Social Studies Ch 1

difficult to locate

• agrarian

• elusive

• depletion

• archipelago

relying chiefly on agriculture and farming

• depletion

• mutiny

• elusive

• agrarian

a system of trade for goods and services that uses money rather than barter, or an exchange of goods

• monetary economy

• Northwest Passage

• depletion

• mutiny

a chain of islands

• elusive

• depletion

• Northwest Passage

• archipelago

the rebellion of a ship's crew against the captain

• agrarian

• mutiny

• depletion

• archipelago

an imagined river passage through North America that Europeans believed would make travel between Europe and Asia faster and more efficient

• agrarian

• monetary ecomony

• Northwest Passage

• elusive

reduction in quantity

• currency

• depletion

• mutiny

• agrarian

a system of money

• depletion

• archipelago

• mutiny

• currency

Which country was the first to send explorers to North America?

• England

• Netherlands

• Spain

• France

What was one result of Spanish exploration and colonization in South America and the Caribbean?

• Spain replaced Asia as the center of the spice trade.

• Native peoples grew wealthy from Spanish trade.

• Other European nations tried to conquer Spain.

• Other European nations sought land and wealth in North America.