AP World History Chapter 14 Reading Check Flashcards

5904583762	What drove European involvement in the works of Asian commerce?	Asian goods	0
5904583763	To what extent did the Portuguese realize their own goals in the Indian Ocean?	The Portuguese realised that their naval techniques could win them superiority over Indian Ocean trade in the absence of the powerful Chinese	1
5904583764	How did the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and British initiatives in Asian differ from one another?	Portugal sought Asian goods, Spain wanted to "catch up" (voyage of Megellan, established colonial rule, Philippine Islands)	2
5904583765	To what extent did the British and Dutch trading companies change the societies they encountered in Asia?	The Dutch operated with violence and whipped out most of the native population. The British were less financed and established many trading posts, but we're no match for the Mughal Empire	3
5904583766	What was the world historical importance of the silver trade?	With silver came the emergence of a global network of commerce. Pacific commerce: silver went from mines of Bolivia, transported to Mexico by the Spanish and shipped to the Philippines	4
5904725482	How did the North American and Siberian fur trades differ from each other? What did they have in common?	Both were a major source of furs for the Ottoman Empire, Western Europe, and China. Russians expanded across Siberia imposing a tax/tribute payable in furs.	5
5904725483	What was distinctive about the Atlantic slave trade? What did it share with the other patters of slave owning and slave trading?	Different in immense size and centrality to economic system, treatment of slaves as property, plantations, concept of "blackness". Only in America and Classical Greece did the concept of slavery paired with a society do free men and human rights.	6
5904725484	What explains the rise of the Atlantic slave trade?	Europeans had experience in slave importation and plantation work in the Caribbean, Pope gave permission to rule over natives	7
5904725485	What roles did Europeans and Africans play in the unfolding of the Atlantic slave trade?	Europeans didn't venture onto the mainland due to diseases, thus carried out negotiations from their ships at bay with African authorities. Seen as equals with Africans holding the upper hand in the enterprise.	8
5904725486	In what different ways did the Atlantic slave trade transform African societies?	African population dropped from 18% of world population in 1600 to 6% in 1900. Economic stagnation, political disruption, little innovation, no positive impact/change. Europeans were in Africa for the people, not produce. Unfair judicial systems and rulings formed to produce slaves, unbalanced sexes, women forced to do labor in Africa due to absence of males.	9