Chapter 5
A time when many new technologies changed the social and economic state of the world.
What is the Industrial Revolution
Name 3 countries that were involved in the Scramble for Africa.
What are Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Belgium?
The time when India came under British Rule as described by the people of India.
What is The Raj?
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
Immigration
Name two products that traded on the silk road.
What are spice, horses, gunpowder, silk, paper, jade, and glassware?
An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean sea.
What is the Silk Road?
The Berlin Conference resulted in this race for imperialism by many European countries.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This man was responsible for the independence of India.
Who is Ghandi?
Forced movement of people from their home, or country of origin.
What is displacement?
The value of all the goods and services a country produces in a year.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
When a country claims land and sends people from their country to build their own settlements
What is colonization?
Two issues that were a result of the Industrial Revolution.
What is educational, social ills, urbanization, women's rights, political changes, environmental changes, child labour, immigration, tenement houses, labour conditions?
The term the British used to describe how important India was to their empire.
What is the Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire?
Movement of African people taken against their wills across the ocean in ships, with terrible living conditions.
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
An econonic system that advocates free trade, competition and choice.
What is capitalism?
When a country conquers land and takes control of the social, economic and political rules of the native people of that land.
What is imperialism?
Something that has been passed on by those who lived in the past.
What is legacy?
When a labourer signs a contract to work without pay for 3-5 years in exchange for food, clothing, lodging and transportation.
What is endentured labour?
The process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
What is emancipation?
Two raw materials that Britain exported from Indian to manufacture in England and sell back to the people of India.
What are cotton, silk and salt?
A period that is often identified as beginning in 1492 when Chrisopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Caribbbean.
What is Historical Globalization
A way of thinking that centres on one's own race and culture. Thinking that one's own worldview is the only valid one.
What is ethnocentrism?
a reduction of population caused by natural or human-made forces.
What is depopulation?
The movement of people from one place to another of their own free will and usually temporary.
What is migration?
An economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports of raw materials and minimize imports during colonial times.
What is mercantilism?
A trading process that expanded the types of resources (foods mainly) that people could access from different countries.
What is the Grand Exchange?
This superior attitude would be shown by a person or people from Britain, France, Belgium or other countries in this area.
What is Eurocentrism?
A person who wanted to end slavery and fought for it by bringing it to the attention of the aurhorities.
What is an abolitionist
Absolute legal ownership of another person, including the right to buy or sell that person.
What is Chattel Slavery
The name of the ship that tried to claim insurance for after throwing slaves overboard. This court case led to emacipation of slavery.
What is The Zong?