Canadian Legacies
This country was the mother country of Canada when it was colony
What is Britain?
The belief that Europeans are better than others.
What is eurocentrism?
The Rwandan Genocide lasted this long.
What is 100 days?
A person believes that their race is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
A legacy of slavery today.
What is racism?
This is what happened when the Indigenous population decreased as a result of European imperialism
What is depopulation?
The shift to a modern economy with a rapid increase in industrial production
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This group was the minority ethnic group in Rwanda who made up 90% of those killed during the Rwandan genocide.
Who are the Tutsis?
The policy of forcing a colony to trade only with the home country.
What is mercantilism?
After the abolition of slavery, the European nations wanted to conquer Africa and them doing so was called this.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
The areas of land Indigenous people were forced to live on created by the Indian Act
What are reserves?
The trade route that connected Europe and Asia, one of the earliest examples of globalization
What is the Silk Road?
This was the spark that officially started the Rwandan Genocide
What is the shooting down of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane?
The intentional killing of an ethnic group.
What is genocide?
The meeting Europeans had to decide how they would split up Africa between them
What is the Berlin Conference?
The system used to identify people as Indigenous after the Indian Act.
What is Indian Status?
The worldwide redistribution of plants, animals, and diseases resulting from the initial contacts between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
What is the Grand Exchange?
This is the number of estimated people who were killed in the Rwandan Genocide
What is 800 000 - 1 million?
The act of trying to remove one's culture and identity and forcing them to adopt another culture
What is assimilation?
The triangular trade between Africa, North America, and Europe involving the movement of slaves, resources, and goods
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
What Indigenous people thought they were doing when signing the numbered treaties with Europeans as opposed to the Europeans believing the land was being surrendered to them
What is sharing the land?
The "duty" that Europeans felt to assimilate other people into their culture and conquer them
What is the White Man's Burden?
Which European superpower controlled Rwanda after Germany lost it after WWI?
Who is Belgium?
A person who believed in getting rid of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This type of slavery meant that you were essentially considered property and as such, could be bought and sold.
What is chattel slavery?