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| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| Explain how the Conquistadors raided the Americas for riches and mistreated the Native peoples they found. | Hernan Cortes landed an army of men in Mexico in 1519. Moctezuma sent gifts to the Spanish but warned them not to continue to Tenochtitlan. Franciso Pizarro arrived in Peru in 1532 and overwhelmedits people; from there, the Spanish took much of S. Ameri |
| Explain why the Spanish were successful in America | Superior military technology, Division among Indians, Disease weakened Native Americans, and Many Native Americans belived this was the end of the world |
| Conquistador | Spanish Conquerer |
| plantation/encomienda | place where slaves farmed |
| penisulares/mestizos/creole/mulatto | Spanish social classes in the new world |
| French and Indian War | Conflict between Britain and France |
| Jamestown | First English colony in N. America |
| Mayflower Compact | Ser guidelines for governing Plymouth colony |
| Pilgrims | English Puritans who landed in Plymouth |
| Treaty of Paris of 1763 | Ended French and Indian War |
| The_________was the voyage that took Africans to slaveryin the Americas. | Middle Passage |
| The____played off rival Europeans against each other | Asante |
| The _______inspired a series of uprisings against Hausa rulers | Usman dan Fodio |
| The_______were dutch farmers in Africa | Boers |
| ________ was a Zulu leader who fostered pride in the Zulu kingdom | Shaka |
| The first Europeans to build forts along the West African Coast were the? | Portuguese |
| By the 1500s, Europeans viewed _____as the most important item of African trade? | slaves |
| The Middle Passage was a horror due to what? | disease and mistreatment |
| Literacy in West Africa increased under whom? | Usman dan Fodio |
| By conquering mnay people and then encouraging them to forget their differences, Shaka created what? | a powerful Zulu kingdom |
| Economic cycle in which prices rise | inflation |
| investment of money to make a profit | capitalism |
| Enterprising merchant | entrepreneur |
| arrangement that allowed people to pool large amountsof capital for overseas ventures | joint stock company |
| new economic policy aimed at stregnthening European monarchies | mercantilism |
| tax on imported goods | tariff |
| Waht was one cause of European inflation | the population explosion |
| What was one effect that new food crops had on world population | it increased |
| Why did enterprising capitalists devise the putting out system of production? | They wanted to control the manufacture of goods |
| How were European peasants affected by Europe's growing involvement with the world? | They were largely unaffected |
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