Social studies

  • Push factor 

something that makes people want to leave a place 

  • Pull factor

something that attracts people to a place or an activity:

  • Cultural diffusion

the spread of cultural trends across locations.

  • Isolated culture

minority communities operate independently from the majority culture

  • Diverse culture

when people from different ethnic backgrounds coexist and live together in harmony

Unit 2: New Ideas and Exploration

Vocabulary

  • Printing press

 a machine that uses ink to transfer words and images to paper

  • Heretic

a person who believes or teaches something opposed to accepted beliefs

  • Triangular Trade

the name for the routes that people in Europe, Africa, and the Americas used to trade goods and enslaved people long ago

  • Mercantilism

Mercantilism is a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy

  • Why did Spain and Portugal want to find new trade routes to Asia?

For the three G’s, to spread christianity, to become rich through trade, and to become reconized.

  • How are countries going to get natural resources from new places?

Countries can get natural resources from trade and from conolization.

  • How did the church deal with scientists during this time?

The church claimed they commited heresy.

  • How were natives' lives changed due to colonization?

Natives lives changed by the spreading of disease, and by progresing from the trade of new things brought from othercontries.

  • Recall each enlightenment thinker and their ideologies.

Thomas Hobbes believes humans are selfish, cruel and greedy, and monarchy is the best government.

John Locke believed that people have natural rights such as life, liberty, and property, if the government violates the peoples rights then people can overthrow the government.

People are good when born, but the life experience changes them, a social contract makes the government protect them is they sacrifice some rights.

  • How did “all men are created equal” threaten absolute monarchs

It would compare kings to other people as equal.

  • How did the revoking of the Edicts of Nanes violate enlightenment ideas?

It violated the right of religious freedom.

  • Haitian Revolution: long term effect of enslavement and colonization?

The haitian revolution showed the world they were successful in becoming the first black republic.

  • Latin Revolution: remember the economic hierarchy

The Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulattoes, Native Americans. 

  • How does the government try to deal with the bad stuff coming out of cities? (pollution)

New laws are mades and stricter codes are used in factories. 

  • Result of labor unions.

Better wages, hours, and working conditions

  • How did capitalism change the way people lived and worked?

It allowed people to individually improve their status and build business.