Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Power, Conquest, and a World System

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
territory under the immediate political control of a nation state   colony  
🗑
unpaid labor required by a governing authority   corvée labor  
🗑
joint stock company chartered by Dutch government to control all Dutch trade in Indian/Pacific Oceans   Dutch East India Company  
🗑
Dutch East India Company also known by its Dutch initials   VOC, for Verenigde Ostendische Compagnie  
🗑
the Lords Seventeen, members of board of directors of Dutch East India Company   Heeren XVII  
🗑
firm managed by a centralized board of directors but owned by its shareholders   joint stock company  
🗑
agricultural plantation specializing in large-scale production of single crop to be sold on market   monoculture plantation  
🗑
strip an area of money, goods/raw materials through threat/use of physical violence   pillage  
🗑
Tirailleurs Sénégalais   Senegalese Riflemen  
🗑
army existing from 1857-1960 composed largely of soldiers from French W African colonies led by officers from Metropolitan France   Tirailleurs Sénégalais  
🗑
our world is result of __ __ processes that involved __ & __ of wealth & power   large-scale historical; ebb; flow  
🗑
probably appeared about 5500 years ago   earliest writing  
🗑
invented in China about 1000 years ago   first movable type printing press  
🗑
first European to use movable type printing press about 570 years ago   Gutenberg  
🗑
invented about 165 years ago   telegraph  
🗑
invented about 135 years ago   telephone  
🗑
invented about 90 years ago   radio  
🗑
invented about 70years ago   TV  
🗑
invented about 50 years ago   satellite  
🗑
invented about 25 years ago   internet access  
🗑
seeming to be present everywhere at once within last 10-15 years   cell phones  
🗑
our world today was substantially created by a specific instance of state-level societies   expanding & contracting  
🗑
most important factor in determining political/economic condition of world in past several hundred years expansion of N Europe & settled colonies of   English-speaking subjects & citizens  
🗑
world economic system resulted in __ __ both within & among nations   enormous inequalities  
🗑
world economic system created __ __ necessary for Industrial Revolution & development of capitalism   financial accumulation  
🗑
Ottoman Empire, Russia & Japan played critical roles in development of   world economic system  
🗑
expanding influence & power of W European states had the greatest __ __ on development of world economic system   impact worldwide  
🗑
had expanded steadily in 5 centuries leading up to 1400   Islamic powers  
🗑
often made longer ocean voyages than Europe   Arab & Chinese  
🗑
stretched from Spain to Indonesia in/around 1400; improved on ancient scholarship; important discoveries in astronomy, mathematics, medicine, chemistry, zoology, mineralogy, & meteorology   Muslim societies  
🗑
believed China to be most powerful state in world   Emperor Ch'ien Lung  
🗑
at the end of __ __ __ Britain & other European powers virtually controlled China   First Opium War  
🗑
desire of pious to Christianize world was motivating factor for   European expansion  
🗑
archives of __ __ include more than 15,000 letter (written btwn 1550-1771) from people wanting to be missionaries   Jesuit order  
🗑
powerful but hidden Christian monarch   Prester John  
🗑
searched for mythical kingdom on Prester John, fountain of youth & seven cities of Cibola   Europeans  
🗑
chronicler of Spanish conquest of Americas & swordsman under command of Cortex   Bernal Diaz del Castillo  
🗑
poor & oppressed of Europe saw opportunities for wealth/respect in   colonies  
🗑
Europeans were aided in pursuit of expansion by rise of __ & __ class   banking; merchant  
🗑
Europeans were aided in pursuit of expansion by __ population   growing  
🗑
Europeans were aided in pursuit of expansion by development of __   caravel  
🗑
Europeans were aided in pursuit of expansion by new ship better at sailing __ __ __   into the wind  
🗑
had critical impacts on world's people   monoculture plantation & joint stock company  
🗑
key advantage Europeans had over other people was the __ they carried   diseases  
🗑
almost every time Europeans met others who had been isolated from European, African, Asian land masses they brought death & destruction in form of   microbes  
🗑
European tactics for searching for wealth were   ancient  
🗑
tow of quickest ways to __ __ were to steal it from others & get people to work for you for free   accumulate wealth  
🗑
no earlier nation had been able to practice war, slavery, exploitation, & inequality on the __ of European nations   scale  
🗑
European expansion, for 1st time in history of all other nations, linked entire world into __ __   economic system  
🗑
Britons of almost all social classes expressed __ __ of world in their daily pattern of consumption   economic unification  
🗑
European economic unification created much of __ of Europe & many of today's industrialized nations   wealth  
🗑
European economic unification systematically __ much of world's populations   impoverished  
🗑
pillaging was one of the most important means of __ __   wealth transfer  
🗑
Europeans were driven by search for __ __   precious metals  
🗑
when Europeans found precious metals they moved quickly to __ __   seize them  
🗑
precious metals belonging to indigenous people were sent back to Europe & __ placed under European control   mines  
🗑
1531 captured Inca emperor Atahuallpa & received 88.5 million in gold/2.5 million in silver as ransom   Pizarro  
🗑
early 17th century 58,000 __ __ forced into silver mining in town of Potosi in Peruvian Andes   Indian workers  
🗑
1500-1600 __ colonies in Americas exported 30 tons of gold & 25,000 tons of silver   Spanish  
🗑
after came to power in India, plundered treasury of Bengal sending wealth back to investors   British East India Company  
🗑
1860 __ __ west of Beijing was looted & contents auctioned off to looters for 260,000 pounds   Summer Palace  
🗑
art, artifacts, curiosities, & occasionally human bodies were __ around world & sent to museums & private collections in Europe   stolen  
🗑
plundered 7-ton head of Ramses from mortuary temple of Pharaoh Ramses II & (4) tombs in Valley of the Kings   Giovanni Belzoni  
🗑
Giovanni Belzoni was sometimes known as __ __ Belzoni   The Great  
🗑
sent to British museum where it remains today   7-ton head of Ramses  
🗑
key element of European expansion; most notorious example African slavery, along with impressing local inhabitants, debt servitude, & other forms of peonage   forced labor  
🗑
Europeans forced both peopled whose land they conquered & their own lower classes into   vassalage  
🗑
probably exported more than 7 million African slaves to Islamic world between 650-1600   non-Europeans  
🗑
Europeans practiced __ __ on larger scale than any people before them   African slavery  
🗑
between end of 15th/19th century approximately 11.7 __ were exported from Africa to Americas   slaves  
🗑
more than 6million slaves left __ in 19th century alone   Africa  
🗑
scholars estimate for every African slave successfully landed in Americas, __ __ __ other Africans died in process of slave, capture, holding, & transportation   one to five  
🗑
use of slave labor was __ __ for both slave shippers & plantation owners   extremely profitable  
🗑
slave labor created continuous __ & ___ in areas which slaves were drawn   warfare; impoverishment  
🗑
loss of so many people, violence, & political instability resulting from capture & transport of slaves __ __ African societies   radically altered  
🗑
__ __ __ was created by monoculture plantations   demand for slaves  
🗑
through 19th century __ was most important monoculture crop   sugar  
🗑
1701-1810 imported 252,500 slaves almost all of whom involved growing & processing sugar; island given over almost entirely to sugar production   Barbados  
🗑
most early European exploration was __ & __ by aristocratic governments or small firms   financed; supported  
🗑
by turn of 17th century __ & __ had established joint stock companies   British; Dutch  
🗑
by mid-17th century French, Swedes Danes, Germans & Portuguese had established __ __ companies   joint stock  
🗑
joint stock companies are __ of today's publicly held corporations   predecessors  
🗑
exploration & trade by joint stock companies were able to raise a great deal of __ rapidly, & business ventures could be __ than previously possibly   capital; larger  
🗑
aristocratic governments that dominated early European exploration were motivated, not only by money, but also by __ __ & desire for __   missionary zeal; prestige  
🗑
joint stock companies pursued wealth with __ & __ that governments often lacked   single-mindedness; efficiency  
🗑
joint stock companies were frequently empowered to __ trade   monopolize  
🗑
joint stock companies were frequently empowered to raise __ & conduct ___   armies; wars  
🗑
joint stock companies were frequently empowered to engage in __ __   diplomatic negotiations  
🗑
empowerments of joint stock companies frequently had __ __ on societies they penetrated   devastating effects  
🗑
Dutch East India Company is a __ __ of a joint stock company   model example  
🗑
shares in VOC were available on __ __ & held by __ __ of Dutch society   reasonable terms; wide cross-section  
🗑
Dutch East India Company was empowered to make __ with local rulers in __ of Dutch Republic   treaties; name  
🗑
Dutch East India Company was empowered to __ lands   occupy  
🗑
Dutch East India Company was empowered to __ __   levy taxes  
🗑
Dutch East India Company was empowered to raise __   armies  
🗑
Dutch East India Company was empowered to __ war   declare  
🗑
governments were some degree __ to those they governed   beholden  
🗑
VOC interested solely in __ __ to its shareholders   returning dividends  
🗑
through 17th-18th centuries, VOC distributed __ __ between 15.5-50%   annual dividends  
🗑
VOC returned dividends on 40%/year for 6 __ years   consecutive  
🗑
through 17th century VOC used its powers to __ __ of many of Indian Ocean islands (Java, Sri Lanka, & Malacca   seize control  
🗑
VOC acquired right to control __ & __ of cloves, nutmeg, & mace) taking __ __ to maintain monopoly   production; trade; brutal steps  
🗑
cloves, nutmeg, & mace were the __ __ spices of Indian Ocean islands   most valuable  
🗑
1620s, almost entire population deported, driven away, starved to death, or massacred; replaced w/Dutch colonists who used slave labor to operate nutmeg plantations   Banda  
🗑
by 1670s Dutch gained control of all __ __ in what is now Indonesia   spice production  
🗑
acquired slaves through warfare, purchase, & levy from China, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, & E Africa   VOC  
🗑
17th century controlled most of central Java   Maratram Dynasty  
🗑
treatment of Chinese in Batavia is an example of the VOCs __ __   extraordinary brutality  
🗑
burden of continual warfare & corruption/inefficiency forced VOC into __ __   financial difficulties  
🗑
Heeren XVII were __ by Netherlands government in 1796 after investigation revealed corruption & mismanagement in all quarters   dismissed  
🗑
Dec. 31, 1799 VOC __ __   formally dissolved  
🗑
Dutch client state of France   Batavian Republic  
🗑
other mercantilists trading firms organized by British, French, Germans & Portuguese, Danes, Swedes eventually __ or __ __ by their national governments   dissolved; taken over  
🗑
became one of sources for Industrial Revolution & rise of capitalism   supply of wealth  
🗑
British mutinied, overthrowing Mighal emperor of India 1857   The Great Mutiny  
🗑
colonies were created when nations __ & __ political domination over geographically separate areas & political units   established; maintained  
🗑
European colony existed primarily to exploit native people & resources   Belgian Congo in Africa  
🗑
key goal of colonies was settlement of surplus European population   Australia & N America  
🗑
colony seized for control of strategic local, bordering Red Sea & controlled shipping through Suez Canal   Yemen  
🗑
colonized 1500-1600s   Americas  
🗑
19th century, gave Europeans & N American descendants advantages in technology & quantity of arms   Industrial Revolution  
🗑
relatively few Europeans settled permanently in colonies of   Africa & Asia  
🗑
Europeans, Africans, & Americans shared similar __ & __   diseases; immunities  
🗑
in wake of contact with Europeans, 95% of population of __ __ died   New World  
🗑
Europeans saw the devastation from disease on Native Americans, as God's __ for them to populate the America's & was __ native population to make that possible   intended; removing  
🗑
New World natives lacked immunity to European diseases because many N American groups were too small to sustain such __ __ & therefore had no immunity to them   crowd diseases  
🗑
smallpox, influenza, tuberculosis require __ __ of populations   large reservoirs  
🗑
New World natives lacked immunity to European diseases because most crowd diseases originated in __ __ which were largely absent from Americas   domesticated animals  
🗑
__ epidemic killed up to 1/2 of Aztec population due to contact w/Cortes   smallpox  
🗑
__ __ was also decimated by disease due to contact w/Europeans   Inca empire  
🗑
disease swept across Central/South America __ __ of the Europeans   in advance  
🗑
__ of Native Americans had dire effects throughout the Americas   die-off  
🗑
resistance could not be effective for Native Americans due to __ populations of Europeans & __ populations of natives   increasing; diminishing  
🗑
first governor of Massachusetts   Winthrop  
🗑
Winthrop declared that settlers had __ __ to the land because it was __ __   fair title; vacuum domicilium  
🗑
empty land; legal fiction created by Winthrop   vacuum domicilium  
🗑
beginning of 19th century industrialization enabled Europeans & Americans to __ __ in greater quantity & quality than any other people   produce weapons  
🗑
beginning of 19th century industrialization created __ __ for raw materials that could not be satisfied by Europe   enormous demand  
🗑
discoveries in __, particularly __ & __ drugs, improved odds of survival for Europeans in places previously considered deadly   medicines; vaccines; antimalarial  
🗑
by 1900 most nations in Americas had achieved __, but much of rest of world was under __ __   independence; colonial rule  
🗑
effective, fast ways to get wealth & plunder   mercantilists firms  
🗑
using mercantilists firms to colonize an area required some level of __ expenditure   government  
🗑
government expenditures involved w/mercantilists firms' colonizations included   government officials & troops to back them  
🗑
government officials & troops to back them involved w/mercantilists firms' colonizations were paid out of __ __   government funds  
🗑
European governments felt forced to assume colonial control because of __ surrounding collapse of involved mercantile companies (i.e. VOC/British East India Co.)   scandals  
🗑
European governments felt forced to assume colonial control out of fear that their __ __ __ were threatened, generally by other European nations   national commercial interests  
🗑
example of European governments felt forced to assume colonial control out of fear that their national commercial interests were threatened   Berlin Conference partitioning Africa among European powers in late 19th century  
🗑
Europeans used combination of __ & __ __ to force colonization on subject populations   diplomacy; military conquest  
🗑
Europeans created & used military forces of __ __ led by European officers to conquer areas they wished to colonize   native troops  
🗑
Tirailleurs Sénégalais is an example of the way in Europeans __ native troops to __ areas for colonization   utilized; conquer  
🗑
European __ & __ leaders often created colonies without full back of __ of their nations   politicians; military; citizens  
🗑
after European governments established colonies they had to __ both their own __ & __ __ the colonization was beneficial   convince; populations; colonial subjects  
🗑
European governments attempted to convince that a colonization was beneficial through cloaking their actions in   ideology of social betterment  
🗑
example of British attempts to convince that a colonization was beneficial by Rudyard Kipling   the white man's burden of bringing civilization to the savage  
🗑
example of France attempts to convince that a colonization was beneficial the population was told that   it had a mission civilisatrice  
🗑
civilizing mission that would savages in colonized areas & increase political/cultural power throughout the world   mission civilisatrice  
🗑
French government considered mission civilisatrice as rayonnement, which meant   lighting the way for others  
🗑
once colonies were seized they had to be __ and made __   administered; profitable  
🗑
hoped that tax revenues from colonial subjects would support cost of colonial government & construction of various public works   colonizing power  
🗑
many cases tax revenues from colonial subjects were insufficient & __ were required to make up difference between colonial __ & __   taxpayers; income; expenses  
🗑
colonies gave businesses based in colonizing country places in which to operate   free of competition  
🗑
colonies created __ __ __ for older British industries & newer French manufacturers, enabling __ __ for firms in these nations   zones of protection; higher profits  
🗑
costs of colonies were __ __ by subject colonial population & by colonizing-country taxpayers   born unequally  
🗑
windfall profits from colonialism went to __ __ __ operating in the colonies   shareholders of companies  
🗑
finding ways to extract taxes & create conditions in which corporations could make money often meant __ __ of indigenous ways of life   systematic undermining  
🗑
accounted for only small percentage of indigenous way of life   trading  
🗑
indigenous ways of life were drawn among __ __ & most of their production was for __ __   kinship lines; own consumption  
🗑
colonial subjects had to be made to produce the goods that __ __ wanted & to __ in ways that would profitable to colonizers   colonizing societies; labor  
🗑
changing the __ way of life was a key problem in making colonies profitable   natives'  
🗑
control of local leaders, forced labor, forced production of particular commodities, taxation & direct propaganda through education were __ that colonizers used to change native way of life   methods  
🗑
seizing direct control of __ __ was expensive & foreign colonial leaders often lacked __ __ of local language & culture   political leaders; sufficient knowledge  
🗑
more often colonialists ruled directly through __ __   native leaders  
🗑
promises of power/wealth & realization that colonial governments held reins of power drew colonial subjects to __ __   support them  
🗑
needed for colonial powers to rule effectively   well-organized chain of command  
🗑
most often sympathetic to colonizers & were able to retain degree of power, although answerable to colonial authorities   local elites  
🗑
those __ to colonial rule were rapidly replaced   unsympathetic  
🗑
regions were precolonial relationships were __ posed more difficult problem for colonizers   egalitarian  
🗑
in egalitarian societies were there was no __ or __ __ colonizers created new chiefly offices   chief or co-reigning chiefs  
🗑
lumping together people with different traditions/languages, egalitarian societies, sometimes done by colonialists/missionaries to forge   new ethnic groups  
🗑
did not exist before era of colonialism, created by actions of colonial/post-colonial governments in central Ivory Coast of Africa   Bete  
🗑
policies of __ __ created preconditions for instability & violence   indirect rule  
🗑
ethnic groups created for purposes of colonial rule tended to __ when rule diminished   fragment  
🗑
one of most direct ways European governments tried to make their colonies profitable was   forced labor, or corvée labor  
🗑
until WWII most colonial governments insisted on __ __ from their subjects   substantial labor  
🗑
1926 French enacted a law permitting __ __ of labor for their W African colonies   annual draft  
🗑
compelled to work for 3years on bridge & road building, irrigation projects, & other public works by French's annual draft of labor   conscripts  
🗑
mortality rates high during 3years of forced labor making this one of most hated   institutions of colonialism  
🗑
natives resisted forced labor by __ __ or by __ authorities when such work was demanded   hiding workers; fleeing  
🗑
economic & social policies of colonial regimes often required natives to __ __ their culture   radically alter  
🗑
Portuguese colonial policy in __ forced almost 1 million peasants to grow cotton; controlled what they produced, where they lived, with whom they traded & how they organized labor   Mozambique  
🗑
by 1960s in Mozambique, brutality & terror used by colonial regime resulted in __ __ that continued into 1990s   civil war  
🗑
at turn of century each native owed government 40 hours of labor/month in exchange for token wage   Congo  
🗑
by time Belgium government stripped __ of his control on Congo 4-8million Congolese had starved to death/killed   Leopold  
🗑
included groups from Algeria, Morocco, Madagascar, Vietnam, Cambodia, & other French colonial possessions   Tirailleurs military units  
🗑
in E Africa British drafted & recruited   King's African Rifles  
🗑
in India British created entire army of colonial subjects drawn from ethnic groups the British considered   particularly warlike  
🗑
about 1.3 million of __ __ serves in WWI, primarily on Western Front but also in Middle East   Indian Army  
🗑
key mechanism for accomplishing population to work for colonial masters voluntarily or produce goods desired   taxation  
🗑
taxation forced colonial subjects into __ __   market system  
🗑
taxes generally had to be paid in __ __, which native subjects could obtain only by __ __ colonist, or __ something that they want to but   colonial money; working for; producing  
🗑
participation in __ & __ __ was viewed as essential precondition for civilizing natives   market; wage labor  
🗑
taxation often forced colonial subjects into __ __ of dependency on market system   vicious cycle  
🗑
natives entered __ __ __ as producers of raw materials & consumers of manufactured goods   global capitalist economy  
🗑
often designed to convince subjects that they were the cultural, moral, & intellectual inferiors of those who ruled them   colonial eduction  
🗑
education in __ __ encouraged children to aspire to be like the ideal Englishman   19th-century India  
🗑
children were directly taught to obey colonial masters   France’s African colonies  
🗑
school for hostages, created by Faidherbe in 1860s and requested newly conquered chiefs to send son to be educated in French W Africa colony   école des otages  
🗑
école des otages was eventually changed to school for chiefs, even though many students were still hostages   école des chefs  
🗑
at colonial schools the colonizing powers tried to create class of __ subjects who would serve as junior grade __ __   literate; civil servants  
🗑
colonial schools taught students that they were __ __ than their uneducated countrymen   more advanced  
🗑
France’s African colonies, those who were assimilated & educated to French culture were known by colonials & themselves as   evolues  
🗑
evolues means   evolved people  
🗑
title of evolues increased perception of uneducated/unassimilated as being __ & __   backward; primitive  
🗑
colonial schooling __ colonizer’s position & created __ educated class convinced of its superiority   reinforced; subservient  
🗑
origins & practice of __ __ are bound up in colonial era   modern anthropology  
🗑
products of 18th-century age of Enlightenment, romantic retrenchment of 19th-century, Industrial Revolution, birth of modern science, & other historical/philosophical forces   anthropology & 19th-century colonialism  
🗑
__ __ of 19th-century anthropologists described world in which all societies were evolving toward perfection   evolutionary theories  
🗑
evolutionary theories of 19th-century anthropologists shows elements of __ __ where anthropologists were systematizing knowledge & trying to discover laws of social development   enlightenment rationality  
🗑
evolutionary theories of 19th-century anthropologists shows elements of __ __, the idea that nations were moving toward perfection   19th-century romanticism  
🗑
evolutionary theories of 19th-century anthropologists was a __ __ that could be pressed into service as __ for colonization   convenient philosophy; rationale  
🗑
one of most important impacts colonialism had on anthropology was determining   location of fieldwork  
🗑
in some cases, ___ may have played role in determining topics of anthropological research   colonialism  
🗑
tended to promote kind of anthropology where anthropologist speaks as active authority claiming objectivity in description of passive subjects   colonialism & discourse of rationalism/science  
🗑
1st ½ of 20th century colonial governments faced with political problems of governing their __ sometimes relied on info provided from anthropologists   possessions  
🗑
colonial officials generally __ anthropologists, believing they were too __ to colonial subjects   mistrusted; sympathetic  
🗑
1st ½ of 20th century most anthropological research was funded by __ __ with __ agendas   charitable organizations; reformist  
🗑
civil disobedience, changing political structures, & changing economic structures are the reasons colonized territories are   granted independence  
🗑
expansion of European influence probably had __ __ on cultures worldwide   greatest effect  
🗑
growing sugar was __ __ that created demand for African slaves in Americas   critical thing  
🗑
authors of our book argue that critical factor enabling Europeans to colonize successfully in 19th century was   mass production of weapons  
🗑
in colonies, education was most frequently aimed at training __ __ __   children of elites  
🗑
idea that although nations were no longer colonized, many institutions of colonialism remained   neocolonialism  
🗑
main reason for __ __ __ in the Americas was disease   rapid European success  
🗑
notion that colonialism was a duty for Europeans and a benefit for the colonized   civilizing mission  
🗑
active possession of foreign territory & maintenance of political domination over that territory   colonialism  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: lfrancois
Popular Miscellaneous sets