Historical Globalization
What were the "Three G's" that motivated European exploration and colonization?
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This country was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
This term refers to a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
The buffalo was central to this nation's culture and way of life.
Who are Hunter's of the Plains?
This Canadian institution caused intergenerational trauma among Indigenous communities.
What are residential schools?
This exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases reshaped the world after 1492
What is the Columbian or Grand Exchange?
What were two major negative social impacts of industrialization?
Child labor & environmental destruction
This 19th-century meeting saw European powers divide Africa with little regard for existing ethnic or cultural boundaries.
What is the Berlin conference (1884-1885)
This 1876 Canadian law still governs many aspects of Indigenous life.
What is the Indian Act?
What is one economic legacy left by imperialism in Africa?
What is underdevelopment, reliance on single-resource economies, or unequal trade relationships?
Name one way historical globalization contributed to modern economic globalization.
What is the establishment of international trade routes or the creation of capitalist economic structures?
What resource was highly sought after for industrialization that Belgium extracted from the Congo?
What is rubber?
The phrase "The sun never sets on this empire" referred to the vast territories controlled by this European nation.
What is the British Empire?
This epidemic disease drastically reduced Indigenous populations after European contact.
What is Smallpox?
What term describes the belief that European culture was superior to others?
What is Eurocentrism?
Triple Play!!!
This European group used residential schools to assimilate the Indigenous Children in their colonies.
This religious organization helped them carry out their mission.
The last Residential school closed in this year.
Who are the British?
Who is the Catholic Church?
What is 1996?
This movement aimed to improve conditions for workers through collective bargaining.
What are labor unions?
This term refers to the forced transport of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
A group of six First Nations that formed a political and military alliance based on shared laws and governance in modern Ontario, Quebec and the North Eastern United States?
Who is the Six Nation Confederacy?
Due to early European exploration and conflict in North America, very little is known about this particular Indigenous group, as they are believed to have become extinct shortly after contact.
Who are the Beothuk?
This organization formed in the 1600s was one of the first multinational corporations and contributed to colonization.
What is the British East Indian Company?
This economist is known as the "father of capitalism."
Who is Adam Smith?
British imperialists like Rudyard Kipling promoted this idea that Europeans had a duty to "civilize" others.
What is the White Man's Burden?
The banning of this key cultural ceremony was part of the Indian Act's assimilation policy.
What is the Potlatch ceremony?
The arbitrary borders drawn by colonial powers in Africa contributed to what modern issue?
What are ethnic conflicts or civil wars?