The Silk Roads
A trade network between East Asia (China) and Western Europe
The Silk Roads
A virus that spread around the world starting in 2019, causing a global pandemic.
Covid-19 or Coronavirus
An Italian explorer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European colonization of the Americas
Christopher Columbus
The period in which the production of goods shifted from hand production methods to complex machines.
Industrial Revolution
When European nations began competing to colonize Africa (1881-1914)
The Scramble for Africa
How much of a good or service is available
Supply
A deadly disease that spread across Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa in the 1300s, killing millions of people.
The Black Death or Bubonic Plague
Goods that have been made or manufactured from raw materials and are ready to be sold or used
Finished Good
Production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence
Assembly Line
System of segregating white South Africans and black South Africans
Afrikaan for “apartness”
Apartheid
How much people want to buy a good or service
Demand
When a disease spreads across many countries or continents, affecting a large number of people worldwide
Pandemic
A basic material that is used to produce goods
Raw Material
A series of laws passed by the UK Parliament in the 1800s to improve the working conditions in factories
Factory Acts
a meeting of European powers in Berlin, Germany from 1884 to 1885 that formalized their claims to African territory
The Berlin Conferece
A path or road used by merchants to transport goods from one place to another
Trade Route
When prices go up over time
Inflation
An area of land or a region that is controlled and governed by a mother country
Colony
Where and when did the Industrial Revolution first occur?
Great Britain in the 1750s
This was a Dutch settler of South Africa
Boer
A system of interconnected trade routes between different regions
Trade Network
Between the Black Death and Covid-19, which illness was more contagious? Which was more deadly?
Contagious: Covid-19
Deadly: the Black Death
Name 2 of the 5 characteristics of Mercantilism
1. A nation’s wealth depends on its stores of gold and silver
2. Favorable balance of trade (when goods exported of greater value than those imported)
3. Raw materials go from colonies to the mother country
4. Colonies to become markets for the Mother Country’s goods
5. Closed market: required to purchase manufactured goods from Mother Country
The process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide
Globalization
The African National Congress