Unit 6 Review

What is the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale?

• globalization

• mercantilism

• joint-stock companies

• industrialization

What is an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought?

• globalization

• mercantilism

• bourgeoisie

• imperialism

What was the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages?

• globalization

• industrialization

• colonization

• Columbian Exchange

What is a person of mixed Indian and European heritage, notably in Mexico?

• mestizo

• bourgeoisie

• philosopher

• indigenous

What is a company made up of a group of shareholders? Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.

• joint-stock company

• industrialization

• imperialism

• Triangular Trade

What is the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people?

• mestizos

• bourgeoisie

• conquistador

• encomienda system

What is a system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power?

• absolute monarchy

• limited monarchy

• popular sovereignty

• republic

What is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state?

• democracy

• limited monarchy

• nationalism

• joint-stock company

What is a form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws?

• absolute monarchy

• democracy

• republic

• mercantilism

What is a system of government in which the monarch is limited by a representative assembly and by the duty to rule in accordance with the laws of the land?

• absolute monarchy

• limited monarchy

• republic

• democracy