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Issue 2
Historicial Globalization
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10th Grade
11/02/2011

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Cultural Contacts
Definition
The interaaction of diverse cultures and perspectives which may result in changes in beliefs, values, and traditions
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Depopopulation
Definition
The reduction of population because of conflict, loss of resources, or assimilation
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Imternational Trade
Definition
The interchange of raw material abd manufactured goods among distant groups of people.
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Imternational Trade
Definition
The interchange of raw material abd manufactured goods among distant groups of people.
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Mercantilism
Definition
From the 16th to the 19th cneturies, a systemof government-sponsered international buisness ventures designed to make Europrean monarchs rich.
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Colonialism
Definition
The controller governing influence of a nation over a depandant country, territory, or people
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Cultural Superiority
Definition
One culture believeing that they are better than another.
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Contemporary
Definition
Belonging to the same period of time
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Indentured Labour
Definition
A contract bingind one party into the service of another for a specific term
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Displacement
Definition
The invoultary disperal of a people, especially from thier homeland
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Capitalism
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An economic system that advocates free trade, compition, and choice as a means of achieving prosperity.
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Free Market
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A market in which the government would regualte nothing and all buisness and property would be privatly owned.
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Entrepreneur
Definition
People who take risks by launching buisness ventures in the hope of making a profit
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Exploitation
Definition
The use of a person or group for shelfish purposes.
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Cultural Relativism
Definition
The process of afriming and promoting peoples individual and collective cultural identity.
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Inference
Definition
Theact or process of deriving logical conclusions known or assumed to be true
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Grand Exchange
Definition
A trading process which began when Christopher Columbus brought goods to America.
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Communism
Definition
An economic or pollitical system whose purpose is to elliminate class distictions, everyone would work for the benifit of all and would recieve help as he or she need it
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Industrialization
Definition
A stage of economic development that occurs when the place of producation shifts from the home and small craft shops to large factories
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
The combination of social and economic changes brought about by the extensive use of machinery in production.
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Cottage industries
Definition
An early stage of economic development in which workers produce limited numbers of goods in their homes.
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Residential Schools
Definition
Boarding schools for the acculturation and assimilation od Aboriginal Students.
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Cross-cultural Sensitivity
Definition
Communication that occurs among people of different cultures
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Explicit
Definition
Knowledge that has been or can be codified, and stored in certain media
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Legacy
Definition
Something that has been passed on by those who lived in the past.
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Eurocentrism
Definition
The belief that European world view is superior to all others.
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Colony
Definition
A territory that belonged to Europeans, was ruled by the European government.
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
People who believe that their world view is the only valid one.
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Historical Empathy
Definition
The understanding of why people in history did what they did, as opposed to simply knowing what they did.
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Imperialism
Definition
On countrys domination over one anothers country's economic, pollitical, and cultural industritions.
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Worldview
Definition
The view on the world either an individual's or a collective, based upon there previous knowledge or understandings.
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Implicit
Definition
Unquestioning or unreserved absolute.
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Paternalistic
Definition
Treating or governing people by providing for them without giving them rights or responsiblites.
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Chattel Slavery
Definition
Slaves which are treaed as personal property; may be owned, bought or sold
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Land Claims
Definition
Legal decloration or control over areas of property or bodies of water.
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Land Claims
Definition
Legal decloration or control over areas of property or bodies of water.
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Land Claims
Definition
Legal decloration or control over areas of property or bodies of water.
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Land Claims
Definition
Legal decloration or control over areas of property or bodies of water.
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Land Claims
Definition
Legal decloration or control over areas of property or bodies of water.
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Land Claims
Definition
Legal decloration or control over areas of property or bodies of water.
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