Chapter 2 Vocabulary

What is the definition of immunity?

• The ability to resist diseases

• To easily contract a disease

• to declare your freedom from paying taxes

• to defend yourself from dragons

What word means a large farm?

• agriculture

• commune

• plantation

• acreage

What is the definition of slavery?

• the buying and selling of human beings

• the condition in which on human being was owned by another

• is someone forbidden to quit their service for another person who treats that slave as their property

• people who are never allowed to be free

What word means a model for economic exchange among three markets. Historically, trade was among Europe, West Africa and the New World ran on the backs of millions of enslaved people?

• mercantilism

• Columbian Exchange

• circumnavigate

• Triangular Trade

What is the definition of missionary?

• someone who writes on stationary

• a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.

• a person who is sent on a mission to the moon

• someone who speaks in front of people to give a speech.

What word means an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars.

• small pox

• COVID

• measles

• chicken pox

What is the definition of Columbian Exchange?

• the exchange of international money

• the exchange of different types of coffee

• interactions between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after the voyages of Christopher Columbus and European explorers led to increased communication and trade between the continents.

• trading of stocks and bonds

What word means profitable trading.

• plantation

• Triangular Trade

• mercantilism

• Columbian Exchange

What word means a sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific through the Arctic Ocean

• Northwest Passage

• circumnavigation

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

What is the definition of circumnavigate?

• to draw circles for agriculture

• to drive a car around the world

• a form of GPS

• to sail around the world