Quiz 12

A  the desire to settle surplus populations outside their homeland

B  the desire to convert non-Europeans to Christianity

C  the acquisition of resources not available in Europe through the use of native labor

A  It aims at maximizing profits

B  It rests on production for sale or exchange

C  It is the basis of the world system

D  It grew through international trade

E  It aims at supplying domestic needs

A  have been harmed by contact with European economies

B  are less intelligent than more advanced groups

C  can’t adapt to harsh natural environments

A  State, nation-state, and nation

B  First World, Second World, Third World

C  Bands, Tribes, States

D  Core, periphery, and semi-periphery

E  Metropole, satellite, and semi-satellite

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  The “Tilted Axes and Spacious Skies” of the New World

B  the neolithc

C  Guns, Germs, and Steel

D  urbanism

A  the greater manpower of the Europeans enabled them to conquer the latter

B  native diseases often decimated the European population

C  the former caused the extinction of the latter by taking over their strategic resources

D  the latter often continued to prosper for some time

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  there are no more indigenous peoples

B  it has brought about a blending of the races, which makes it harder to identify specific cultures

C  they need to be aware of the fact that any culture they study is influenced by and has influence on other cultures

D  there are almost no truly isolated cultures left, which makes it difficult to do real ethnographic research

E  they must be careful when comparing their findings to those who did work in the first half of the twentieth century, when

A  never occurs except in cases of colonialism

B  refers to the attempt to re-create technology used by other people

C  occurs when on people conquers another, as in the Battle of Crecy

D  is always a product of direct observation