Unit 2 Vocab Terms - Global Studies

Question 1

When a country takes control of someone else’s land and people, usually to increase their own resources or power

Accepted Answer

Colonization

Question 2

Which of the following inventions helped Martin Luther spread his 95 Theses on a mass scale?

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Printing Press

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT a motivation for the Age of Exploration.

Accepted Answer

Make allies and friendship with other countries

Question 4

A system of forced labor imposed on indigenous workers by Spanish colonists

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Encomiendas

Question 5

During the Age of Exploration and colonization, which of the following was NOT an effect on native populations?

Accepted Answer

Natives made a lot of money from the encomienda system

Question 6

The spread of culture, cultural items, or a cultural ideology/beliefs from one place to another.

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Cultural Diffusion

Question 7

Which of the following things were transferred from the Old World to the New World during the Columbian Exchange?

Accepted Answer

Livestock: cows, pigs, horses

Question 8

the process of when businesses/companies develop international influence or operate on a global scale.

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Globalization

Question 9

Which of the following statements is NOT an example of ethnocentrism?

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"Do as the Romans do."

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance?

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Build a closer relationship to God and religion

Question 11

A religious reform movement that involved the separation from the Catholic Church

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Protestant Reformation

Question 12

Which of the following things were transferred from the New World to the Old World during the Columbian Exchange?

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Tobacco, tomatoes, pumpkins

Question 13

Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge.

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Age of Exploration

Question 14

The transfer of plants, animals, foods, diseases, & beliefs across the Atlantic Ocean between the Old World & New World.

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Columbian Exchange

Question 15

Philosophy that humans are capable of living good, fulfilling lives, without a higher power (God).

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Humanism

Question 16

Time period when there was a cultural & intellectual rebirth that changed art, literature, science, & society in Europe

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The Renaissance

Question 17

The Buying / selling of enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Atlantic Slave Trade

Question 18

Restrictive trading practices that maintained wealth within the empire, valuing exports over imports

Accepted Answer

Mercantilism

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