Terminology 1
The interaction of diverse cultures and perspectives, which may result in changes in values, beliefs, and traditions
What is cultural contacts
An economic system for increasing individual wealth, requiring a relatively free market, open competition, the profit motive, and at least some private ownership of the means of production
What is capitalism?
This process often involves exploiting resources, a dominant country might also spread its own culture, language, and laws and can lead to the loss of independence and suffering for indigenous people.
What is imperialism?
This a possible result of how Eurocentrism often impacts the way history is taught
What is European achievements are emphasized more than those of other cultures....
These peoples saw all living things as equal and in harmony, like a "web of life."
What is indigenous worldview?
Tthe reduction of a population because of conflict, disease, loss of resources, cultural change, or assimilation
What is depopulation?
A stage of economic development that occurs when the place of production shifts from the home and small craft shops to large
factories
What is industrialization?
This was a main goal of European exploration in the 1400s
What is power and wealth (or God, Gold and Glory)?
These two concepts support the idea of European superiority, justifying control over other regions
What are Eurocentrism and imperialism?
This led to the decline of the Silk Road
What is sea trade routes became safer and more efficient? (Or, Mongols lost control to Ottoman Empire)
The involuntary dispersal of a people, especially from their homeland
What is displacement?
An early stage of economic development in which workers produce limited numbers of goods in their homes
What is cottage industries?
This is a primary goal of imperialism.
What is to expand power by controlling land and resources?
This is a negative effect of industrialization
What is pollution, unfair worker conditions...
This is how the Silk Road contribute to early globalization
What is it connected distant regions and allowed the exchange of ideas, goods, and technologies?
The interchange of raw materials and manufactured goods among distant groups of people
What is international trade?
An association between peoples that intentionally benefits one people over another, often by laying claim to territories inhabited by Indigenous or non-Indigenous peoples, seizing land and resources through conflict and warfare, and imposing political control
What is imperialism?
An impact of imperialism that still affects Indigenous communities today
What is social inequality, economic inequality, discrimination...(other answers possible)
This is what determines prices in a free market system
What is supply and demand?
This was a main goal of mercantilism
What is government control over trade to benefit the nation? (or, to export more than import to make money for the government, or to make as much gold and silver as possible to make a government rich)?
From the 16th to the 19th centuries, a system of government-sponsored international business ventures designed to make European monarchs rich
What is mercantilism?
A belief that the European worldview is superior to all others
What is eurocentrism?
This was common direct result of Indigenous resistance to imperialism
What is: wars, violence,massacres of Indigenous populations...
This thinker argued that capitalism exploited workers and supported communism as an alternative
Who is Karl Marx?
This is the role that John Stuart Mill believed that the government should take in regards to capitalism and free market economy
What is create laws to protect workers?