4º ESO HISTORY 1st SESSION. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. Name two reasons why in spite of being the most important economic activity, XVIII century agriculture remained stagnant. WATCH IMAGE UP P. 6.
It wasn´t productive enough to be market oriented. Every now and then, Hunger knocked on the peasant´s door.

2. Why was the structure of property such an example of inequality and injustice? There are two reasons.
Nobles and the Church held the majority of the land, and taxes were paid by peasants alone.

3. Why didn´t all of the people have political rights in this period? We call ourselves citizens. This people were the King´s subjects. WATCH IMAGE, READ TEXT IN P. 6.
Because the king´s power was absolute and god ordained.

5. Name two factors for the growth of population in the XVIII century. What was the ultimate consequence of this? SEE DATA P. 7.
Absence of pandemic diseases and great wars. Output grew.

6. Growth output led to Trade expansion. Which kind of trade became the most important and where essentially? MAP P. 8
Colonies imported manufactures and exported raw materials.

7. What was the terribly unfair nature of this Trade and which European countries led it? MAP P. 8
Manufactues are more expensive than raw materials. Colonies started a long process of impoverishment. Great Britain, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.

8. Why do historians speak of triangular trade and which of its aspects can we call the darkest and most hateful? Can you guess one or two demographic consequences for the American continent? IMAGE P.8
Africa supplied slaves to produce raw materials in the american colonies, with which european manufactures were bought, sometimes to import luxuries from Asia.
Africa lost the majority of its healthy young people to slave trade. Its descendants are american afroamericans, now almost 20% of the population in the USA.

9. Watching all the images in p.9, give me two reasons in favor and two against slave trade.
Slaves lived far off better in America than in their ancestral homeland. There are many obvious reasons to be against it.

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