World History Semester 1 Final

The relationship between people and their environment

• location
• place
• region
• human-environment interaction

The physical and human characteristics that make a location unique

• location
• place
• region
• movement

How and why people and things move and are connected

• location
• place
• region
• movement

Areas that share common characteristics

• location
• place
• region
• movement

Which of these provides the best description of a culture region?

• an area with similar physical characteristics
• a section of the world with countries where people of the same race live
• an area where the people who live there have ben environmentally responsible
• a collection of countries whose people practice the same religion and speak a common language

From their sources, cultural innovations and ideas spread to other areas

• cultural landscapes
• cultural diffusion
• cultural perception
• cultural environments 

Economic system in which supply and demand in the free market drive the production of goods

• feudalism
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• globalization

Economic theory that held the prosperity (success) and wealth of nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

• feudalism
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• serfdom

Social class in Latin America in the 1500s was based on

• descent
• merit
• earnings
• labor

Why were enslaved Africans needed in the Caribbean Islands?

• paying Europeans for labor was getting too expensive
• growing sugarcane was familiar to Africans
• a need for labor due to the decrease of the Native Americans
• Spanish respected the Native Americans and did not want to enslave them