Unit 2 Flashcards
Cultural contacts
The interaction of diverse cultures and perspective, which may result in changes in values, beliefs, and traditions
Depopulation
The reduction of a population because of conflict, disease, loss of resources, cultural change, or assimilation
Displacement
The involuntary dispersal of a people, especially from their Homeland
International trade
The exchange of raw materials and manufactured goods among distant groups of people
Mercantilism
From the 16th to the 19th centuries, a system of government-sponsored international business ventures designed to make European monarchs rich
Capitalism
An economic system for increasing individual wealth, requiring a relatively free market, open competition, the profit motive, and at least some private ownership of the means of production
Free market
A market in which government would regulate nothing and all businesses and property would be privately owned
There’s no such thing as a completely free market
Entrepreneurs
People who take risks by launching business ventures in the hope of making a profit
Communism
A planned economic system in which government owns all means of production and all people work for government owned and government run enterprises
Exploitation
The use of a person or group for selfish purposes
Industrialization
A stage of economic development that occurs when the place of production shifts from the home and small craft shops to large factories
Industrial Revolution
The combination of social and economic changes brought about by the extensive use of machinery and production, especially in great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries
Cottage industries
An early stage of economic development in which workers produce limited numbers of goods in their homes
Imperialism
An association between people that intentionally benefits one people over another, often by laying claim to territories inhabited by indigenous or non-indigenous peoples, seizing land and resources through conflict and warfare, and imposing political control
Eurocentrism
a belief that the European worldview is superior to all others
Paternalistic
Characterized by treating or governing a people in a fatherly way, especially by providing for them without giving them rights and responsibilities
Residential schools
Boarding schools for the acculturation and assimilation of Aboriginal students, run by religious groups or government from the 1830s to the 1950s
Disaggregated
Divided into parts, as, for example, the first nations were divided from one another by the Indian act
First Nations policing policy
,Policy put into effect by the Canadian government in June 1991, to improve the relationship between Aboriginal people and police by promoting safe and secure communities and providing first Nations people across Canada with professional, effective, cultural appropriate police services that are accountable to the communities they serve
Subsidies
Financial help given by government to help support an industry
Genocide
An act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group
