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| Positives of Capitalism (3) | Best products for lowest prices due to competition. People free to earn as much as they can and do what they want with their capital. More incentive to achieve. |
| Negatives of Capitalism (2) | If profits are most important, companies may do immoral things. Economic inequality - wealth could concentrate to a minority of powerful people and companies. |
| Original reason Europeans sailed to the west coast of Africa, then the New World? | The ocean and wind currents went that way. It was faster than going straight across. |
| What was the "Triangle Trade?" | Slaves bought in Africa, sold in the Americas for goods like molasses, molasses turned into rum in Europe, then sold for slaves in Africa. |
| This was one part of the Triangle Trade that was the harsh trip endured by African slaves brought to the New World: | The Middle Passage |
| This was the name of Spain's empire in the Americas | New Spain |
| The other name for New Spain | Latin America |
| What made Spain the most powerful nation | Silver mining in the Americas |
| English attitude toward the Native Americans in their colonies? | They are barbarians, marriage with them is looked down upon. |
| French attitude toward Native Americans? | They are great trade partners for our fur industry. We respect each other. |
| Spanish attitude toward the Native Americans in later years? | Ok to marry and have kids with them, but we need to convert them to Catholicism. |
| Top of the Spanish Social Pyramid | Spanish people born in Spain. |
| 2nd class in Spanish Social Pyramid: | Kids born in New Spain of Spanish parents. |
| 3rd spot in Spanish social pyramid: | Kids of Spanish and Native American descent. |
| 4th spot in Spanish Social Pyramid: | Kids of Spanish and black descent. |
| Bottom two spots on the Spanish social pyramid: | Native Americans and African slaves |
| What Spain used a lot of its silver wealth on: | Chinese goods |
| Effect Spain's wealth had on China: | China got so much Spanish silver that they changed their money system to silver. |
| What mistake the Ming leaders made as a result of Spanish silver: | The Ming made a decree that all taxes had to be paid in silver. |
| What brought down the Ming Dynasty? | The peasant farmers had bad harvests, could pay taxes in silver, began to starve, disease spread. Peasants formed an army that finally stormed the Forbidden City and the Emperor Hanged himself. |
| Tough and organized people from Northeast of the Great Wall: | Manchu Nomads |
| Dynasty formed when the Manchu Nomads took over China: | Qing Dynasty |
| How long the Qing Dynasty ruled China: | 250 years |
| China's last dynasty: | Qing |
| This is the name for a military commander with regional power: | Warlord |
| This is the Japanese name for a military leader for the country: | Shogun |
| This Shogun took over Japan in 1603: | Tokugawa |
| This helped 3 Japanese warlords conquer and unify Japan: | Firearms brought in by Portuguese traders |
| Things the Tokugawa did for Japan (3) | Brought back Confucianism, improved education, closed the country to Western trade. |
| Only two countries that Tokugawa-controlled Japan allowed trade with: | China and the Netherlands |
