chapter 20 section 4

how long did it take for the potato to get from London to the south of France and from Madrid to Rome?

1 year

what is the significance about the year that Vienna got the potato?

1580 is the same year Ireland got the potato.

what did the Columbian exchange take from the Americas, and what did it bring?

America gave food, plants, tobacco, and capitalism. We received bananas, black-eyed peas and yams.

why were colonies important to European mercantilism?

Because they provided goods that could be sold in trade.

what was mercantilism? How and why did it encourage European colonization of the Americas?

Economic policy of increasing wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and selling more goods than are bought.

why do you think the common white potato is known as the Irish potato in the united states?

In 1719 Irish immigrants brought the potato to New Hampshire.

did the potato reach London or Paris first?

London

trace the route that the potato took to reach Vienna

Peru to Madrid to Rome to Milan to the north of the french coast to Frankfurt

What is capitalism?

an economic system based on private ownership of property and the right to earn a profit.

arriving in the americas (columbian exchange)

bananas, black-eyed peas, yams, cattle, pigs, horses, diseases

what do the arrows on the map represent?

determines whether or not it comes from Chile or Peru.

new business and trade practices in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries took place before the establishment of colonial empires in the Americas (t or f)

false (after)

as part of the Columbian exchange, tobacco and tomatoes were carried west across the pacific ocean for the first time (t or f)

false (east across the Atlantic Ocean)

as part of the Columbian exchange, corn and potatoes were carried west across the pacific ocean for the first time(t or f)

false (east across the Atlantic ocean)

according to mercantilism, a favorable balance of trade results when the value of the goods sold by a country equals the value of the goods bought by that country.

false (exceeds)

Most European joint-stock companies of the 1500s and the 1600s were founded for the purpose of fighting wars (t or f)

false (founding colonies)

Capitalism is an economic system based on public ownership of property and the investment of wealth to earn profit (t or f)

false (private)

which of the European countries shown on the map was last to receive the potato?

finland

explain what the arrow leading from London toward North America represents

in 1613 a shipment of potatoes was sent from England to Bermuda.

the potatoes that arrived in Dublin came from which Andean region?

potatoes arrived in Dublin in 1580 from Chile, located on the Andean mountains

what European country was first introduced to the potato?

spain

Why are there two different arrow styles?

to show what is going to North America, and where it is coming from.

leaving the Americas (Columbian exchange)

tomatoes, corn, potatoes, tobacco, capitalism

the joint- stock company of the 1500s and 1600s was very similar to today's corporation. (t or f)

true