10-1 Social Exam (UNIT 2)

Question 1

Contact between peoples with different cultures, usually leading to change in both systems.

Answer 1

Cultural Contact

Question 2

A collection of attitudes, values, stories and expectations about the world around us, which inform our every thought and action.

Answer 2

Worldview

Question 3

A network of routes used by traders for more than 1,500 years from East and West.
The first example of economic globalization and expanding trade routes.

Answer 3

Silk Road

Question 4

A policy followed by European imperial powers from 16th to the 19th century. In colonies, trade was strictly controlled to benefit the economy of the imperial power.

Answer 4

Mercantilism

Question 5

A situation where there is a single seller in the market.

Answer 5

Monopoly

Question 6

A trading company founded in the Dutch Republic (present-day Netherlands) in 1602 to protect the state’s trade in the Indian Ocean and to assist in the Dutch wat of Independence from Spain.
^THE FIRST MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION.

Answer 6

Dutch East India Company

Question 7

The oldest incorporated joint-stock merchandise company in the English-speaking world.

Answer 7

Hudson’s Bay Company

Question 8

A country in relation to its colonies.

Answer 8

Mother Country

Question 9

One country’s domination over another country’s economic, political, and cultural institutions.

Answer 9

Imperialism

Question 10

A nation/kingdom/empire that engages in imperialism.

Answer 10

Imperial Powers

Question 11

A country or area under full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Answer 11

Colonies

Question 12

The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

Answer 12

Colonialism

Question 13

A word that combines “ethnic” and “centre”. It refers to a way of thinking that centres on one’s own race and culture. Ethnocentric people believe that their worldview is the only valid one.

Answer 13

Ethnocentrism

Question 14

A form of ethnocentrism that uses European ethnic, national, religious, and linguistic criteria to judge other peoples and their cultures.

Answer 14

Eurocentrism

Question 15

An economic system that advocates free trade, competition, and choice as a means of achieving prosperity.

Answer 15

Capitalism

Question 16

Definition of economics; “an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”
Three laws of economics
- Self-Interest
- Competition
- Supply and Demand

Answer 16

Adam Smith

Question 17

The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

Answer 17

Industrialization

Question 18

The period between about 1750 and 1850, when work became mechanized and began to occur in factories. The industrial Revolution brought about dramatic economic, social, and cultural change.

Answer 18

Industrial Revolution

Question 19

Condition in which one human being was owned by another.

Answer 19

Slavery

Question 20

1884-1885, also known as the Congo Conference or West Africa Conference.
Sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing rules to amicably divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people.

Answer 20

Berlin Conference

Question 21

The invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known as New Imperialism.

Answer 21

Scramble for Africa

Question 22

The task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the inhabitants of their colonies.

Answer 22

White Man’s Burden

Question 23

First passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1876 and amended several times since then, this act continues to define who is and is not a status Indian. Early versions of the act banned some traditional practices of First Nations cultures and allowed only those who renounced Indian status to vote in federal elections.

Answer 23

Indian Act

Question 24

Boarding schools where First Nations children were gathered to live, work, and study. These schools were operated or subsidized by the Canadian government as an important element of the government’s assimilation policy. The last residential school closed in 1996.

Answer 24

Residential Schools

Question 25

A formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.

Answer 25

Treaties

Question 26

Seek to address wrongs made against indigenous peoples, their rights and lands, by the federal and provincial or territorial governments.

Answer 26

Land Claims

Question 27

A member of an indigenous people formerly inhabiting Newfoundland.

The extinct language of the Beothuk.

Answer 27

Beothuk

Question 28

• Early Contact
• Fur trade
• Destruction of Beothuk
• The Seven Years War

Answer 28

Legacies of imperialism on Indigenous Canadians

Question 29

The process by which a country demonstrates its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.

Answer 29

Self-determination

Question 30

In 1947, India gained its independence and was partitioned into the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.

Answer 30

India’s colonization & independence

Question 31

On Feb 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold ll established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession.

Answer 31

Congo & Belgian King Leopold’s legacy