Unit 9 - Globalization

What was the leading cause of the unprecedented increase in global population in the twentieth century?

• The end of international epidemics

• Global warming and other types of climate change

• The impact of medical innovations and public health measures

• The reduction of world hunger

By 1980 most industrialized countries reached a fairly stable population level, but population growth in non-industrialized countries continued at a very high rate. The most likely explanation for this difference is that:

• farmers in industrialized countries concentrated on growing crash crops for export rather than food crops for

  domestic consumption

• children are a more important source of labor in agricultural than in industrial societies

• the “green revolution” was rejected by industrialized countries but embraced by non-industrial countries

• climatic shifts resulting from global warming have caused population decline in the industrialized countries

“While the dynamic force in Globalization 1.0 was countries globalizing and the dynamic force of Globalization 2.0 was companies globalizing, the dynamic force in Globalization 3.0 — the thing that gives it its unique character — is the newfound power for individuals to collaborate and compete globally.”

                  -Thomas Friedman, journalist, 2005

Q: Which of the following contributed most to the process that Friedman labels Globalization 3.0?

• The invention of the Internet and the increased availability of personal computers

• The creation of multinational corporations and international stock markets

• The United Nations’ adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• The creation of supranational entities such as the European Union

The increase of carbon dioxide emissions from the 1960s onward was caused PRIMARILY by the:

• increased use of petroleum and other fossil fuels

• destruction of rain forests and expansion of deserts

• development of genetically modified crops

• development of genetically modified crops

By 1200 C.E. improved agricultural technology had spread throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa primarily through the:

• expansion of the Sahara Desert, which forced Berber peoples to move south

• migration of Bantu-speaking peoples with their knowledge of ironworking

• discovery of gold that provided a means of exchange among groups

• development of oxen immune to diseases carried by the tsetse fly