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4.5 Disputes MORE
AP World History 4.5 Economic Disputes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What led to rivalries and conflict between states? | Economic disputes led to rivalries and conflict between states. Competition over trade routes: |
| Who did the Moroccans conflict with? | Moroccan conflict with the Songhai Empire, |
| Who did the Muslims conflict with in the Indian Ocean? | Muslim–European rivalry in the Indian Ocean: |
| Before the Europeans arrived, what was trade in the Indian Ocean like? | Before Europeans arrived in the Indian Ocean in the 1500s, trade was relatively free. |
| Why were the Europeans not received well when they arrived to trade in the Indian Ocean? | Europeans had nothing of real value to trade, so they instead used guns to control the trade. |
| Where did the Muslim merchants operate? | Muslims merchants operated along the Swahili coast, and out of Arabia, Mughal India, and SE Asia. |
| What did Europeans use to trade with? | Europeans could have purchased items with gold/silver but preferred to force others to pay them to trade. |
| Why did the European tactics work against the land-based empires? | Since others were mostly land-based empires they did not have navies to resist. |
| What did Europeans do to deter traders from trading with others? | Europeans taxed others’ trade or insisted others buy and sell only with them. |
| What successive European powers dominated trade in the 1500s, 1600s and 1700s? | Successive European powers dominated this trade for centuries: Portugal 1500s, Dutch 1600s, English and French 1700s. |
| What items were traded in the Atlantic trading system? | The Atlantic trading system involved the movement of goods, wealth, and labor, including slaves. |
| What is Triangular trade? | The phrase “triangular trade” is somewhat of a misnomer. True it connected three “locations” but it involved four continents. |
| What would make Triangular trade a 'three-way system'? | It could be considered a three-way system in that slaves came from Africa, raw materials from the Americas, and “manufactured” products from Europe. |
| What where Europe's "manufactured" products? | Europe’s “manufactured” products included textiles, alcohol, and guns. |
| What were the raw materials that were provided by the Americas? | Raw materials from the Americas meant timber, tobacco, and sugar. |
| What facilitated the new global circulation of goods? | The new global circulation of goods was facilitated by chartered European monopoly companies and the global flow of silver, especially from Spanish colonies in the Americas, |
| What was the gold from the Spanish colonies in the Americas used for? | the gold from the Spanish colonies in the Americas was used to purchase Asian goods for the Atlantic markets and satisfy Chinese demand for silver. |
| How did regional markets in Afro-Eurasia function? | Regional markets continued to flourish in Afro-Eurasia by using established commercial practices and new transoceanic and regional shipping services developed by European merchants. |
| How much of the World's silver was produced in the Americas? | The Americas produced 80% of the world’s silver (100,000 tons! or 2,000,000 pounds ($300,000,000?). Japan also produced some. |
| Where did 1/3 of the silver from the Americas end up? Where did the rest go? | One third of silver ended up in China, some crossed Pacific directly, the rest went to Europe and then to Asia. Ironic that today Bolivia is one of the poorest countries. Of course it had to be mined and processed, mostly done with Native American labor. |
| Who dominated trade in the Indian Ocean? How did they do this? | The British East India Company (BEIC) as well as the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) dominated trade in the Indian Ocean. These companies were so powerful that they had their own armies. |
| Where did regional markets grow? | Regional markets grew within Europe and the Mediterranean; also S Asia and E Asia. |
| What intensified as the demand for food and consumer goods increased? | Peasant and artisan labor continued and intensified in many regions as the demand for food and consumer goods increased. |
| What peasant and artisan items were produced in Western Europe, India and China? | Increased peasant and artisan labor: § Western Europe— wool and linen § India—cotton § China—silk |
| Peasant and artisan items in Europe | These examples all pertain to cloth. People in Europe raised sheep, sold the wool to refiners and dyers; it was made into cloth by hand until 1800 Europeans also processed linen which is made from fibers from the flax plant. |
| Peasant and artisan items in India | India raised cotton (other places did also), converted it to thread and wove the cloth by hand. |
| Peasant and artisan items in China | China raised silk worms and mulberry trees, and converted cocoons to thread and cloth. |
| What did European diets mostly consist of? | Most diets consisted of locally grown wheat, rice, and potatoes. |
| What happened to food sources as cities grew? | As cities grew, and more people did non-farm labor, there was a need to supply/buy food at markets. |
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