Vocab #6

Question 1

Grand exchange

Answer 1

the trading process that began when Christopher colombus brought seeds, fruit trees, and livestock to the Americas, where they were culivated and became staples. In result the native American species were exported to Europe. This exchange expanded to different countries and prodcuts around the world

Question 2

Historical globalization

Answer 2

A period that is often indentified as beginning in 1492 when Christopher Colmbus made his first voyage across the carribean, and ending after world war ll when the united states and the soviet uniton emerged as superpowers

Question 3

imperalism

Answer 3

one countrys domination over another countrys economic, political and cultural institutions. the association benefits one people over another, often by laying claim to territores already inhabitied by people, seizing land and resoures thoruhg conflicrt and war, imposign political control

Question 4

indentured labour

Answer 4

to be bound in service to another ie slavery

Question 5

indigenous

Answer 5

teh aboriginal inhabitants of a region

Question 6

industrial revoluton

Answer 6

the period between about 1750 and 1850 when work became mechanized and begain to occur in factories. the industrial revolution borught about dramatic economic, social and cultural change

Question 7

mercantiliam

Answer 7

from the 16th to the 19th centuries, a system of government sponsered international business ventures designed to make european monarchs rich

Question 8

pre industrial society

Answer 8

a socierty in which people spend a great deal of time catching or raising the food they eat

Question 9

privileges

Answer 9

the right to do certian things ie the privilege of the nobles to go on the peasants land

Question 10

rural

Answer 10

referring to the countryside

Question 11

self suffiencent

Answer 11

one way of describibng pre industiral society in which poepl buy few things because they raise of make the things they need to live

Question 12

subsitenve level of development

Answer 12

a level of development in a country in which people produce what they consume and are limited essentially to life necessities: farming is the main occupation

Question 13

trade guild

Answer 13

a group of people in pre industiral england who tried to control how many people could work in an occupation so they could make more money from their work

Question 14

urban

Answer 14

a city or town

Question 15

urbanization

Answer 15

the process of rural areas becoming cities or towns, people moving from the country to towns or cities