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AP World Civilizations Ch 23 Flashcards

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321486067Industrializationthe development of industries for the machine production of goods
321486068GlobalizationThe trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world.
321486069imperialismA policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
321486070Capitalisman economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
321486071Migrationthe movement of persons from one country or locality to another
321486072Ideologiessets of beliefs about politics and society that help people make sense of their world
321486073Annexationthe formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation
321486074Proto-GlobalizationIs a period of the history of globalization roughly spanning the years between 1600 and 1800. First introduced by historians A. G. Hopkins and Christopher Bayly, the term describes the phase of increasing trade links and cultural exchange that characterized the period immediately preceding the advent of so-called 'modern globalization' in the 19th century
321486075Proto-Industrializationpreliminary shift away from an agricultural economy; workers became full- or part-time producers who worked at home in a capitalist system in which materials, work, orders, and sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to the Industrial revolution
321486076CommercializationThe transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity.
321486077NationalismPolitical viewpoint with origins in Western Europe; often allied with other "isms"; urged importance of national unity; valued a collective identity based on culture, race, or ethnic origin.
321486078counter-globalizationa term used to describe individuals also groups who protest against global trade agreements, which, they claim, only help more developed countires get richer at the exspense of less developed countries.

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