Social Studies Quiz

A group's way of life, their behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols, and are eventually passed from one generation to the next.

• Culture

• Mercantilism

• Language

• Religion

A small town that eventually grew into a state.

• Dominion

• Culture

• Expedition

• Colony

An exchange of goods, ideas, and skills from the Old World to the New World and vice versa.

• Cultural Diffusion

• Columbian Exchange

• Food System

• Mercantilism

A official document granting a person or company specific rights.

• Expedition

• Charter

• Mercantilism

• Colony

A specific area where the lay of the land and the habits of the people are much the same.

• eruption (n.)

• society (n)

• region (n)

• individual (n.)

An economic theory that in order to build economic strength, a nation must export more than it imports.

• Imperialism

• Capitalism

• Feudalism

• Mercantilism

Definition: resistance to disease

• immunity

• colony

• absolute privilege

• mestizos

Definition: People/tribe who have not set home (travel from place to place)

• Culture

• Colony

• Nomads

• Bedouins

Definition: Today's continents of North & South America that was not yet "claimed" by the Europeans.

• Old World

• New Spain

• Culture

• New World

Definition: a climate without extremes of either cold or heat

• renewable resource

• natural barriers for protection

• availability of game to hunt

• temperature climate