Chapter 9 Canadians and their government

House of Commons – https://www.ourcommons.ca/en

Senate of Canada – https://sencanada.ca/en

Liberal Party of Canada – https://liberal.ca/

Conservative Party of Canada – https://www.conservative.ca/

New Democratic Party of Canada – https://www.ndp.ca/

Bloc Quebecois – https://www.blocquebecois.org/

Canada Government Levels Game – https://learn.parl.ca/en/games/game4/index.html

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Chapter 13 Urban Patterns

Please watch the video above and answer the questions below in the response box. Remember to provide detailed descriptions, examples, and specific events from the video, thanks!

Slumming It Questions

  1. What are Diphtheria, Typhoid & Tuberculosis?

2. What is the problem with rats being not contained in urban areas? (consider the Black Death in Europe in 1346-49).

3. Dhobi Ghat – What are they? (Communal Washing Houses).

4. Religion appears to play an important part in the life of the city. What is the major religion and is their a rise of Islam?

5. 500 people per toilet – what is the problem with that? (exponential nature of the situation if a toilet breaks) 1-500 becomes 1-1000.

China’s Empty Cities

  1. Why does China have 64 million unoccupied homes? Explain a single paragraph in the response below, thanks!

Chapter 9 – Food and Agriculture

VIDEO ANALYSIS- HOW AL-SHABAAB CREATED A CRISIS IN SOMALIA

Water the following assigned video and summarize the information in one paragraph(who, when, where, why, how, make sure that you also include how Al-Shabaab created the crisis, did they resolve it? if so how?) and list them in the comment section below, thanks!

Key Issue 3 – Why Do Boundaries cause problems?

Read the following assigned article and summarize the information in one paragraph(who, when, where, why, how) and list them in the comment section below, thanks!

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/stop-blaming-colonial-borders-for-the-middle-easts-problems/279561/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/western-maryland-secessionists-seek-to-sever-ties-with-the-liberal-free-state/2013/09/08/15e97aa8-1651-11e3-804b-d3a1a3a18f2c_story.html?hpid=z8

Key Issue 3 – Why do Ethnicities clash?

1. Describe the history of ethnic self-government in Britain: Event Impact?

Act of Union between England and Wales, 1536

King James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England and Scotland (1603); Act of Union between England and Scotland, 1707

Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1801

Irish Independence, 1920

2. Describe and classify the ethnic conflicts that occur in Sub-Saharan Africa Conflict Description Classification: type of conflict,

official state response

Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1961 t0 2000

Sudan, 1980s to 2011

Somalia in the 1990s

Rwanda in the 1990s

Congo/Zaire between 1994 and 2011

Key Issue 2: Why have Ethnicities been transformed into Nationalities?

  1. provide definitions for the following terms:
    1. self-determination
    2. nation-state
    3. nationalism
    4. centripetal force
  1. Discuss the mechanism through which a nation-state can foster the national attachment of its populace.   What are examples for such mechanisms in the United States, or in South Carolina?
  1. Provide a definition for the terms “multi-ethnic state” and  “multi-national state” and provide an example for each of the following regions:
    1. East Asia
    2. South Asia
    3. Eastern Europe
    4. Western Europe
  1. List the national characteristics of the following states, distinguish them between multi-ethnic and multi-national states, and list the political problems that result from their creation after the fall of the Soviet Union:
    1. Estonia:
    2. Belarus:
    3. Ukraine:
    4. Moldova:
    5. Kazakhstan:
    6. Tajikistan:
    7. Russia

Chapter 7 Ethnicities – key issue 1 – Where are ethnicities distributed

  1. What is the chief mountain range to be found in Bhutan? (Alps Himalayas Andes Appalachians?) /1
  2. From the video, identify one unique significant thing that you have learned about Bhutan, how is it different from other countries? /1
  3. Was Bhutan ever colonized by other countries? Why or why not? /1
  4. Identify the distinctive clusters for the following population groups by region and state: /4
    1. African American:
    2. Hispanic, Latino/Latina:
    3. Asian American:
    4. American Indian/Alaska Native:
  1. Define the characteristics of the major migration flows that shaped the current distribution of African Americans by completing the table: /6
Time FrameArea of OriginPush/Pull FactorsDestination
Migration from Africa



Immigration to the North



Expansion of ghettos