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| 3413794734 | environmental determinism | the belief that social and cultural differences between human groups can ultimately be traced to differences in their physical environments | 0 | |
| 3413815487 | graveyard of time | people mainly look to the past for answers | 1 | |
| 3413827279 | paleolithic era (Old Stone Age) | 90-95% of human existence; people organized in small kinship groups; more socially equal; humans used only simple tools | 2 | |
| 3413858835 | origin of humans | eastern Africa | 3 | |
| 3413862529 | Mesolithic Age | more complex tools; domestication of animals; population grew; conflicts and wars emerged | 4 | |
| 3413870764 | Neolithic Age (new stone age) | agriculture; creation of cities | 5 | |
| 3413884521 | hunting and gathering societies | #1 cause of death was accidents (not disease); supported the cyclical idea of life; paleolithic | 6 | |
| 3498132794 | Portuguese conquest to Asia | Around Africa; in the name of the cross; religious motivated warfare; searched for gold | 7 | |
| 3498132795 | Spanish journey to Asia | West from Europe; planned on finding islands; focused on power and conquering; economic motivation | 8 | |
| 3498132796 | Brazil's relationship to to Portugal | Portugal's own personal sugarcane plantation | 9 | |
| 3498132797 | Portuguese territory | Mostly made up of ports; creating a trading empire | 10 | |
| 3498132798 | Philippines | Makes Spain a global empire; located next to China | 11 | |
| 3498132799 | Silver | Mainly found in Potosí and Zacatecas; mining industry driven by China's desire for silver | 12 | |
| 3498132800 | Mita system | Draft labor (forced labor); mainly native Americans | 13 | |
| 3498132801 | Potosí mine working conditions | Very dangerous; caves were collapsing; workers spent about 5 1/2 days in the mines; workers went about 16 miles into the mines | 14 | |
| 3498132802 | Northwest passage | Believed to be a faster way to Asia; from the Hudson Bay through a river to the Pacific Ocean; didn't exist | 15 | |
| 3498132803 | Mercantilism | Import as little as possible, export as much as possible; creates 100% self-sufficiency | 16 | |
| 3498132804 | Fur trade | Main goal of France; leading to extinction of beavers | 17 | |
| 3498132805 | Dutch (Netherlands) conquest | Focused on east Asia; not much settlement | 18 | |
| 3498132806 | Colombian exchange | Global diffusion of plants, animals, humans, and diseases; took place after Christopher Columbus's voyages; beneficial to some, disastrous to others | 19 | |
| 3520891522 | imperial expansion | western European empires wanted more access to territories that were separated by an ocean (maritime empires) | 20 | |
| 3498158995 | Spain's maritime empires | start in the Caribbean | 21 | |
| 3498172231 | mercantilism | focused on exports; wealth is based on the amount of gold someone has | 22 | |
| 3498180472 | Taino | 1st Native American group to encounter the Spanish; had no system for defense | 23 | |
| 3498194403 | moctezuma's strategy | give the Spanish things then hope they go away; didn't work | 24 | |
| 3498337663 | encomienda | labor force; futile system; 1st time in history when human rights activities emerged (low-level religious leaders in Catholic churches were the 1st human rights activists) | 25 | |
| 3498373742 | sugar | very important to the Portuguese empire; cash crop (only really used as an export); could be considered the 1st global assembly production | 26 | |
| 3494513132 | Portuguese conquest to Asia | Around Africa; in the name of the cross; religious motivated warfare; searched for gold | 27 | |
| 3494513133 | Spanish journey to Asia | West from Europe; planned on finding islands; focused on power and conquering; economic motivation | 28 | |
| 3494513134 | Brazil's relationship to to Portugal | Portugal's own personal sugarcane plantation | 29 | |
| 3494513135 | Portuguese territory | Mostly made up of ports; creating a trading empire | 30 | |
| 3494513136 | Philippines | Makes Spain a global empire; located next to China | 31 | |
| 3494513137 | Silver | Mainly found in Potosí and Zacatecas; mining industry driven by China's desire for silver | 32 | |
| 3494513138 | Mita system | Draft labor (forced labor); mainly native Americans | 33 | |
| 3494513139 | Potosí mine working conditions | Very dangerous; caves were collapsing; workers spent about 5 1/2 days in the mines; workers went about 16 miles into the mines | 34 | |
| 3494513140 | Northwest passage | Believed to be a faster way to Asia; from the Hudson Bay through a river to the Pacific Ocean; didn't exist | 35 | |
| 3494513141 | Mercantilism | Import as little as possible, export as much as possible; creates 100% self-sufficiency | 36 | |
| 3494513142 | Fur trade | Main goal of France; leading to extinction of beavers | 37 | |
| 3494513143 | Dutch (Netherlands) conquest | Focused on east Asia; not much settlement | 38 | |
| 3494513144 | Colombian exchange | Global diffusion of plants, animals, humans, and diseases; took place after Christopher Columbus's voyages; beneficial to some, disastrous to others | 39 |
