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Recession

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period of economic decline

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Recession of 2008- What happened?

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  • increasing levels of unemployment
  • people stop spending $
  • stock market crashed
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How has the recession on 2008 changed our study of global events?

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  • changed understanding of modern society

- altered the way of thinking

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Percentage of population living in Asia, Latin America and Africa

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  • ⅔ of the world’s population

- 80%

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globalization

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the integration of markets, politics, values and environmental concerns across borders

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What factors have contributed to globalization

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internet use
need for other countries resources
emerging markets
multinational corporations

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Who benefits from globalization? Who suffers?

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the upper class benefits and the lower class suffers

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What are emerging markets?

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countries that have fast growing economies

BRIC

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Government

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institutions that are created to organize and run day to day affairs in a society

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What are the various forms of government discussed in class?

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  • Absolute Monarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Limited Monarchy
  • Dictatorship
  • Totalitarian
  • oligarchy
  • Theocracy
  • Pure Democracy
  • Representative Democracy/ Republic
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oligarchy

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rule by a small group of elite (wealthy) citizens

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Theocracy

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rule by a religious group or individual

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Pure Democracy

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the people have complete control

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How do governments distribute power?

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  • Unitary
  • confederation
  • federalism
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unitary

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1 national government and that’s it

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confederation

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a union of independent sovereign states

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federalism

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shared power

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What are the various economic systems discussed in class?

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  • capitalism
  • socialism
  • mixed economy
  • communist
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capitalism

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-everything is private owned
-no minimum wage
-very little to
no government involvement

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socailsim

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  • redistributes wealth- government provides more
  • more government control
  • road towards communism
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mixed economy

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  • some government involvement
  • between socialism and communism
  • U.S.
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communism

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-classless society
complete government control (command economy)
-equally distributed wealth
-everyone works for government

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economy

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the means by which a society produces, distributes, and consumes limited resources, money and wealth

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Culture

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set of beliefs, traditions, and behaviors that a group of people express and hold

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What is political culture?
shared beliefs, customs, traditions that relate to politics in a society
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state
a population of people living in a defined territory that has a government that is sovereign
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nation
A group of people that identify as a political community because of common cultural, social, historical or political bonds
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what was the middle east historically called
eurocentric
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who has ruled over the middle east
Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Hittites, Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian, Roman, Islamic conquest, Ottoman Empire
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Effects of colonization? Effects of thousands of years of takeover?
- occupation led to a distrust of western Europe throughout the Arab world - conflicts on the region - religion
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What happened to the Middle East after WWI?
Ottoman Empire broke up and many countries became independent
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what happened to the Middle East after WWII?
states of Israel was crated
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Significance of 1948? What happened?
Created the state of Israel and over time, the land occupied by the palestinians shrunk
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict slides
Extremists (terrorists)- Hamas | More peaceful -Fata
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How has the Israeli-Palestinian conflict affected the region?
- a lot of fighting - racism and hatred from Jews to Palestinians and vise versa - Palestine has lost a lot of territory in Israel
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5 Pillars of Islam
1. Prayer 5 times a day 2. Pilgrimage to Mecca 3. Giving of Alms 4. Fasting during Ramadan 5. Profession of Faith (there is one God and Mohammed is the Prophet)
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Interpretation of the word “jihad?”
- Jihad (In Koran)- struggle to defend your religion and to expand the religion peacefully; - 90%- interpretation of that - 10%- think that means violence (ISIS)
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Islamism
set of beliefs that Islam be the center of the political, social, and personal life. Also known as “Political Islam”
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Arab Spring
series of protest throughout the middle east. People seeking democratic forms of government, more rights.
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parties involved in Syrian Civil War
- Syrian Government side- President Assad, Russia and Iran - Rebel groups- Free Syrian Army, Saudi Arabia, United States, Britain, France - Fights everyone- ISIS
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result of civil war in Syria
over 50% of the population has fled the country
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What is the UNHCR?
- United Nations High Commission for Refugees | - The branch of the U.N that runs the refugee camps- underfunded
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migrant
A person that moves to a different country NOT because of persecution
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IDP
(Internally Displaced Peron) a person who is forcefully uprooted within his. her country but has not crossed the border
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host country
the country in which refugees locate
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asylum
shelter or protection from danger granted by a country to someone forced to leave their home country
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tribalism
the state or fact of being organized in a tribe
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Traditional African art and its impact on modern art
linked with religion, art used in rituals, also served as an aesthetic purpose
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animism
the identification of a soul that manifests in an inanimate object
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Slavery...why?
As Europeans began to colonize the New World, they needed labor to work the plantations
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triangular trade
the trade that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodity
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middle passage
sea journey taken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies
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paternalism
the policy on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates’ supposed best interests.
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white man's burden
the task that white colonizers believed that it was their job to impose their civilization on the black natives
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Why are religion statistics misleading in sub-Saharan Africa?
because they say they practice Christianity so as not to be punished by the colonizers but they secretly practice their own religions
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How did traditional African religions and practices come to the new world?
slavery
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What was the significance of the Berlin Conference of 1885?
European powers divided up Africa to avoid war
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3 major reasons for European colonialism in Africa?
Natural resources, money and to spread culture
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What was gunboat diplomacy?
foreign policy that is supported by the use or threat of military force.
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Discuss the differences in colonization strategies of Britain, France and Belgium.
- Britain: looking for natural resources, money, rule- leave to regional (governor) - France: assimilation- spread culture and influence, made natives loose way of life - Belgium: want resources, make money, treated Africans BRUTALLY, Rwanda Genocide, believed in social darwinism.
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What happened to many colonized Africans during World War I and II?
they were left poor and divided, instability led to warfare and famine
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Why did the European powers leave Africa after WWII?
because they had run out of money from the war
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Why is the investment in bio-fuels controversial in sub-Saharan Africa?
because they take land away from food- crop production, and in some cases are actually produces with staple food crops.
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How has the New Scramble for Africa been a mixed blessing?
because while it is helping the African infrastructure, it isn’t helping the economy because it isn’t establishing jobs for the people

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