Final Exam Review

What is Culture?

• The food, fashion, and language of a people

• A way of life or a way of being that is shared by a group of people

• A way of life that does not unite common beliefs

• None of the above

What is Ethnocentrism?

• Believing in other Gods

• Believing ones own ethnic group is better than another.

• Believing other cultures are better than yours

• None of the above

What is a pluralistic society?

• A society where people are plural

• A society where people value all cultures

• A society where people look for new technologies

• None of the above

The tradition of stories and legends being handed down from Elder to child established:

• an oral culture

• a written history

• a need for legends

• a story culture

What type of decision making did most Aboriginal societies use?

• Democratic government

• Decision making by majority rule

• Decision making by consensus

• Decision making by the elders

What is Colonization?

• when cities take control of other cities

• the process of claiming and controlling new lands and territories for one’s homeland.

• both of the above

• none of the above

The main reason for European exploration was to:

• Convert the native population to Christianity.

• Locate places to settle new people

• Find an alternate route to Asia, instead of the silk road

• Find a supply of fish and furs for Europe.

The contact between Europeans and First Nations people lead to positive trade relations. The best example of this would be:

• the coureurs de bois developing relations with First Nations people for the French fur trade

• the competition between the Hudson’s Bay Company and the French fur trade

• the French and English becoming trade partners

• the development of colonies

European contact with Beothuk impacted their society the most in what way?

• Trade was established

• The British hunted the Beothuk

• The Beothuk stole British supplies.

• Beothuk culture was wiped out by violence and disease

What event began the fur trade?

• The discovery of North America

• The desire to trade

• The cod fishery

• none of the above