Unit Two Flashcards
What is the Silk Road
The trade route that connected the east to the west exchanging cultures, ideas, goods and technologies
What are residential schools
The schools that were set up to “ kill the Indian in the child”
What are land claims
The process where indegnous assert their rights to land and the resources on it based on treaties
What is imperialism
Where a nation extends its power, and influence the acquisition, territories dominance in the establishment of colonies
What is Eurocentrism? 
 The belief that European ways and culture are the only way 
What was the scramble for Africa? 
When European powers rushed to claim, and establish colonies in different parts of Africa 
What was the scramble for Africa? 
 When European powers rush to claim, and establish colonies various parts of Africa 
What was the seigneurial system?
Was a form of land occupancy and social structure, introduced by French colonists in North America 
What was the Indian act? 
First passed in 1876
Designed to regulate the lives of indigenous people and assimilate them into settler culture
What are treaties? 
The agreement and contracts between indigenous people and the Canadian government 
What was the Berlin conference? 
A meeting where European powers regulated colonization and trade in Africa 
What are some reasons for imperialism? 
The three Gs
Exploration
More political power
Spread of religious belief 
What is ethnocentrism?
I when groups or individuals judge other cultures, according to the standards and values of their own culture 
