WC2 Chapter 17

Because Muslim scholars were educated, it was easy for them to find employment where?

Who mostly worked the sugarcane fields in Hawaii?

This was one of the two groups motivated by the fur trade to settle in Siberia.

The most valuable resource coming out of Mexico and the Andes was what?

Before 1700 the most popular items traded in Mozambique were what?

1/3 of all west African slaves were sold for what?

Pigs and potatoes helped improve the diets of what people?

Where did the Dutch East India Company set up a way station to restock their ship on the way to the East Indies?

Approximately how many African slaves died on the Middle Passage?

Who kept tight control over imported weaponry in order to maintain power?

What provided common business practices, beliefs, and language making trade easier?

Only 4% of African slaves arrived where?

Fur traders in North America had to pay a tribute of furs to leaders just like in Siberia.

Where was sugarcane was the most rewarding plantation crop?

Indian Ocena trade routes and through the Sahara Desert are two ways this place was connected to the Old World Web.

Of the 25 million people living in the Americas, the majority spoke what?

The slave trade was the most profitable economic activity in Africa for who?

Malnutrition was the most common cause of death for slaves on the Middle Passage.

What two ways did Islam spread into sub-Saharan Africa?

Catholicism was the state religion of where?

99% of native Caribbean population died from diseases brought by the Europeans

What leader was known for flaying and boiling his enemies alive?

Where did the British set up penal (convict) colonies?

Spain was successful in taking over Central and Meso-America because it used existing societal structures and knowledge.

Slavery was the largest forced migration in world history.