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| The interaction of diverse cultures and perspectives, which may result in changes in values, beliefs, and traditions. |
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| The reduction of a population because of conflict, disease, loss of resources, cultural change, or assimilation. |
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| the interchange of raw materials and manufactured goods among distant groups of people. |
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| A policy followed by European imperial powers from the 16th to the 19th century. In colonies, trade was strictly controlled to benefit the economy of imperial power. |
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| The involuntary dispersal of a people, especially from their homeland. |
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| An economic system that advocates free trade, |
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| A market in which government would regulate nothing and all businesses and property would be privately owned. |
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| People who take risks by launching business ventures in the hope of making a profit. |
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| The use of a person or grouop for selfish purposes. |
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| A trading process that began when Chistopher Columbus brought seeds, fruit trees, and livestock to the Americas, where they were cultivated and became staples. In return, native North American species were exported to Europe. This exchange expanded to include different countries and products around the world. |
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| An economic and political system whose purpose is to eliminate class distinctions. Everyone would work for the benefit of all and would receive help as he or she needs it. |
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| A stage of economic development that occurs when the palce of production shifts from the home and small craft shops to large factories. |
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| The combination of social and economic changes brought about the extensive use of machinery in production, especially in Great Britian in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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| An early stage of economic development in which whorkers produce limited numbers of goods in their homes. |
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| boarding schools where First nations children were gathered to live, work, and study. These schools were operated or subsidized by the Canadian government as an important element of the government's assimilation policy. The late residential schools closed in 1996. |
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| Cross-cultural Sensitivity |
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| Something that has been passed on by those who lived in the past. |
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| A form of ethnocentrism that uses European ethnic, national, religious, and linguistic criteria to judge other peoples and their cultures. |
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| A territory that belonged to a European country, was ruled by the European government or its representative(s), and was completely subject to that European country. |
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| A word that combines "ethnic" and "centre". It refers to a way of thinking that centres on one's own race and culture. Ethnocentric people believe that their worldview is the only valid one. |
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