Unit 1
What is the most important resource in Mali?
Gold
This is a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee.
Commodity
Which European nation had the largest colonized area in the Americas?
Spain
The use of survival of the fittest to justify imperialism
Social Darwinism
What policy, where one group gives the other what they want, led to WWII?
Appeasement
Which group had the MOST power in Feudal Europe?
The Catholic Church
The city-state where the Renaissance begins.
Florence, Italy?
Which region received the highest number of African Slaves?
The Caribbean
This leader was the most important general during the Haitian Revolution.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
What kind of conflict was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(Hot, Cold, Direct, Indirect...)
Cold (no fighting)
Direct (US and USSR)
What innovation allowed the Incas to farm in the mountains?
Terrace Farming
What were the silk roads?
How did exploration impact maps?
Positively! They became more accurate due to more information.
This is the philosopher that emphasized rights of the accused
Cesare Beccaria
Why did the Cold War stay cold?
Concerns over nuclear warfare (MAD)
What feature of civilization did the Mongols NOT develop?
Cities
A Catholic society, part of the "Counter Reformation" efforts to reform Catholicism and make it a truly global religion?
The Jesuits
What was Japan's response to early European presence?
Isolation
What is one argument AGAINST Puerto Rican statehood?
Lose their culture or language, economic impact...
What is one way that Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles?
Building Germany's military, occupying the Rhineland...
What were the man-made islands of the Aztecs called?
Chinampas
What is one impact of Mansa Musa's Hajj?
Inflation, spread of Islam, people became aware of Mali's wealth...
What is the European system that used Enslaved labor to develop and increase agricultural commerce, named for the place where the enslaved workers live/worked...
The Plantation Complex
What is one agricultural/land-based change that lead to the Industrial Revolution?
Crop rotation, enclosure system...
Weakens European economies, rise of nationalism...