What in the World is Globalization?
This process connects people across the globe through economics, politics, and culture.
What is globalization?
When someone takes on the culture of another group, often at the loss of their original culture.
What is assimilation?
This global trade route connected Europe and Asia with goods like silk and spices.
What is the Silk Road?
The rise of this technology allows people worldwide to see the same news and entertainment.
What is satellite television or the Internet?
Imperialism often led to this political and economic domination over Indigenous people.
What is colonization or imperial control?
This type of company operates in more than one country and helps drive globalization.
What is a transnational corporation?
The process by which people from different cultures live together in a respectful and diverse society.
What is pluralism or a pluralistic society?
A policy where countries gathered wealth by controlling colonies and limiting trade.
What is mercantilism?
A non-profit tried to provide these tools to kids in the developing world to help close the digital divide.
What are laptops (as in the One Laptop Per Child initiative)?
Tariff barriers and industrial protectionism in 19th-century Europe led to more of this practice.
What is colonial expansion?
This phrase, coined by Marshall McLuhan, describes how media has shrunk the world.
What is the "global village"?
This happens when a government denies someone the right to express a cultural or religious identity.
What is marginalization?
This term describes the trade and exchange of plants, animals, and food across the Atlantic after 1492.
What is the Grand Exchange?
This term describes the growing gap between those who have access to modern information and communication technology and those who do not.
What is the digital divide?
The desire for raw materials, labor, and markets helped push this 19th-century global trend.
What is imperialism?
This aspect of globalization involves music, art, and beliefs crossing borders.
What is cultural globalization?
Canada officially supports this policy by recognizing both English and French.
What is official bilingualism?
Many Indigenous peoples died from these after contact with Europeans.
What are diseases (to which they had no immunity)?
This term refers to the blending and sharing of different cultures through communication and travel.
What is cultural globalization or hybridization?
This policy forced Indigenous children to attend schools where they could not speak their language.
What are residential schools?
Name one way in which globalization challenges the uniqueness of local identities.
What is homogenization or assimilation?
Wearing traditional clothing in public in defiance of a ban could be seen as an act of this.
What is resistance or cultural revitalization?
The Renaissance helped spread culture and ideas across Europe, making it a time of increased ______.
What is exchange of ideas and trade?
When global communication tools strengthen unique cultural identities, it's an example of this benefit.
What is cultural revitalization or empowerment?
This Italian explorer's 1492 voyage led to lasting contact between Europe and the Americas, sparking the Grand Exchange.
Who is Christopher Columbus?