Unit 2

Question 1

Silk Road

Answer 1

Trading network between China and Mediterranean.

Question 2

Imperialism

Answer 2

One’s country domination of another’s economic, political, and cultural institutions.

Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

Government controlled trade, trade must favour the home country.

Question 4

The Grand Exchange

Answer 4

Christopher Columbus returning with seeds, fruit trees and livestock in 1493, this changed the diet of the world and began the grand exchange.

Question 5

Industrialization

Answer 5

The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

Question 6

Capitalism

Answer 6

An economic system based on the private ownership of the factors of production.

Question 7

Apartheid

Answer 7

A system of racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s.

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

Refers to a way of thinking that centers on one’s own race
and culture. You judge other people according to your own beliefs, customs and traditions.

Question 9

Eurocentrism

Answer 9

A worldview or belief centered on and biased towards western civilization

Question 10

Industrial Revolution

Answer 10

18th-19th century, Europe, new technology and manufacturing process.

Question 10

Deindustrialization

Answer 10

Decline in industrial activity in a region or economy.

Question 11

Assimilation

Answer 11

Cultural identity of the minority group disappears as its members take on the identity of the other culture.

Question 12

Cultural Genocide

Answer 12

Destroying a groups, language, customs, values, traditions, etc.

Question 13

Genocide

Answer 13

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Question 14

Accommodation

Answer 14

Accepting and creating space for one another, providing and equal opportunity for participation of different groups in society.

Question 15

Acculturation

Answer 15

Cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate of adapt to each other’s worldview.

Question 16

Intergenerational Trauma

Answer 16

The psychological damage that occurs when the emotional and behavioural reactions of a traumatic event experienced by an ancestor or older relative are passed down through generations.

Question 17

Exploitation

Answer 17

The act of making use of something for ones advantage.

Question 18

Beothuk

Answer 18

An indigenous group living on Newfoundland.

Question 19

Colony

Answer 19

A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Question 20

Colonialism

Answer 20

The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

Question 21

Depopulation

Answer 21

Reduction of population in an area.

Question 22

Protectorate

Answer 22

A country that is protected by a larger, stronger one.

Question 23

Urbanization

Answer 23

The concentration of human populations into distinct areas.

Question 24

Why did factory owners like child labor?

Answer 24

They were smaller (round fit into small places) and needed less food.

Question 25

Socialism

Answer 25

Government takes active role in peoples lives by providing public services and regulation business.

Question 26

Communism

Answer 26

A political and economic system that aims to create a classless society where the state controls the means of production and wealth is shared equally among citizens.

Question 27

Eugenics

Answer 27

Selective breeding of people or a human-guided "artificial selection" to replace the "blind" or ineffective processes of "natural selection" in the human realm.