6.4 Global Economic Development Flashcards
How did railroads help the colonizers of Asia and Africa?
Railroads helped facilitate the transport of raw materials out of the colonized area and imports of manufactured goods into the colonized area.
The more efficient steamships developed in 1870s allowed for what?
Steamship transport across oceans.
What did the telegraph do?
The telegraph allowed communication to travel almost instantaneously.
What is guano, a cash crop exported from Peru and Chile by the millions of tons between 1840-1880?
Bat and sea bird poop. It makes very good fertizer.
Why did Britain’s Parliament ban Indian cotton in 1721?
India’s cotton was competing with Britain’s woold industry.
Latex sap grew natively in the Amazon rainforest. Britain took rubber trees and planted them in what country?
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India
What is an export economy?
Colonies that were used to grow raw materials for manufacture.
What was the most common source of commercial ivory in the 19th century?
Elephant tusks
What important cash crop came from West Africa that was used to lubricate machinery in Europe’s factories and make candles?
Palm oil
What company was formed as part of the diamond rush in 1880?
DeBeers Mining Company
Apartheid
Segregation of people by race
Monoculture
When land is used to grow only one crop. Cash crops created problems associated with monoculture, specifically depleting nutrients in soil and spreading disease and pests.
What was Mexico’s chiefest mineral export?
Silver
What was Chile’s biggest export, used to produce telegraph cables and power lines?
Copper
How did the Ivory Coast on western coast of Africa get its name?
Harvesting ivory from elephants.
