chapter 5 and 6 Flashcards

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contempory

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living or occurring at the same time

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2
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bunce island

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an island is the sierra leona river

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3
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chattel

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an item of property other than real estate

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4
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middle passage

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stage of the triangular trade in which millions of africans were forcibly transported

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5
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raw material

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the basic material from which a product is made

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6
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legacies

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something that has been passed on by those who lived in the past

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7
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historical globalization

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a period that is often identified as beginning in the 1492, when chrisaphor columbus made his first voyage to the caribbean and ending after world war 2 when the USA and the soviet union emerged as superpowers

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colonialism

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the policy or practice of acquiring full or partical political control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically

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colonization

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the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

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imperialism

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one countries domination over another country’s ecomonic political and cultural insituations

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mercantilism

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the economic policy of strictly controlling trade within an empire to benefit the imperial power used by eurpean moraches in the 16th - 19th centuries

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12
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capitalism

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an economic system that advocates free trade competition and choice as a means of achieving prosperity

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13
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grand exchange

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a trading process that began when Christopher columbus brought seeds, fruit trees and livestocks to the americas where they were cultivated and became staples. In return native north american spices were exported to europe. this ecellange expanded to include different countries/products globally

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14
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industrial revolution

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the period between 1750 and 1850 when work became mechanized and began to occur in fa tories, the industrial revolution brought about dramatic change

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indigenous

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originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native

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16
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commodities

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hard assets ranging from wheat to gold to oil

17
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exploitation

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the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work

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eurocentrism

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the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work

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ethocentrism

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a form of ethnocentrism that uses european ethic, national, religious and linguistic criteria to judge other peoples and their cultures

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depopulation

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a reduction in population caused by natural or human forces

21
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deindustrialization

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the reduction in or loss of industries

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indentured workers

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is an employee within a system of unfree labour

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gross domestic product

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GDP - the value of all goods and services a country produces in a year. GDP s often used to measure a countries economy

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monarch

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a sovereign head of state, especially a king queen or emperor

25
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nationalism

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patroitic feeling

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civil disobedience

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resusal of a citizen to obey certain rules

27
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BC (BCE)

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before common era

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AD (CE)

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common era

29
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name the great eurpoen powers

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Britain
france
spain
dutch
Portuguese
30
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who was william wilberforce

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he was a man who worked hard to get slaverly in canada abolished

31
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abolitionist

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a person who wants a practice gone

32
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whats 80/20

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80% of the world’s population has 20% of the wealth

20% of the world’s population has 80% of the wealth

33
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indias two countries and relgions

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pakistan - muslium
india - hindu
in 1947

34
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two ways the gandhi protested to the britian

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made salt and sold it

when he stitched his own clothes

35
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the name of gandhis campaign to have the british leave india

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salt march

36
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triangular trade

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a trade between europe the caribbean and africa in which the raw materials from the caribbean would go to europe for money and be turned into manufactured goods then those goods would be sent to africa where they were traded for slave which would be sent to the caribbean

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globalization con

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Threatens the languages

Social disnergation

Smaller businesses struggle

Larger businesses have more complucamots

If one part of the world struggles it could effect everyone

Damage the environment transport

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globalization pro

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Have more diversity foods and items

Better communication

More supplies

Travel and shipping are easier

Books being made in different languages

39
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factors that helped speed up globalization

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cheap labour laws

cheap shipping