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What is the main question for unit two? |
To what extent should contemporary society respond to the legacies of historical globalization? |
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What is absolutism? |
A political system in which power and the right to rule belongs exclusively to the socially elite. |
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What was the policy of the South African government from 1948 to 1990 that denied rights to non-White citizens called? |
Apartheid. |
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What is capitalism? |
An economic system designed for increasing individual wealth, requiring a relatively free market, open competition, the profit motive, and at least some private ownership of the means of production. |
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What is the practice of not allowing someone or something into your country, also known as a policy that separates people from one another known as? |
A "closed door" policy. |
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What is communism? |
A planned economic system in which the government owns all means of production and all people work for government-owned and government-ran enterprises. |
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What is an early stage of economic development in which workers produce limited numbers of goods in their homes called? |
Cottage Industries. |
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What are the interactions of diverse cultures and perspectives which may result in change of values, beliefs, and traditions called? |
Cultural contacts. |
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What is depopulation? |
The reduction of a population because of conflict, disease, loss of resources, cultural change, or assimilation. |
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What is a word that describes something that is divided into parts, as, for example, the First Nations were divided from one another by the Indian Act? |
Disaggregated. |
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What is the involuntary dispersal of people, especially from their homeland called? |
Displacement. |
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Who are Entrepreneurs? |
People who take risks by launching business ventures in the hope of making profit. |
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What is the belief that the European worldview is superior to all others called? |
Eurocentrism. |
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What is the use of a person for selfish reasons called? |
Exploitation. |
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What is the EZLN? |
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation; a revolutionary leftist political and militant group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. |
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What is a market in which the government would regulate nothing and all businesses and property would be privately owned called? |
A free market. |
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What is imperialism? |
An association between peoples that intentionally benefits one people over another, often by laying claim to territories inhabited by Indigenous or Non-Indigenous peoples, seizing land and and resources through conflict and warfare, and imposing political control. |
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What is a stage of economic development that occurs when the place of production shift from the home and small craft shops to large factories called? |
Industrialization. |
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What was the Industrial Revolution? |
It was the combination of social and economic changes brought about by the extensive use of machinery during production, especially in Great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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What is international trade? |
The interchange of raw materials and manufactured goods among distant groups of people. |
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What was the system of government, from the 16th to 19th centuries, in which government-sponsored international business ventures were designed to make European monarchs rich called? |
Mercantilism. |
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What is paternalistic? |
It is characterized by treating or governing people in a fatherly way, especially by providing for them without giving them rights and responsibilities. |
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What does redress mean? |
To commit an action in an attempt to right past wrongs. |
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What were Residential Schools? |
Boarding schools for the acculturation and assimilation of Aboriginal students, run by religious groups or the government from the 1830s to the 1950s. |
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What is financial help given by the government to help support an industry called? |
Subsidies. |
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What is a world view? |
A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world; the way we interpret the past, understand the present, and imagine the future. |
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What does Capitalism value? |
Capitalism values respect for profit, economic freedom, competition, personal responsibility, and consumerism. |