AP World Civilizations Ch 23 Flashcards
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321486067 | Industrialization | the development of industries for the machine production of goods | |
321486068 | Globalization | The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world. | |
321486069 | imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. | |
321486070 | Capitalism | an 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. | |
321486071 | Migration | the movement of persons from one country or locality to another | |
321486072 | Ideologies | sets of beliefs about politics and society that help people make sense of their world | |
321486073 | Annexation | the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation | |
321486074 | Proto-Globalization | Is 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 | |
321486075 | Proto-Industrialization | preliminary 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 | |
321486076 | Commercialization | The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity. | |
321486077 | Nationalism | Political 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. | |
321486078 | counter-globalization | a 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. |