Warm-up 1/29/2015

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Warm-up 1/29/2015

• Theories of Civilization what are the two
  different ideas presented by the authors?
• Farmer Power Birth of Religions

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Announcements

• You need to obtain Collapse if you have not
  already done so.
• Media Center Days are next week.
• Unit I Test days are next week
• 2nd/4th Wednesday
• 3rd Tuesday
• We will review for the test and prep for the
  media center on Monday.

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What are issues you believe are faced by our
modern world today?
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Our Modern WorldChapter 33 Human Legacy

• How did we get here?

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• Objectives
• Students will discover trade patterns and their
  effects on the global community.
• Students will determine the impact of oil and
  Islamist movement on Middle Eastern culture.
• Students will identify threats to security of the
  modern world
• Students will investigate the ongoing struggle
  for human rights around the globe
• Students will discover the significance of
  climate change on human society.

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Trade and Globalization
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the
world was divided over a number of political,
cultural, and economic issues.
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Developed and Developing Countries

• Economy
• Goods, services nation provides and needs depend
  on level of economic development in that country
• Countries grouped in two categories developed,
  developing

• Developed
• Industrialized nations have strong economies,
  high standards of living
• 20 percent of worlds nations wealthy, powerful
  like Japan, United States
• Have access to good health care, education,
  technology

• Developing
• Less productive economies, lower standard of
  living Guatemala, Philippines
• People in these countries lack adequate
  education, health care
• Poorest, least-developed countries located mostly
  in Africa, southern Asia

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The Global North/South Divide
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Growth and Outsourcing

• Multinational Corporations
• Increasing interdependence and dramatic growth of
  multinational corporationslarge companies
  operating in multiple countries
• Benefits to companies
• Outsourcinghaving work done elsewhere to cut
  costs, increase production
• Manufacturing facilities in developing countries,
  where materials, labor relatively inexpensive
• Outsourcing
• Advocates say creates jobs and wealth in
  developing countries
• Critics say fails to improve standard of living,
  outsourcing causes job loss in companys home
  country

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Global Trade
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Middle East Issues
Over the last few decades, major conflicts have
erupted in the Middle East. Issues that have
contributed to the conflicts include the presence
of huge oil reserves, the growth of Islamism, and
the conflict between Israel and its neighbors.
However, oil has also been a source of conflict.
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Importance of Oil (Oil Diplomacy)

• Oil as source of conflict in Middle East
• Some governments have used oil revenues to build
  up military, maintain power, threaten neighbors
• Oil wealth has caused internal clashes within
  countries, societies
• Regions strategic importance as source of oil
  has led outside nations to become involved in
  Middle Eastern affairs, politics
• 1973 Oil Crisis
• That year, Egypt and Syria, with the support of
  other Arab nations, launched a surprise attack on
  Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
  
• Israel went on full nuclear alert, loading
  warheads into planes and long-range missiles.
  (Yom Kippur War)
• The United States chose to re-supply Israel with
  arms and in response, OPEC decided to retaliate
  against the United States, announcing an oil
  embargo. It lasted until March 1974.
• Consequences
• High Prices, Rationing, alternative energy
  research, Growing distrust between Oil producing
  countries and their trading partners

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Growth of Islamism
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Threats to Security
In addition to terrorist attacks, there are other
threats to global security.
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Syria Gas Attack 2013
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nuclear proliferation
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• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vIKqXu-5jw60

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Ethnic and Religious Conflicts

• Multiple Threats
• High-tech weapons threat have power to destroy,
  kill
• Ethnic, religious conflicts threat create
  willingness to destroy, kill

• Tutsi, Hutu
• 1994, tensions between Tutsi, Hutu ethnic groups
  led to massacres in Rwanda
• 1 million people killed, another 2 million became
  refugees

• French, UN Troops
• Worked to maintain ceasefire in Rwanda until new
  government could establish order
• 1998, some involved in the genocide convicted,
  executed

• Darfur
• Early 2000s, similar situation in Darfur Arab
  militias attacked African villagers
• By 2006, 400,000 killed, 2 million fled to
  refugee camps

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Statistics Rwanda 800,000-1.07 million killed
in 100 days 8,000-10,710 killed per day 334-447
killed per hour 6-7 killed per minute. Darfur,
Sudan 400,00 people have been killed in 1095
days 366 people are killed every day 15 people
are killed every hour 1 person is killed every
minute The Holocaust 6 million Jews killed in
1460 days 4,110 killed per day 171 killed per
hour 3 killed per minute
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Population Movement
The movement of people around the world has
increased dramatically in recent years. Some
people move in search of better opportunities,
while others are refugees, seeking safety in
another nation.
What happens when the environment fails?
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Human Rights
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Human Rights Abuses

• In spite of agreements, torture, slavery,
  killing, other abuses daily occurrences in some
  countries
• Most common in countries not democracies or in
  process of establishing democracy
• Some groups at greater risk than others
• People who disagree with their government
• People who are members of religious, ethnic
  minority
• Women and children

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Global Challenges
Although globalization is improving the lives of
some people, many still face major challenges
like poverty, disease, or natural disasters.
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Distance between rich and poor

• 31 in 1820
• 351 in 1950
• 721 in 1992
• 861 in 2005
• The US has the widest gap between rich and poor
  in the world

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Protecting the Environment
How do we balance growth and development with
practices that will help protect the resources
and environments we all count on?
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• Forests
• In areas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, Amazon
  region of Brazil, deforestationclearing of
  trees, taking place at rapid rate. Causes
  erosion and loss of productivity
• Trees burned, cut down to dig mines, clear land
  for farming, ranching
• Some species of animals, plants have become
  extinct as result

• Deserts
• Sahel region of West Africa, people struggling
  with desertificationspread of desert-like land
  conditions. Soil erodes and causes loss of
  productivity of the land.
• Caused partly by drought, partly by human
  activity
• Trees cut for firewood, livestock overgraze land
• Without plants, wind blows rich soil away land
  becomes useless

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Pollution
The global environment has been seriously
affected by pollution. Human beings have always
polluted their environments, but pollution did
not become a serious issue until the Industrial
Revolution.
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Medicine and Genetic Engineering

• Great medical advances took place in years
  following World War II
• Medicines, vaccines developed to prevent spread
  of contagious diseases, treat physical, mental
  illness techniques developed to transplant
  organs
• Advances in ultrasound, laser, and computer
  technology allow doctors to more easily treat
  human body

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• Questions for the Modern World
• How has globalization affected societies around
  the globe?
• Describe how oil has changed the Middle East and
  help lead to rise of the Islamist movement?
• What was the impact of the Oil embargo of 1973
  and how did this embargo affect the nations
  involved?
• Describe the many threats that are faced by all
  of us in the modern world?
• How could climate change or global warning affect
  our modern world?