Review

Should people in Canada respond to the legacies of historical globalization?

Key Issues -
To what extent did early globalization affect peoples of the world?
How did the foundations and consequences of historical globalization affect people?
In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

Under this issue, students investigated how new ideas and technological and social changes helped reshape European societies and economies and encouraged the new middle classes to expand their wealth by establishing global trade links.

Students explored, analyzed and evaluated various perspectives and points of view on how contemporary societies should respond to these legacies.

In conclusion, by contrasting the slave trade and child labour issues of the Industrial Revolution with today's slavery and child labour, this issue has compared the actions of early imperialists with contemporary globalizing forces to develop a better understanding of globalization's legacies. This enables students to assess the impacts of historical globalization on Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
                                                                                    Martin Luther King Jr.