Mercantilism
This economic system, dominant in the 16th–18th centuries, emphasized accumulation of wealth through state control of trade and colonies. Name it.
Mercantilism
Define Imperialism
Imperialism: policy of extending a country's power through conquest or economic/cultural domination.
What name is given to the late-19th-century rush by European powers to claim African territory?
The Scramble for Africa.
Give one example of a legacy of historical globalization that still affects Canada today.
Indian Act, residential schools, land loss, ongoing socioeconomic disparities, legal disputes over treaties.
What was the term for the part of the triangle of trade from Africa to the America's?
The middle passage
Explain one way mercantilism encouraged European imperial expansion.
Encouraged expansion to secure colonies for raw materials and markets; strengthened state power through trade monopolies.
Define "Eurocentrism.
Eurocentrism: tendency to view world history and culture from a European perspective as central or superior.
Name one political or diplomatic event (conference or agreement) that formalized division of Africa among European powers.
Berlin Conference
This is the act established the identity of those who did and did not have "indian" status.
Indian Act
The term for moving manufactured goods from Europe to trade for African enslaved people who were sent to Africa to produce raw materials for Europe.
The triangle of trade
Identify a mercantilist policy (e.g., tariffs, navigation acts) and describe how it benefited the imperial power.
Example: Navigation Acts — restricted colonial trade to benefit the mother country.
Define "depopulation"
Depopulation: significant decline in a population (often through disease, displacement, or conflict) after contact.
Describe one social or economic consequence of the Scramble for Africa for African societies.
Loss of sovereignty, forced labor, disruption of local economies, new borders dividing ethnic groups.
Explain how residential schools are an example of imperial legacies and list one long-term consequence for Indigenous communities.
Residential schools sought cultural assimilation; long-term effects include intergenerational trauma, loss of language and culture, social problems.
Identify one lasting social or economic effect of slavery on colonized populations.
Empires depended on enslaved labor for cash crops, which financed expansion and reinforced racial ideologies to justify domination.
Describe how mercantilism affected Indigenous economies in a North American region after European contact.
Disrupted Indigenous trade networks; introduction of European goods altered local economies; dependence on fur trade led to overhunting in some regions, Move towards Capitalism
What is an "oral history," and why is it important when studying Indigenous perspectives?
Oral history: spoken accounts passed between generations; crucial for Indigenous perspectives often absent from written colonial sources.
What was the main resource that Belgium harvested in the Congo?
Rubber
How many of the Truth and Reconciliations calls to action are completed today? (over or under 50%)
under 50%
This small island country had the biggest and most open slave rebellion in the late 1700s early 1800s.
Haiti
how did mercantilism contributed to the long-term global trade and economic inequality.
Created colonial trade patterns favoring Europe and laid groundwork for unequal exchange of goods
Genocide
The intentional eradication or displacement of a race, ethnicity or religion
What was the system that institutionalized racism in South Africa?
apartheid
The term for the system that forcefully removed Indigenous children into the foster system?
60's scoop
The country that received almost half of the enslaved people from Africa
Brazil