ap world history midterm Flashcards

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