click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter 15
Social Studies 7th Grade Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economy | Foundation of wealth |
| Political/Politics | Thoughts,behaviors,and or reltions based on power |
| Generaliztion | a simple statment or idea made from infering |
| Culture | way of life |
| -ism | a strong belifs |
| Capitlaize | to take advantage of a situation using what an individual has/owns |
| Mercantile | goverment owned trade |
| Conquistador | Spanish, soldier who conquered early Native American villages |
| Caravel | A small, fast and hevalily armed portuguesse ship |
| Lateen | triangular shaped sail used to navigate directly into the wind |
| Columbian Extange | the sharing of goods and ideas with all continents;all started with Columbus's trip to the america's |
| Imperialism | a strong belif that stronger nations should control weaker nations to build empires |
| Raw Materials | Reacources used to make finished products |
| Cash Crops | crops grown to be sold rather than be use by the farmer. (ex. surgar cane/ rice) |
| Colony | a weak land controlled by goverment |
| Settler Colony | a distant land made by of one or more lived in in farms and is controlled by goverment |
| Plantation Colony | large land used to grow cash crops |
| Trading Post Colony | largly unsettled area of land along which goods of all kind are made/ and or extanged |
| Mother Country | a strong nation that controlls a weaker one |
| Capital | money or other items of value used to increase wealth |
| Capititalism | (free market economy)a strong belif in private ownership and control of the methods and materials of trade and production |
| Mercantalism | (goverment economy) a strong belif in goverment ownership and control of the methods and materials of trade and production |
| Isolationism | a strong belif that one country should be seperate form others |
| Triangular Trade Route | path of extange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas |
| Middle Passage | slave trade route from Africa to the Americas |