Foundations of Globalization
This term refers to the process of the world becoming more connected through trade, migration, technology, and cultural exchange.
What is globalization?
This term means one country taking political, economic, or cultural control over another region.
What is imperialism?
This term refers to the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Grand Exchange?
This term means judging other cultures by the standards of your own culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
This trade involved Europeans and First Nations exchanging goods such as beaver pelts, tools, weapons, and clothing.
What is the fur trade?
This term means the long-lasting effects of an event or historical process.
What is a legacy?
This European king personally controlled the Congo Free State.
Who was King Leopold II?
What is Round 1 of globalization?
This round of globalization involved early trade routes like the Silk Road.
People being involuntarily moved from their homes because of war, government policies, or other societal actions
What is displacement?
Europeans wanted colonies partly because they needed these for trade, manufacturing, and wealth.
What are raw materials/resources?
This term means the major decline in population due to disease, violence, starvation, or forced labour.
What is depopulation?
These schools were created to assimilate Indigenous children by separating them from their families, languages, and cultures.
What are residential schools?
This system in South Africa separated people by race and gave power and privilege to white South Africans.
What is apartheid?
Before leaving India, the British draw a line separating India and Pakistan. What was this called?
What is The Partition?
What is Round 2 of globalization?
This round of globalization began with European exploration and colonization after first contact.
These advantages allowed Europeans to build empires across the world.
What are advanced weapons, ships, navigation, and disease resistance?
This economic system is based on private ownership, competition, profit, and free markets.
What is capitalism?
This happened when colonized countries lost their local industries because imperial powers controlled production and trade.
What is deindustrialization?
These agreements were understood differently by Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government.
What are the Numbered Treaties?
This term means the deliberate attempt to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
What is genocide?
The rest of the world imposed "these" on South Africa to help stop Apartheid
What are Economic Sanctions
What is Round 3 of globalization?
This round of globalization began after World War II and includes modern technology, global trade, and multinational corporations.
This belief that European culture was superior helped justify imperialism and empire building.
What is Eurocentrism?
This revolution changed societies from farming-based economies to factory and machine-based economies.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
System of contracted, often exploited, bonded labour, predominantly used by the British Empire from the 1830s to the early 1900s following the abolition of slavery
What is indentured labour?
This Canadian law controlled many aspects of First Nations life and defined who had legal “status.”
What is the Indian Act?
The systematic, often violent, forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a specific area.
What is Ethnic Cleansing?
This was the brutal ocean journey enslaved Africans were forced to take from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This invention helped spread ideas faster, increased literacy, and allowed information to travel across Europe more quickly.
What is the Gutenberg printing press?
This event involved European powers dividing up Africa without African representation.
What was the Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa?
This economic system focused on colonies providing raw materials to the mother country while buying finished goods from it.
What is mercantilism?
This type of slavery treated enslaved people as property and was often passed down from parent to child.
What is chattel slavery?
These are ongoing legal efforts by Indigenous peoples to have rights to land recognized.
What are land claims?
These community courts were used in Rwanda to help deal with the large number of people accused after the genocide.
What are gacaca courts?
These Indian soldiers worked for the British East India Company and later rebelled.
Who were the Sepoys?