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SS Ch. 5 Test
Foundations of Globilization
Question | Answer |
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Sheshabalaya was: | An Indian journalist, author, and technology consultant |
European imperialism is known as: | great imperisalist domination of some countries, dominating the economy, politics and culture of others |
Historical globilization | when European imperialism caused domination over any indigenous people. |
In today's world what is believed of Christopher Colombus? | Many people believe Christopher Colombus as being one person responsible for European imperialism |
Johannes Gutenberg | set in motion many changes that would have very far-reaching effects on Europe and the world. |
The printing press | was invented in the 1400s |
The caravel | has large, square sails with a triangular mobile stern sail making it fast and maneuverable. |
Gunpowder was invented by | the Chinese |
European imperialism was motivated by: | trade |
The governments of the five European nations that held colonies: | the balance of trade to favour the home country |
Mercantilism is | The policy of the European governments to strictly control trade |
The Scottish economist, Adam Smith: | laid the groundwork for the economic system known as capitalism |
Hernan Cortes was | the Spanieard who defeated the Aztec Empire. |
The gold and silver from the mines in which enslaved indigenous people worked in South America | flowed to Spain |
Most colonests who settled in South America | wanted all the indigenous people to assimilate and be like the Europeans. |
It is estimated that about____ indigenous people in the Americas may have died as a result of contact with the Europeans | 8-10 million |
Bartoleme de Las Casas: | devoted his life to securing justice for the indigenous people |
What's true about Chattel slaves/slavery | Chattel slaves had no legal standing Chattel slaves are the private property of their owners and can be murdered by their owners with impunity Chattel slavery was based on racism. |
Olaudah Equiano | was a chattel slave who was able to buy his freedom |
The Portuguese was least interested in trading in | slaves |
People who are forced to work in sweatshops today are in a form of: | indentured slavery |
The man who brought about the end of slavery in Britain was: | William Wilberforce |
The grand exchange | was the exchange of natife things to different areas of the world |
The Industrial Revolution took place | between about 1750 & 1850 |
Adam Smith | was admired by the American founding fathers. |
Explain Sheshabalaya's First Round of Globilization | Involved the trading of goods & ideas along ancient trade routes-like the silk trade. From the Middle East, Indian sciences, medicine, literature & mathematics were brought to Europe. |
Explain Sheshabalaya's 2nd Round of Globilization | (late 1400s) Europeans developed technologies that allowed them to sail farther than ever before. This growth was related to European Imperialism: one country's domination over another country's economic, political, and cultural institutions. |
Explain Sheshabalaya's 3rd Round of Globilization | (still today) Began after WWII. Time of rapid growth of world markets and near instant communication and will be marked by the rapid rise of China and India as economic powers. |
5 countries to establish large colonial empires | Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands. |
2 types of slavery | Chattel - private property w/ no legal standing Indentured - involves debt. Can be paid off and released. |