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Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

Question 2

Colonialism

Answer 2

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

Question 3

capitalism

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Industrialization

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Industrial revolution

Answer 5

The Industrial Revolution was a shift from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.

Question 6

Agrarian economy

Answer 6

An agrarian economy is an economy where a majority portion of the income of individuals is made from agriculture

Question 7

Legacy

Answer 7

Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

A term applied to the cultural or ethnic bias—whether conscious or unconscious—in which an individual views the world from the perspective of his or her own group, establishing the in-group as archetypal and rating all other groups with reference to this ideal

Question 9

Assimilation

Answer 9

Assimilation, in anthropology and sociology, the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.

Question 10

Perspective vs Point of view

Answer 10

A perspective can be defined as a people’s world view that is developed from its collective experience. This differs from a point of view which is an individual’s opinion about a matter based on personal experience.

Question 11

Empire

Answer 11

An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.

Question 12

Hudson’s Bay Company

Answer 12

The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), chartered 2 May 1670, is the oldest incorporated joint-stock merchandising company in the English-speaking world. HBC was a fur trading business for most of its history, a past that is entwined with the colonization of British North America and the development of Canada.

Question 13

New France

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New France. a French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded in 1608. Rupert’s Land. a region in the Canadian north that was a colony of Britain and administered by the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Question 14

Eurocentric

Answer 14

focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent.

Question 15

Kipling

Answer 15

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Question 16

The white man’s burden

Answer 16

“The White Man’s Burden” is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. While he originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Kipling revised it in 1899 to exhort the American people to conquer and rule the Philippines. Conquest in the poem is not portrayed as a way for the white race to gain individual or national wealth or power. Instead, the speaker defines white imperialism and colonialism in moral terms, as a “burden” that the white race must take up in order to help the non-white races develop civilization. Because of the poem’s influential moral argument for American imperialism, it played a key role in the congressional debates about whether America should annex the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War. The phrase “white man’s burden” remains notorious as a racist justification for Western conquest.

Question 17

Canada’s 1996 Royal Commission on the Aboriginal Peoples

Answer 17

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) issued its final report in November 1996. The five-volume, 4,000-page report covered a vast range of issues; its 440 recommendations called for sweeping changes to the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and governments in Canada.

Question 18

Indigenous self-government

Answer 18

Indigenous or Aboriginal self-government refers to proposals to give governments representing the Indigenous peoples in Canada greater powers of government.

Question 19

Indian Act

Answer 19

The Indian Act is a Canadian act of Parliament that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves. The Indian Act was created to assimilate Indigenous peoples into mainstream society and contained policies intended to terminate the cultural, social, economic, and political distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples.

Question 20

Residential Schools

Answer 20

In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples which amounted to cultural genocide. The network was funded by the Canadian government’s Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches.

Question 21

Civil Strife

Answer 21

violent activity such as rioting or fighting in public places, especially involving many people.

Question 22

Political globalization

Answer 22

The formation of political relationships between countries

Question 23

Standard of living

Answer 23

A common measure of the quantity and quality of goods and services to which people have access.

Question 24

Quality of life

Answer 24

The condition in people’s lives.

Question 25

Human Development Index (HDI)

Answer 25

The united Nations measure of a country’s level of development based on GDP per capita, life expectancy at birth, adult literacy, and school enrollment.

Question 26

Global interdependence

Answer 26

Global interdependence refers to worldwide mutual dependence between countries. In other words, mutual dependence at a worldwide level. One nation depends on another for something. That country also depends on another for either the same thing or something else.

Question 27

Global pandemic

Answer 27

A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.

Question 28

Westernisation

Answer 28

Westernization, the adoption of the practices and culture of western Europe by societies and countries in other parts of the world, whether through compulsion or influence. Westernization reached much of the world as part of the process of colonialism and continues to be a significant cultural phenomenon as a result of globalization.