Concept Board Tesday class 2- 4 by Jess

Industrialisation

jessica_mills2 — 2015-06-23 00:12:07 UTC

Industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one, involving the extensive reorganization of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. Industrialization took place from the mid 18th - 19th century.

The industrial revolution was the transition to the new manufacturing process.

Decolonisation

jessica_mills2 — 2015-06-23 01:19:31 UTC

The act of changing from colonial to independent status. The controlling power would remove itself from their colony.

Capitalism

jessica_mills2 — 2015-06-23 01:19:46 UTC

The dominant global economic system characterised by the private

ownership of the means of produaction as opposed to state ownership.

Racism

jessica_mills2 — 2015-06-23 01:20:54 UTC

Racism is a product of capitalism. it was created to justify western and white domination.

Racism is a form of oppression - discrimination against people in the grounds that some inherent characteristic- like skin color. It was established by the end of the end of the 17th century with the beginnings of the slave trade.

Democracy

jessica_mills2 — 2015-06-23 01:21:03 UTC

- right to vote

-equal rights

- the Greeks were the first to make it happen

Nation State

jessica_mills2 — 2015-06-23 01:28:51 UTC

Definition

Nation State is a geographical area that can be identifies as deriving its

political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign nation. It refers to a socio-cultural entity,

a union of people sharing who can identify culturally with each other.

It originated with Queen Isabelle expelling the Moors in 1502. Then the first modern one came

into being with the French revolution.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-formation-of-modern-nation-states.html

Colonisation

jessica_mills2 — 2015-06-23 01:30:15 UTC

Colonaisation is the forming of a settlement or colony by a group of people who

seek to take control of territories or countries. Usually involving large scale immigration

of people to a new location and expand their civilisation and culture into that area.

-linked to the spread of Europe world wide

-Sttlers regarded/ treated their new found lands as unihabited/ a 'clean-slate' for their colonial rule.

Globalisation

jessica_mills2 — 2015-06-23 06:20:19 UTC

The process by which business or other organisations develop international influences or start operating

an an international scale.