Definitions
Grand Exchange/Columbus Exchange
Industrialization
Colonization
100
One country’s domination over another country’s economic, political and cultural institutions. The “mother country” gains power by establishing colonies in the controlled country.
What is imperialism?
100
The enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, human populations (including slaves) disease, and ideas between the Old World and the New World that occurred after 1492, the year of Columbus' arrival in the New World.
What is the Grand Exchange/Columbus Exchange?
100
Industrialization came about around the same time as this economic system was introduced.
What is capitalism?
100
In almost every case, the colonizers would try to absorb the Indigenous peoples into their culture. This process is known as--
What is assimilation?
200
A specific kind of bias that maintains the belief that European ideas, culture, and way of life are the best.
What is eurocentrism?
200
The Columbus Exchange resulted in the arrival of horses, cows, and pigs in the New World. It also resulted in the arrival of diseases such as smallpox and measles.
What are some of the positive and negative impacts that resulted owing to the Columbus exchange?
200
The invention or technology that allowed the Industrial Revolution to become as successful as it did.
What is steam power?
200
This poem was written by Rudyard Kipling and accurately sums up the Eurocentric views held by the colonizers.
What is "The White Man's Burden"?
300
An economic system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private individuals for profit, rather than by the state or monarch.
What is capitalism?
300
Measles, smallpox, influenza, typhus.
What are the diseases which had the greatest impact on the indigenous population of the New World, more so than any violence perpetrated by guns?
300
Where were often the many products produced during the Industrial Revolution sold?
What is the New World?
300
The motive for 19th century European imperialism.
What is the economic gain for the colonizers' empires?
400
The shift from the cottage industry to the factory system, which took place in 18th-century Europe.
What is industrialization?
400
The Indigenous people of the New World were forced to work for the European colonizers in order to help them gather as many resources to send back to Europe.
What is the enslavement of the Aboriginal population?
400
Why industrialization and imperialism go hand-in-hand?
What is industrialization's endless need for raw materials?
400
These were created to educate all Aboriginal youth in the European ways, to dispense with the 'Indian Problem'.
What are residential schools?
500
An act which sought to “civilize” and assimilate First Nations into the mainstream of Canadian society
What is the Indian Act?
500
Due to the deaths of large numbers of native people in Latin America, this led to a secondary solution from Africa.
What is the African slave trade?
500
Industrialization allowed for goods to become available across a country, all thanks to improved technology in this area.
What is transportation/the railway system?
500
This is current evidence of the lasting impact imperialism and specifically, residential schools, has had on Canada's Aboriginal population.
What is the low socio-economic status, what is the high rate of incarceration, what is the high unemployment rate, what is the PTSD, the substance abuse, the high percentage of fetal-alcohol syndrome, and the high percentage of missing Aboriginal women and children?
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