NOTE THE POLITICAL,
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND OTHER
EXAMPLES OF GLOBALIZATION
AS YOU GO!
Unit 2
The Big Picture
4.2m to 1BC/BCE
Curriculum
 2.1 recognize and appreciate historical and contemporary
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consequences of European contact, historical globalization
and imperialism on Aboriginal societies
2.2 exhibit a global consciousness with respect to the human
condition
2.3 accept social responsibilities associated with global
citizenship
2.4 recognize and appreciate the validity of oral histories
2.5 recognize and appreciate various perspectives regarding
the prevalence and impacts of Eurocentrism
2.6 examine impacts of cultural contact between Indigenous
and non-Indigenous peoples (exchange of goods and
technologies, depopulation, influences on government and
social institutions)
2.7 explore the foundations of historical globalization (rise of
capitalism, industrialization, imperialism, Eurocentrism)
 2.8 explore the relationship between historical globalization
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and imperialism
2.9 examine multiple perspectives on the political, economic
and social impacts of historical globalization and
imperialism
2.10 examine imperialist policies and practices that affected
Indigenous peoples (British rule in India, British and French
rule in Canada, post-colonial governments in Canada)
2.11 analyze contemporary global issues that have origins
in policies and practices of post-colonial governments in
Canada and other locations (consequences of residential
schools, social impact on Indigenous peoples, loss of
Indigenous languages, civil strife)
2.12 evaluate various attempts to address consequences of
imperialist policies and practices on Indigenous peoples in
Canada and other locations
2.13 examine legacies of historical globalization and
imperialism that continue to influenceglobalization
FIRST PHASE OF
GLOBALIZATION –
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Imperial Rules
 Never fight a land war in ____________
without local backing
 He who has the newest weapons and
the most ____________ makes the
rules, and if you are not European –
have them sell you ____________ and
train your army because they can
always use more gold!
Prehistoric Humanity
 Debate between creationists and
evolutionists about start date of
humanity (as well as old and short
Earth creationists).
 Disagree until after ____________
BC (BCE) - all anthropological
evidence prior
 Debate about the start of
Globalization: From the first city
state of Uruk to Genghis Khan
Anthropological Timeline
 4.2m – bipedal hominid emerge
 2m – tools
 1.8m – Homo erectus emerge
 1m fire
 spread from Africa to Asia and Europe after
900 000
 100 000 Homo sapiens emerge
 then to Australia (40 000) and North America
(25 000)
 35 000 fully modern humans emerge
 not until during the last ice age that (20 000
to 10 000 BC) real change in behavior
begins to happen
  complex ____________
____________– communal burial
  stone tools
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____________ and ____________
emerge
 ____________ trend = settlement and
domestication of plants and animals
Early Settlement
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11 000 BC pottery developed in
____________ –
archeological
benchmark
  by ____________ BC almost all large
animals (mastodons and mammoths) hunted
to extinction
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____________ BC creationist start of
humanity
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____________ of animals first (goats,
sheep, cows, horses, dogs) and then
cereal crops (wheat, barley, oats, rice) –
have to settle to grow.
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____________ food production allowed
people to experiment and do other things –
ie metallurgy, pottery, and trade by coastal
shipping – classes develop along
professions and to regulate trade
  settlement in 5 main areas: (flood plains –
rudimentary irrigation developed)
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Tigris/Euphrates - ____________
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Nile – ____________
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Indus – ____________
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Yellow – ____________
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____________ (Mexico) and
____________– USA (later)
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Tended to be ruled by a priestly elite or
divine king (pharaoh)
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Constructed elaborate monuments
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____________ BC – ____________
becomes the first citystate
  3200 BC – hieroglyphic ____________
system developed
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Roman alphabet has its roots in Egyptian
pictographs via the Greeks and Phoenicians
Allows the passing of ideas from one
generation to the next allowing
advancement
 ____________ and ____________
emerge as the first organized states (3000
BC) but are in decline as the Greeks finally
emerge as a power in 1200BC
 Greek “dark age” matches the time when
the ____________ Testament has a lot to
say.
  Trojan War fought ~1200BC – Homer
records the war 800 years later in the Iliad
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Ancient Greek dark ages 1100 to 900
BC – void of organized civilizations
replaced by barbarian rule – in all places
except the Old Testament
  950 ____________ Empire the first to
arise out of the dark age and straddles the
Nile and the Tigris/Euphrates at its height
(670) – declines after
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____________ begin their ascent and
colonization, Homer’s Iliad first written
down, Rome founded by Romulus in 753
 600 first Greek ____________
Early Classical Age – 525 to 1 BC
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525 ____________ Empire conquers
Egypt and becomes the largest the world has
ever known spanning from the first Indian
states to the Greek City states
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federation (defn) of satrapies ruled by
governors at the pleasure of the Emperor (so long
as they pay an annual tribute)
510 Etruscan over lordship ended ____________ republic est.
Greece
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505 democracy est. in Athens
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____________ leaves a legacy affecting
western civilization like no other in:
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Science
Philosophy
Political thought
Architecture
Democracy
many wars between Greek city-states –
briefly united against ____________
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variety of government styles from tyranny,
monarchy, and in the sole case of Athens
and the city-states that they occupied
____________
  only ____________ citizens could speak
or vote in meetings and could afford to spend
a great deal of time in meetings because
____________ labour and women did the
majority of the work
  slaves acquired in “wars” with other city
states and were often the reason for these
conflicts
  most “wars” were fought during the winter
because the men were needed to
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____________ tactics – pushing match
with
shields and spears
  The Peloponnesian War (Athens vs.
Sparta) was inconclusive and plunged the
Greek city-states into disarray until
____________ of Macedon conquered and
united them
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____________ the Great (son of Philip II)
led a non-stop 13 year conquest of the
Persian Empire and beyond
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Spread from Egypt and Greece to the
Hindu Kush in India – spread
____________ and goods
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____________” to defeat the much larger
armies of Darius III of
Persia
  Died suspiciously (323) and his empire
disintegrated into ____________
kingdoms lead by generals leaving the door
open to conquest by ____________ who
adopted much of what the Greeks had
achieved including adopting their language
(Revelations)
Rome
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By 264 ____________ had overcome the
Etruscans and Carthaginians (95 yr struggle)
____________ system of military organization
leads to dominance
Grew too rapidly for the republican government
to cope and ____________ wars broke out
____________ ____________(and 1st
triumvirate) temporarily assumed power but
was assassinated in 44 BC on the Ides of
March – more civil war
 Institutes basis of the modern calendar
 Burned Great Library dealing with Ptolemy–
____________ (later Augustus –
“revered”) ceases power through
the second triumvirate, ends the
Roman Republic, and reunites the
Roman Empire and lead two
centuries of peace
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Roman Peace)
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 Makes August the same length as June
 Final amendment to the Julian calendar
(Orthodox Church – 3 days out every 400
years because no leap years)
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Conquered the Amazons (matriarchal)
Used ____________ and built ____________
to promote trade and move their legions
 Roman roads stretch 88 000 km and support Europe
until the end of the Middle Ages and many modern
highways are built on them
China
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____________ Chinese Empire distinctively
Chinese in economic, political, and societal
structure
 The teachings of ____________ promote good
government and discourages conflict
 Not until 226 that China was forcibly united
 206 the ____________ Dynasty emerges as the
most powerful and expansionist state in Asia
 spans from Korea to Vietnam to central Asia
 New ____________ ____________ built
 Buddhism begins to take root
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World’s population still consists largely of
____________ hunters (250m)
Early Greek
Late Egyptian
Art
Poseidon
Zeus or Neptune
Religion
Jupiter
Architecture
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