The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9-12 - Ministère de l'éducation ...

– analyse the impact of Western colonization on both the colonizer and the colonized (e.g.,
enrichment and impoverishment; exploitation of resources and indigenous populations;
cultural transfers; exposure to highly contagious diseases; introduction of non-indigenous
species; assimilation and acculturation; ethnic cleansing; revival of commitment to
indigenous cultural identities)
Citizenship and Heritage
• explain how key Western beliefs, philosophies, and ideologies have shaped the West and the
rest of the world since the sixteenth century
– describe the main tenets of key modern beliefs and philosophies and explain how they
have shaped Western thought (e.g., the Reformation and Calvinism, rationalism and
empiricism, romanticism, various forms of socialism, Darwinism, Marxism-Leninism,
fascism and Nazism, liberal democracy, feminism, consumerism, environmentalism,
conflicting conceptions of globalization)
Social, Economic, and Political Structures
• analyse significant economic developments in the West and the rest of the world since the
sixteenth century
– analyse the effects of industrialization and free enterprise capitalism on the economies
and environment of the West and the rest of the world (e.g., unprecedented increase in
material wealth, creation of large factories and industrial cities, increase in resource and
market imperialism, rise of consumerism; resource depletion, air and water pollution)
– assess the consequences of international economic interrelationships that have developed
since the sixteenth century (e.g., labour and resource exploitation of poor countries,
widening disparities of economic opportunity and wealth, environmental degradation,
cultural homogenization, globalized production and marketing, revival of economic and
cultural nationalism, increased demand for rights for women and children)
World History: The West and the World, Grade 12, College
Preparation (CHY4C)
Communities: Local, National, and Global
• demonstrate an understanding of a variety of types of communities that have evolved since
the sixteenth century
– identify pivotal developments and issues in the process of urbanization and describe their
impact on the environment (e.g., development of administrative, market, commercial, and
industrial towns and cities; the rise of the metropolis and metropolitan sprawl; issues of
inner cities and suburbia; issues of law, order, and infrastructure; cycles of construction
and destruction of the urban landscape; loss of agricultural land; pollution)
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