DVP UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country

Question 2

Belief in the superiority of one’s nation or ethnic group.

Answer 2

Ethnocentrism

Question 3

Cultural Diffusion

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The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another

Question 4

The reliance of people and countries around the world on one another for goods and services

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Global Interdependence

Question 5

The application of ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.

Answer 5

Social Darwinism

Question 6

1 Cause of Imperialism

Answer 6

Economic

Question 7

Religion, civilization, medicine and Christianity

Question 8

Guns

Answer 8

Main technological advantage Europeans had over non-western states

Question 9

Strategy of Colonization used by Great Britain. Local governments were allowed, and limited self rule. Eventually the colonies would be able to rule themselves.

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Indirect control

Question 10

type of control where foreign officials were brought in to rule

Answer 10

Direct control

Question 11

Country with its own government but under the control of an outside power

Answer 11

Protectorate****

Question 12

Mulattoes

Answer 12

People of African and European descent. At the bottom of the Spanish America social structure

Question 13

Cortes

Answer 13

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

Question 14

traveled with French explorers and claimed land in what became New France

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Fur traders

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Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class.

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Peninsulares

Question 16

Moctezuma

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Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes.

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Religion, civilization, medicine and Christianity

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European “Blessings” of Western Civilization

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Descendents of Spanish-born but born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, economic status. 2nd in the Spanish America social structure

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Creoles

Question 19

Capitalism

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An economic system based on private ownership of capital and the investment of money to make a profit

Question 20

Tariff

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A tax on imported goods

Question 21

plantations

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Huge farms that required a large labor force to grow crops

Question 22

Guns

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Main technological advantage Europeans had over non-western states

Question 23

immunity

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Resistance to disease

Question 24

A people of modern South Africa whom King Shaka united beginning in 1818.

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Zulu

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African rulers

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viewed slaves as a sources of income, raided enemy villages to capture slaves and sold them to European slave traders

Question 26

Country with its own government but under the control of an outside power

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Protectorate

Question 27

A governor/general exercising authority on behalf of a sovereign in a province or colony

Answer 27

Viceroy

Question 28

Sphere of Influence

Answer 28

A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities.