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CHAPTER 17&18 OUTLINE STUDY GUIDE Bryan Marchena I. The Columbian Exchange and its Effects A. Cultural Diversity 1. The peoples of the New World lacked immunity to diseases from the Old World. Smallpox‚ measles‚ diphtheria‚ typhus‚ influenza‚ malaria‚ yellow fever and maybe pulmonary plague caused severe declines in the population of native peoples in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Syphilis was the only significant disease thought to have been transferred from the Americas to
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In 1689 France and England declared war. England wanted to claim the land towards the Ohio River Valley‚ but France had already claimed that land by La Salle in 1682. The French had established a fur trade with the Indians around that area developing friendly relations‚ economic alliances‚ and military alliances. Instead of controlling the Indians like the English‚ the French became friends and business partners‚ therefore the Indians became allies with France a lot easier than England. The Huron
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the cycle. This lasted until the early 19th century. When the slaves arrived in the new world‚ they were usually sent to places in the Caribbean and to Brazil and south America. Many colonies began to flourish because of all the free labor. With all the help from the slaves‚ they were able to produce so much for almost nothing. Slavery helped with mercantilism‚ or the sending of products and money back to the mother country. According to the article‚ Ghana wants to model after Israel to encourage
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European kingdoms had begun applying Renaissance inventions to new economic opportunities: Exploration (Grantham University‚ 2013). Exploration helped to discover new economic opportunities that have made an impact on today’s modern world. Due to mercantilism and unity of trading partners‚ the economic world has become prosperous in foreign trade. The process of
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vii. Made Portugal rich and powerful b. Spanish: viii. Ferdinand and Isabella funded Columbus’ voyage to reach China by sailing west around world ix. Columbus was wrong about earth’s size—ignorant of Americas‚ believed Caribbean were Indies x. Returned with exotic items/native Americans—hailed as a hero xi. Amerigo Vespucci sailed along south American coast‚ concluded land was not Asia—later‚ land was named America xii. Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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conflicts with Native Americans‚ and disrupted by profit-hungry planters’ exploitation of poor whites and blacks alike. Many of the tragedies of Spanish colonization and England’s conquest of Ireland were repeated in the American South and the British Caribbean. Just as the English established their first outpost on Chesapeake Bay with a set of goals and strategies in mind‚ so too the native Indians of that region pursued their own aims and interests. They had recently been consolidated by the weroance
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Mercantilism‚ or the theory that power is based on wealth and a greater amount exports than imports‚ increased WE desire to trade and gain resources. This led to the exploration of NW and motivation to establish trade routes with AF and AW. This was evident especially in Spain because when they conquered the Tainos in the Caribbean‚ and the islands became populated with a few viceroys and hundreds of slaves on the
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The Sugar trade. Oh the wonderful sweetness of money and sugar. What drove this so called sugar trade‚ you ask? Consumer demand‚ return on investment‚ and slavery were all very important aspects to the making of the historic events in which were the sugar trade. Consumer demand is the product of the addicting compounds which make up sugar‚ adding it to about everything sugar gradually became a very important aspect in the 1500’s normal lifestyle. Return on investment is when you put money into
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mostly natives with black (slaves) and white (no slaves)‚ which were in the bottom classes. Sugar‚ which was invented by the Arabs and was benefited by the Europeans‚ was in a high request‚ so they tried to export‚ and it transformed Brazil and the Caribbean because it was an intensive labor that became called the first modern industry; it was a reason for more slavery‚ but they were less strict on the slaves. Another settler was the British colonies that was changing faster‚ and British colonies advanced
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