Active Recall Practice - 9.1-9.3

Which of the following was NOT an important technological development in the period of globalization?

• The radio

• Birth control

• The telegraph

• Shipping containers

Two important effects of the Green Revolution were...

• Supporting an increased population while spreading chemical agriculture

• Supporting an increased population while spreading information through the internet

• Declining the population while spreading chemical agriculture

• Supporting an increased population while increasing the availability of vaccines

Diseases like alzheimers and heart disease are best associated with which of the following historical developments?

• Poverty and wealth inequality

• The spread of epidemic disease

• The increase in the average lifespan of humans

• Both A and C are correct

Deforestation and desertification caused by human activity have led to which of the following developments?

• Increase competition for scarce resources

• Global warming and climate change

• The developments of the Green Revolution

• Both A and B are correct

One significant economic feature of the period of globalization was...

• the increase in desertification and deforestation

• the spread of new diseases associated with poverty, epidemics, and longevity

• the spread of free-market economic ideas

• the growth and spread of rights-based discourses

With the growth of ______ economies in places like Japan and the US, _______ economies increasingly moved to Asia and Latin America.

• manufacturing, knowledge

• knowledge, industrial

• advanced, manufacturing

• knowledge, manufacturing

Rights-based discourses and calls for reform during globalization included all of the following developments EXCEPT...

• The Negritude movement

• Increasing access to education and right to vote for women

• the spread of apartheid in South Africa

• Movements against environmental and economic inequalities like Greenpeace

Activism against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are examples of which of the following developments?

• The spread of rights-based discourses

• Resistance to globalization and its economic effects

• The development of new global institutions

• The development of new innovations and technology

The increasing globalization of culture included which of the following?

• The spread of consumer culture

• The spread of free-market economics

• The spread of social media like Facebook and Twitter

• The emergence of global sports events like the World Cup and the Olympics

• The spread of epidemic diseases like HIV/AIDS and Covid-19