Unit 2

Question 1

Silk Road

Answer 1

Trading network between China and Mediterranean.

Question 2

Imperialism

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

Government controlled trade, trade must favour the home country.

Question 4

The Grand Exchange

Answer 4

Christopher Columbus returning with seeds, fruit trees and livestock in 1493, this changed the diet of the world and began the grand exchange.

Question 5

Industrialization

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Capitalism

Answer 6

An economic system based on the private ownership of the factors of production.

Question 7

Apartheid

Answer 7

A system of racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

Refers to a way of thinking that centers on one’s own race
and culture. You judge other people according to your own beliefs, customs and traditions.

Question 9

Eurocentrism

Answer 9

A worldview or belief centered on and biased towards western civilization

Question 10

Reconciliation

Question 11

Industrial Revolution

Answer 11

18th-19th century, Europe, new technology and manufacturing process.

Question 11

Deindustrialization

Answer 11

Decline in industrial activity in a region or economy.

Question 12

Assimilation

Answer 12

Cultural identity of the minority group disappears as its members take on the identity of the other culture.

Question 13

Cultural Genocide

Answer 13

Destroying a groups, language, customs, values, traditions, etc.

Question 14

Genocide

Answer 14

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Question 15

Accommodation

Answer 15

Accepting and creating space for one another, providing and equal opportunity for participation of different groups in society.

Question 16

Integration

Question 17

Acculturation

Answer 17

Cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate of adapt to each other’s worldview.

Question 18

Intergenerational Trauma

Answer 18

The psychological damage that occurs when the emotional and behavioural reactions of a traumatic event experienced by an ancestor or older relative are passed down through generations.

Question 19

Exploitation

Answer 19

The act of making use of something for ones advantage.

Question 20

Beothuk

Answer 20

An indigenous group living on Newfoundland.

Question 21

Colony

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Colonialism

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Depopulation

Answer 23

Reduction of population in an area.

Question 24

Protectorate

Answer 24

A country that is protected by a larger, stronger one.

Question 25

Urbanization

Answer 25

The concentration of human populations into distinct areas.

Question 26

Why did factory owners like child labor?

Answer 26

They were smaller (round fit into small places) and needed less food.

Question 27

Socialism

Answer 27

Government takes active role in peoples lives by providing public services and regulation business.

Question 28

Communism

Answer 28

A political and economic system that aims to create a classless society where the state controls the means of production and wealth is shared equally among citizens.

Question 29

Eugenics

Answer 29

Selective breeding of people or a human-guided “artificial selection” to replace the “blind” or ineffective processes of “natural selection” in the human realm.