10-1 Social Exam (UNIT 2) Flashcards
Contact between peoples with different cultures, usually leading to change in both systems.
Cultural Contact
A collection of attitudes, values, stories and expectations about the world around us, which inform our every thought and action.
Worldview
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.
Silk Road
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.
Mercantilism
A situation where there is a single seller in the market.
Monopoly
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.
Dutch East India Company
The oldest incorporated joint-stock merchandise company in the English-speaking world.
Hudson’s Bay Company
A country in relation to its colonies.
Mother Country
One country’s domination over another country’s economic, political, and cultural institutions.
Imperialism
A nation/kingdom/empire that engages in imperialism.
Imperial Powers
A country or area under full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
Colonies
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
Colonialism
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.
Ethnocentrism
A form of ethnocentrism that uses European ethnic, national, religious, and linguistic criteria to judge other peoples and their cultures.
Eurocentrism
An economic system that advocates free trade, competition, and choice as a means of achieving prosperity.
Capitalism
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
Adam Smith
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
Industrialization
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.
Industrial Revolution
Condition in which one human being was owned by another.
Slavery
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.
Berlin Conference
The invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a short period known as New Imperialism.
Scramble for Africa
The task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the inhabitants of their colonies.
White Man’s Burden
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.
Indian Act
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.
Residential Schools
