old Worlds The annihilation of Native Americans due to disease

Question Why were Native Americans replaced by Africans as slaves in the New World?

Answer 2 – 40 Native Americans were not immune to European diseases and Africans were. Native Americans could escape easier because they were in their own lands Africa already had a system of slavery in place for Europeans to tap into.

Question What were the long term effects of the African slave trade on Africa?

Answer 2 – 50 A decline in the populations of many African societies. A legacy of racism. Economic problems which still plague Africa today.

Question Today in Africa, it can be difficult to teach about the African slave trade because…?

Answer 3 – 10 Many Africans participated in the slave trade, selling fellow Africans

Question On the map, routes D and E were most likely used by people from what European country?

Answer 3 – 20 Portuguese explorers seeking direct access to the spice trade.

Question What are the three empires in the map known as?

Answer 3 – 30 These are the Gunpowder Empires. Used new weapons technology to control trade routes.

Question What affect did these empires have on Europeans?

Answer 3 – 40 Had to pay high prices for trade goods. Began to explore new routes to Asia. Pushed the boundaries of their previous knowledge of the world.

Question According to Mercantilism, what was the purpose of colonies?

Answer 3 – 50 To benefit the parent country as a source of raw materials and a market for their goods.

Question The Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, and Protestant Reformation all helped lead to the Age of Exploration. How did all three of these events work together to bring about the Age of Exploration?

Answer 4 – 10 They led Europeans to question previously held ideas and their beliefs about the world around them.

Question What is Apartheid?

Answer 4 – 20 System of racial segregation laws in South Africa in which the descendents of the Dutch Boers, who had settled there during the Age of Exploration, used segregation laws to maintain white control over the colored population.

Question According to Professor Jared Diamond, why were Europeans able to so easily conquer Native Americans?

Answer 4 – 30 They possessed the technological advances of guns and steel swords and also carried with them diseases which the natives had no immunity to. The diseases appear to have been the biggest factor of all, wiping out possibly 90% of all Native American populations when it was all said and done. This made the Conquistadors task much easier because the diseases had reached the natives before they did.

Question Belief that government should be limited by set/written laws? (Ism’s)

Answer 4 – 40 Constitutionalism

Question Belief in maintaining or returning to the traditional roles of government? (Ism’s)

Answer 4 – 50 Conservatism

Question Economic philosophy which promoted limited government regulation of the market/economy?

Answer 5 – 10 Laissez-faire/capitalism

Question Ruler with complete authority over the government, society and economy? (Ism’s)

Answer 5 – 20 Absolutism

Question Belief which promoted more individual freedom, and less government? (Ism’s)

Answer 5 – 30 Liberalism

Question Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because?

Answer 5 – 40 They challenged the old (conservative) order through their writings.

Question Economist Adam Smith argued that, in a free market, business activity would be regulated by what two forces of economics?

Answer 5 – 50 Supply and demand