Vocab Terms
Labor system used by the Spanish; Natives provide labor and pay taxes; landowners protect and educate
Encomienda
Spanish conqueror; took over the Aztec and Inca populations in Mexico
Conquistador
Who was Adam Smith?
Father of Economics
Transfer of goods, people, ideas between Americas and Afro-Asia
Columbian Exchange
Which theme of Geography describes how people impact and are impacted by their surroundings?
Human-Environment Interaction
A large agricultural estate
Plantation
Who was the Father of Economics
Adam Smith
Who was Mao Zedong?
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Which modern day country had the most enslaved people
Brazil
What role did diseases play in the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Diseases created a need for human labor resulting in the enslavement of Africans
The process by which ideas spread
Diffusion
Conquistador
Market based on public/community ownership; shared resources and responsibility
Communism
Human Environment Interaction, Place, Movement, Location, Region are what?
The 5 Themes of Geography
Spirit of adventure, better technology to navigate seas and for glory or fame describe the motives for what?
Europeans to explore the world
Corporation that conducted shipping and trading in Asia and Africa
Dutch East India Company (VOC)
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
Middle Passage
Capitalism
What was the intent of the Great Leap Forward?
Private ownership of capital
Economic inequality
Competition
These are characteristics of what?
Capitalism
Used in Peru; Spanish draft indigenous laborers to work in mines
Mita
Payments made to support enterprises a government thinks is beneficial
Subsidies
Economic system based on the accumulation of silver/gold; creates a favorable balance of trade
Mercantilism
Major non-material exchange along the Silk Road
Exchange of ideas and different technologies
Ability to wage war and maintain armies, negotiate treaties, and control trade and taxes are powers of what?
The Dutch East India Company (VOC)