Terms
A reduction in population caused by natural or human-made forces.
What is depopulation?
The era when industry became mechanized.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A Canadian general who was made peace keeping efforts in Rwanda.
Who is Romeo Dallaire?
A piece of legislation that
-controlled First Nations people was by defining who was — and was not — a status Indian.
-tried to suppress First Nations cultures by banning some traditional practices.
What is the Indian Act?
The money, expertise, supplies, and other goods given by one country to another.
What is Foreign Aid?
A term that refers to one country’s domination of another country’s economic, political, and cultural institutions.
What is Imperialism?
Black high school students in South Africa who demonstrated to demand better education.
What is the Soweto Protest/Killings?
The man who successfully led India to independence in 1947.
Who is Mohanda Ghandi?
Small loans given to people in poverty called micro loans to help start business, so they could learn to support themselves. (In India)
What is the Grameen Bank?
A measure of the strength of a country’s economy.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
This policy of strictly controlling trade.
What is mercantilism?
Mass killing of Tutsis?
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
A man who was troubled by the destruction of Indigenous culture and devoted his life to securing justice for Indigenous peoples.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
Schools where First Nations children were gathered to live, work, and study — were another important tool in the government’s assimilation policy.
What is Residential Schools?
Located where the borders of India, Pakistan, and China meet, disputed territory.
What is Kashmir?
A contract signed with a colonial employer who
would pay to transport them to the colony.
What is Indentured Labour?
Goods and ideas were exchanged along ancient trade routes.Transfer of knowledge of Indian science, medicine, literature, and mathematics to Europe occurred during this round.
What is the first round?
The man who sparked the Scramble of Africa.
Who is King Leopold?
People labelled enemy alien during the First World War.
Germany and Ukraine.
Organization with specific goals, and they try to raise public awareness and gain support in achieving those goals.
What is a NGO? (bonus points if you know what NGO's stand for?)
The idea that a variety of peoples are free to affirm and promote their customs, traditions, beliefs, and language within a society.
What is cultural pluralism?
Term for when the British government took over direct control of India.
What is the British Raj or Rule?
A man who worked along side Nelson Mandela and chaired the truth and reconciliation committee hearings in South Africa.
Desmond Tutu
A meeting between European nations to create rules on how to peacefully divide Africa among them for colonization
The amount of money earned by everyone in a country.
What is GNI? (bonus points if you know what it stands for)