Ch. 17-2 The First Global Economic Systems (World History)

In the triangular trade routes between Europe & Africa and the Americas, the route from Africa to America that carried slaves came to be known as the ____________________.

Drag each product to the place it originated from on the chart.

Groups:

(a) Europe/Africa (Old World)

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(b) The Americas (New World)

• turkey

• cattle

• tobacco

• cotton

• honeybees

• cocoa

• coffee

• horses

• tomatoes

• citrus fruit

• sugar cane

• potatoes

• small pox

• corn

• peanut

• wheat

What set of principles dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century?

• 1. commercial capitalism

• 1. consumerism

• 1. speculation

• 1. mercantilism

Why did almost entire populations of Native Americans die from diseases such as smallpox and measles?

• 1. Native Americans had weak constitutions.

• 1. Native Americans had no immunity due to lack of exposure to the diseases.

• 1. Measles and smallpox were fatal to everyone who contracted them.

• 1. The diseases were unknown, so there were no treatments.

During its Golden Age, ______ led the world in science, art, and trade.

• 1. Spain

• 1. the Netherlands

• 1. Portugal

• 1. the Aztec Empire

The causes of the Commercial Revolution include all of the following EXCEPT...

• trade

• new financial practices

• encomienda

• colonization

What was the pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, and the American continents called?

• 1. Golden Age

• 1. triangular trade

• 1. slave trade

• 1. Middle Passage

The new economic principle of ___________________ contributed to the prosperity of the Commercial Revolution. It required a nation have a large supply of silver and gold.

Match the following

• joint-stock company

• large farm or agricultural estate

• export

• to buy a good or service and bring it into a country

• subsidies

• to send a product or service for sale to another country

• import

• payments made to support things a government thinks are beneficial

• plantation

• a business where stocks (a share of ownership in a company) are bought and owned by shareholders

Because more workers were needed for plantations as Europeans expanded their holdings in the Americas, the _____ also expanded.

• 1. plantations

• 1. Commercial Revolution

• 1. slave trade

• 1. .Dutch East and West India Trading Companies