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Key Terms
Cultural Contact
Foundations of Historical Globalization
Imperialism
Legacies
100
An economic system based on free markets, profit, private ownership and competition.
What is capitalism?
100

What was at least one positive and one negative impact of cultural contact between Europeans and the First Nations peoples?

Positive: exchange of technologies, foods, culture. For example, bannock comes from the Scottish but was adopted into Indigenous culture


Negatives: depopulation, assimilation, disease, displacement

100
When a company had sole authority over an area or market.
What is a monopoly?
100
European nations valued these so much that they often fought for control over them because of the resources they hold.
What are new lands (or colonies)?
100

Long term impacts of imperialism include: 

Destabilization, one-crop economies, cultural suppression, population relocation, artificial boundaries 

200
The exchange of raw materials, goods, and services among distant groups of people.
What is international trade?
200
A First Nations group that was eliminated because of conflict with Europeans over land and resources.
Who were the Beothuk?
200
The market system whereby the monarchs of Europe got rich by hiring companies to do business in colonies. Most profit was sent back to these large, powerful companies.
What is mercantilism?
200
Happens when a stronger country take over a weaker one.
What is imperialism?
200
Mercantilism is the opposite of Capitalism. How?
What is mercantilist trade is controlled and regulated by the elite, while capitalism thrives on a free market economy with little regulation.
300
An area of land that is owned by the Canadian government but is set aside for use by First Nations groups.
What is a reserves?
300

This was central to the Boethuk people's lifestyle. They mainly survived off of this area of the environment (and this was also linked to their food source)

What are marine resources (fishing)

300
The steam engine, the power loom, and blast furnaces are all inventions that were created during the __________ __________.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The 3 main Imperial superpowers were?
Who are Spain, England, and France.
300
Residential schools were run by the Church in an effort to _______________ the First Nations people.
What is assimilate?
400

A European belief that they are superior to everyone else in the world.

Eurocentrism

400
A political system taught to the Europeans by an alliance of First Nations. It is now the political system used in Canada, USA, and Europe.
What is a democracy?
400
The founder of capitalism. Wrote the "Wealth of Nations".
Who was Adam Smith?
400
What is a sphere of influence?
What is when an outside country, usually a powerful one controls events in another nation for its own gain.
400

This country was governed under the harsh reign of King Leopold II. It’s main export was rubber, and citizens faced harsh penalties if they didn’t meet quotas 

The Congo

500

King of Belgium (r. 1865-1909). He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).

King Leopold II
500

An act passed by the government in 1876, and amended several times. Pertains only to First Nations peoples, not Métis or Inuit

The Indian Act

500
A name given to the network of trading routes that lay between the Mediterranean and China.
What is the Silk Road?
500
A land that ruled itself, but was guided by another, more powerful, country.
What is a protectorate?
500

This nation was originally colonized by the Dutch, but eventually came under British rule before gaining independence. It instituted the policy of _______, which legalized segregation 

SOUTH AFRICA, apartheid