Slave Trade Part 1 1. Describe the characteristics of the “Atlantic System”. The Atlantic System was a major catalyst in the growth and development of the Atlantic slave trade‚ which boosted the world economy significantly. The Atlantic system a link between Africa and the rest of the world. It simply was the destiny that Africans were going to face‚ being shipped to the Middle East‚ Europe‚ and especially across the Atlantic to the Americas‚ also known as a diaspora. This forced migration
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Brazil o Spread t Caribbean • There was Spanish‚ Friend‚ English‚ Dutch islands o 80% of slaves will end up Brazil and Caribbean o America is looked at in Europe for recourses • Cash Crops Silver was BIG • More of it so it can be used for world currency • All Spanish o Sugar was mostly Portugal but not the Caribbean • Potsoi Mines in Bolivia (Andes) o Huge city miserable conditions for the Incas o Repartimiento – continuations of the Mita. BUT WORSE? Instead for government for Spanish
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skills were made possible by the large brain and intelligence that goes with it. Question 3: After nearly 2 million years of physical and cultural development‚ how did human communities in different parts of the world learn to manipulate nature? Answer 3: Humans all over the world had been nomadic hunters for almost 2 million years. During this time physical and cultural developments allowed humans to form communities. In these communities people gradually learned to manipulate nature in favor
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1. Archaeologists call the earliest Americans: a. Indios. b. Paleo-Indians. c. Native Americans. d. Siberians. 2. Which group dominated Mexico from 900 to 1100 A.D.? a. the Aztecs b. the Toltecs c. the Mayans d. the Olmecs 3. In the fourteenth century‚ Europeans were most familiar with the _________ part of Africa. a. southern b. western c. northern d. eastern 4. Slave status in Africa was: a. generally permanent. b. transferred from parent to child. c. not necessarily
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Africa chapter 20 • Factories: forts and trading posts with resident merchants. • El Mina (1482): Most important factory in the heart of gold-producing region of the forest zone. • Nzigna Mvemba (r. 1507-1543): Ruler of Kongo. With help of missionaries brought the whole kingdom to Christianity. • Luanda: Permanent settlement of the Portuguese established in the south of the Kongo in the 1570s. Basis for Portuguese colony of Angola. • Royal African Company: Charted in 1660s to establish a monopoly
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Silk Road DBQ The Silk Road in World History (Suggested writing time – 40 minutes) You should spend at least 10 minutes reading‚ analyzing‚ and grouping the sources. Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1-6. (The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.) Write your answer on the lined pages of the Section II free-response booklet. This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents. Write an essay
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The Native Americans created many inventions that helped them such as the calendar and corn that was bigger than a strawberry. The Olmecs started off pretty low but as time passed they advanced to be equal to some of the other empires around the world. 7. African civilizations rose greatly with the find of gold and other resources. People moved new the deposits of gold to try and get them for themselves. 8. Many of the civilization stressed some sort of a religious belief and principles that
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globe The Portuguese began commercial trade after the Spanish Where in the Americas did the Spanish create the models that were applied throughout their possessions in the New World? a. b. Peru c. Brazil d. The Caribbean e. 4. Mexico California The first Spanish colony in the New World was established on a. b. Cuba c. Puerto Rico d. The Antilles e. 5. Hispaniola Matagorda How did Caribbean cities differ from those of Europe? a. American
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Aztec DBQ Essay The Aztec empire thrived in central Mexico from the 13th to the 16th centuries. In the early 16th century‚ the Spanish conquistadors overtook the Aztecs as part of the "Age of Exploration." Since then‚ historians have struggled to define how history should remember the Aztecs. Although the Aztecs were supporters of human sacrifice‚ they should be remembered as a sophisticated civilization because of their elaborate flourishing economy‚ social customs‚ and their advances in society
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food-gathering people who ate wild vegetables‚ meat‚ wild edible plants‚ and insects to survive 4. Agricultural Revolutions: A series of separate transformations that occurred when agriculture arose independently in many different places around the world. 5. Megaliths: A complex of stone structures in Egypt that included burial chambers‚ a calendar circle‚ and pairs of vertical stones that frame the sun on the summer solstice. 6. Sumerians: The people who lived in Mesopotamia at the start of the
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