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622-648 AP Keyterms
List of AP keyterms from numbers 622 to 648
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| purchase and transport of black Africans into bondage and servitude in the New World sometimes called the Maafa by African Americans meaning holocaust or great disaster. The slaves were one element of a three-part economic cycle | Atlantic slave trade |
| labor intensive, dangerous, spurred growth of Atlantic Slave trade to Caribbean/Latin America - numbers kept up through extensive trade, not through reproduction - males primarily brought over - overseers keep order violently, absentee landowners | sugar production and the slave trade |
| defeated Aztecs due to guns, germs, and steel | Hernan Cortes |
| defeated Incas due to guns, germs, and steel and a gullible Montezuma | Francisco Pizarro |
| the name given to one of the viceroy-ruled territories of the Spanish Empire from 1525 to 1821 - today it is Central America, plus Mexico, plus Southwest United States | New Spain |
| Columbian exchange negative - immunity lacking in indigenous people - led to millions of deaths - huge demographic switch | Spanish importation of smallpox and measles |
| demonized role of Spanish and Columbus in treatment of Native Americans | Bartolome de Las Casas |
| forever altered world trade - became source of wealth for Portugal/Spain, currency for China, dominated resource of Mexico, extracted minerals from America and sent to Europe | silver mining |
| Portuguese cultivated in Brazil 1532 - surpassed honey as primary sweetener | Portuguese sugar production |
| last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City | Peter Stuyvesant |
| first British colony in future United States | Jamestown |
| first British colony in New England - famous Pilgrims - became religious focused w/ semi-theocracy | Plymouth Rock |
| first British colony in New England - went on to be Massachusetts - started as joint-stock company | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| wars between England and France over land, secession, and power - end up being played out in North America - colonists and British vs. French and Indians - debt from these wars eventually leads to high British taxes which lead to American revolution | French and Indian Wars |
| Russian trading company that had monopoly over trade with Alaska | Russian-American Company |
| A political theory that states all power should be held by one ruler | absolutism |
| The overthrowing of 1 government and the replacement of it, by another | revolution |
| Government by people, represented by them or by elected representatives | democracy |
| The practice of merchants; commercialism | mercantilism |
| A political and economical system; relation of a vassal and its lord is characterized by homage and protection | feudalism |
| The upper, noble and rich class | aristocracy |
| Between the upper and lower, they often face a stagnant economy, some education | middle class |
| Not bound by any religious faction | secular |
| An arbitrator between 2 or more groups | diplomatic |
| A retaliation from often strict religious groups | conservative backlash |
| Elements needed to free a nation, people | liberalizing elements |
| Elements needed for political freedom | democratizing elements |
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