world civ 2: chapter 17 inquizitive

true

During the colonial period, more than 12,000,000 souls were purchased in Africa.

false

North America imported more African slaves than the Caribbean.

true

African peoples were sometimes captured and enslaved inland, and then forcefully taken to the coasts.

true

Brazil imported most of the African slaves that arrived in the Americas.

african slaves

By 1608 the mita could no longer deliver enough workers, and mine-owners bought ------- for work at Potosí.

christianity, disease, less

Europeans not only established commercial relationships with Pacific Islanders and Australian Aborigines, they also imported -----. Missionaries brought with them ------ that led to the death of significant populations of natives. Because the widespread death and suffering seemed to affect newcomers far ------- than the local populations, many islanders attributed this disparity to God's divine protection.

true

His activities in Siberia spearheaded the introduction of disease and practices of brutality that ultimately killed many native Siberians.

portugese, farming, slave

In Angola and Kongo, ---------- mariners and settlers tried to develop different activities such as ------ and silver mining. Utterly failing in both, they developed an economy based on ------ trading.

mesoamerica and the andes

In absolute terms, this region lost more population than any other in the Americas.

Carribean Islands

More than 99 percent of the Taíno population was wiped out in three generations because of crowd diseases brought from Europe and malaria from Africa.

false

Most African slaves that were sent to the Americas departed from South Africa

true

Population collapse in the Americas created a scarcity of laborers working in American mines and plantations; this demand for labor was satisfied by Africa.

4 million

The most isolated peoples in the world in the years between 1500 and 1750 were those living on the continent of Australia and the islands of Remote Oceania. Based on scholarly approximations, how many people lived in Australia and the Pacific Islands by 1750, prior to frequent European contact?

true

The transatlantic slave trade thrived for hundreds of years, until around 1860.

false

The transatlantic slaving voyages are the earliest example of the seizing and enslaving of African peoples by Europeans.

awareness of the weaponry used along different coastlines, knowledge of the relative price of tradeable goods, and knowledge of different cultures and launguages.

The weaving of a global trade web required the navigation of the oceans for months at a time. Yearning for lucrative goods, Atlantic Europeans—sailors, settlers, and merchants—often traveled, risking time and money, with no knowledge of what they would find. What information advantages did they have that others did not?

the southern region of South America (what is today southern Chile)

This region suffered the least in terms of population decline.

aztec and inka, viceroyalties, small

To conquer the ------ empires, Spaniards formed alliances with local enemy tribes. Because of these alliances, conquistadores took control of native empires in Mesoamerica and the Andes and managed to create Spanish-led ---------. These new forms of political organization used most of the structures, commercial network, and political hierarchies created by the Amerindians. It took Spaniards longer to take control over ----- political structures where guerrillas defended their territories.

mita

Under Spanish rule in South America, the provided unfree labor to work in the brutal conditions of the silver mines.

King Kamehameha

When voyaging to the Pacific Islands, European conquerors carried military technology with them. What leader took advantage of this technology and used it to defeat his or her rivals and unify neighboring lands?

migration of large populations of Russians into Siberia, establishment of military and political control, developments of creole versions of the russian language.

Which of the following processes contributed to the Russification of Siberia?

They formally accepted the British reign, They adopted pig and potato farming, They embraced firearms and would trade women to obtain them, worsening an already growing sex trade.

Which of these statements apply to the Maori's entry into the Global web?

true

Yermak pioneered the expansion of the Russian fur trade into Siberia.

Maroons

communities of runaway slaves existed for decades in the Americas, especially in Amazonia. what was the English name given to these communities?

encomienda

in Spanish America, settlers created big agricultural estates (haciendas), and the Crown granted them the right an ------- to conscript Amerindians as unpaid laborers.

Trucanini

one of the last tasmanians, died in 1876

true

the Río de la Plata region (what is today Argentina and Uruguay) received almost 100,000 slaves.

the khoi people had almost disappeared.

when the Dutch first settled at the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the area's original native population, the Khoi, numbered between 50,000 and 100,000. which of the following statements best describes the Khoi by 1800?