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How the world got connected

Ten questions of mixed difficulty, covering Historical globalization. Print it, or work through it on screen — the answer key starts on its own page.

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How the world got connected

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  1. The voyages of exploration from about 1500 were driven largely by

    1. a) scientific curiosity alone
    2. b) religious pilgrimage only
    3. c) the search for trade routes, wealth and territory
    4. d) the need to map the oceans

  2. Mercantilism's central assumption was that

    1. a) trade benefits both sides
    2. b) tariffs are harmful
    3. c) global wealth is fixed, so one country gains only at another's expense
    4. d) colonies should be independent

  3. The transatlantic slave trade forcibly transported people from

    1. a) Asia to Africa
    2. b) Africa to the Americas
    3. c) Europe to Asia
    4. d) the Americas to Europe

  4. The Industrial Revolution began in

    1. a) Germany, in 1871
    2. b) Britain, in the late 18th century
    3. c) the United States, in 1865
    4. d) France, in 1789

  5. A common economic legacy of colonization is that former colonies

    1. a) control global prices
    2. b) still depend heavily on exporting raw materials
    3. c) manufacture most of what they consume
    4. d) have no trade

  6. A colony is a territory

    1. a) with its own government
    2. b) that trades freely
    3. c) joined voluntarily to another
    4. d) controlled politically and economically by another country

  7. Imperialism differs from colonialism in that imperialism is

    1. a) limited to trade
    2. b) the broader policy of extending control, of which colonization is one method
    3. c) a modern invention
    4. d) always peaceful

  8. Self-determination has proved difficult to apply because

    1. a) the UN forbids it
    2. b) no state supports it
    3. c) populations are mixed, so any border leaves some group as a minority
    4. d) it applies only to Europe

  9. Disease was the most devastating part of the Columbian exchange because

    1. a) it affected only Europeans
    2. b) Indigenous populations had no immunity to European diseases
    3. c) Europeans spread it deliberately in every case
    4. d) it was carried in trade goods only

  10. The scramble for Africa in the late 19th century saw European powers

    1. a) grant independence
    2. b) trade as equals
    3. c) withdraw entirely
    4. d) divide the continent among themselves with little regard for existing peoples

Answer key · How the world got connected

Social Studies 10-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. c) the search for trade routes, wealth and territory — Gold, God and glory is the shorthand, and all three were present. Naming the economic motive first is closest to what actually funded the ships.
  2. c) global wealth is fixed, so one country gains only at another's expense — That zero-sum view is exactly what Adam Smith argued against, and the disagreement runs straight into the modern free trade debate. Naming the assumption makes the continuity visible.
  3. b) Africa to the Americas — It moved an estimated twelve million people over roughly four centuries and supplied the labour for the plantation economies. It is the part of historical globalization whose legacies Related Issue 2 most directly concerns.
  4. b) Britain, in the late 18th century — Coal, capital, colonies and a labour supply all came together there first. The dates matter because industrialization is what turned trade into empire on a global scale.
  5. b) still depend heavily on exporting raw materials — Mercantilism built economies designed to supply a home country, and that structure outlasted the empires. It is the clearest link between Related Issue 2 and Related Issue 3.
  6. d) controlled politically and economically by another country — The defining feature is control exercised from outside, which is what makes the relationship unequal by design rather than by accident.
  7. b) the broader policy of extending control, of which colonization is one method — Control can be exercised through settlement, through puppet governments or through economic dominance. Distinguishing the policy from the method makes discussion of modern economic imperialism possible.
  8. c) populations are mixed, so any border leaves some group as a minority — Drawing a line around one people usually traps another inside it. Partition in India and the breakup of Yugoslavia both show how fast the principle can produce the violence it was meant to prevent.
  9. b) Indigenous populations had no immunity to European diseases — Smallpox, measles and influenza killed a large majority of the population in many regions, often before most Europeans arrived. It is the single biggest demographic fact of the period.
  10. d) divide the continent among themselves with little regard for existing peoples — The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 drew borders on a map in Europe. Those borders survive, which is why so many later conflicts run across rather than between ethnic groups.