Cultural Contact
When people from different cultures meet and interact, this is called what?
Cultural contact
The Silk Road connected China and East Asia with what other major regions?
Central and West Asia, Northern Africa, and Europe
Gold and silver (precious metals)
In capitalism, business and property are mainly owned by whom?
Private individuals or companies.
The dividing up of the continent of Africa by European powers without the consent of African people.
The Scramble for Africa
Ideas, beliefs, languages, foods, technologies, customs, goods, or traditions.
Name one important product traded along the Silk Road.
Spices, porcelain, precious metals and gems, horses, textiles, silk
What was the Middle Passage?
The forced transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the main reason businesses try to sell goods and services in a capitalist economy?
Make profit!
When a dominant power controls another territory, its resources, and people.
When two culture share ideas and both are changed by the interaction.
Acculturation
Besides goods, what two other things travelled along Silk Road trade networks.
Religions, technologies, diseases, languages
Why did European governments place tariffs or restrictions on foreign goods?
To protect their own industries and reduce imports.
What usually happens when several businesses compete to sell similar products?
Leads to price changes, quality improvements, innovation, and more choices for consumers.
What natural resource became extremely valuable under King Leopold's rule?
Rubber.
Positive: exchange, new technologies, tarde, new ideas
Negatives: conflict, disease, assimilation, loss of culture, exploitation
Why is the term Silk Road slightly misleading?
It was not one road, but a collection of routes.
Not just silk was traded on these routes.
Name two crops or raw materials shipped from the Americas to Europe.
Sugar, tobacco, cotton, molasses, lumber, furs
How did Industrial capitalism increase European interest in overseas resources and markets?
Factories needed raw materials and businesses wanted new markets in whch to sell manufactured goods.
The belief that Europeans are superior to other peoples.
Eurocentrism
A powerful society pressures another group to abandon its language and traditions to adopt the dominant culture.
How does the Silk Road represent historical globalization?
It connected distant societies through the movement of goods, people, ideas, religions, technologies, and diseases.
How did mercantilism and the triangular trade reflect historical globalization?
Triangular trade and mercantilism connected continents separated by vast oceans and created connections that fostered interdependence on resources.
What is one difference between mercantilism and capitalism?
Mercantilism = state control, growing wealth of precious metals, monopolies
Capitalism = private ownership, growing markets, competition, and profit
"These people are not ready to govern themselves. We Europeans must guide them toward civilization" reflects which concepts?
Paternalism and Eurocentrism