WH Semester 2 Final Exam Review

What are some positives of globalization?

• Cheap sneakers and clothes

• Cheap electronics

• Information is easy to access and it travels quickly (internet and social media)

• All of the answers are correct

What are some negatives of globalization?

• Workers are exploited in sweatshops

• Pollution and deforestation

• Low wages for factory workers in Asia and Africa

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An economic system based on private ownership and the investment of resources,such as money, for profit.

• Mercantilism
• Caravel
• Capitalism
• Cortes

Segment of the forced journey that captured Africans made from Africa to America throughout the 1600's; it consisted of the dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean; many slaves perished on this segment of the journey.

• Caravel
• Pizarro
• Triangular Trade
• Middle Passage

First man to led an expedition that circumnavigated the globe.

•  Pizarro
• Caravel
• Cortes
• Magellan

(16th-19th centuries) Captured Africans were transported across the Atlantic under horrific conditions to labor in the Americas in mines and plantations.

• Favorable balance of trade
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Vasco de Gaman

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.

• Capitalism
• Megellan
• Colonies
• Mercantilism

He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

• Vasco de Gama
• Donald Trump
• Cortes
• Christopher Columbus

The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange
• Middle Passage
• Capitalism
• Colonization

To travel for the purpose of discovery from 1450-1600

• Colonization 
• Middle Passage
• Mercantilism
• Exploration