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Impact of Diseases and Innovations on World History

Explore the profound impact of diseases like Bubonic Plague, Spanish Influenza, and AIDS on world history, alongside the technological advancements in medicine, agriculture, and population growth. Learn about the consequences of these events and the factors influencing Earth's population rise.

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Impact of Diseases and Innovations on World History

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  1. UNIT 6 Disease, Population Growth, & Technological Innovations

  2. Warm UP • Discuss @ least 3 Diseases that have impacted World History. Discuss its impact and consequences on World History • Bubonic Plague 12th- 14th centuries • Spanish Influenza 1918 • Aids 2oth century • Plague helped bring down Roman Empire in 5th century CE • Small Pox ravaged Han China (60 million to 45 million)

  3. What factors have allowed the Earth’s population rise?

  4. Medical Advances • Polio vaccination, antibiotics, improved surgical procedures, & Cancer treatments all lengthened life expectancy • New Methods of Birth Control “The Pill” • F Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin

  5. Medical advances-artificial Heart (1971)

  6. Advances in Agriculture • Green Revolution-development of powerful fertilizers & pesticides and hybrid crops which boosted food production • With more food population has also skyrocketed

  7. Criticisms of the Green revolution • Overuse of pesticides and fertilizers • Tendency to plant monocrops instead of a variety of crops • Unprecedented population growth

  8. Disease • Spanish Influenza- An estimated 30-50 million people died • 3% of the worlds population

  9. HIV/Aids • As many as 25 million people have died from AIDS in the 21st Century • In 2007 2.8 million people died of Aids, 2 million were in Africa

  10. Which colonies achieved their independence peacefully? Violently?

  11. What were the causes of the WWI? • M.A.N.I.A

  12. What do Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong have in common? • Both led communist revolutions • Both were victorious

  13. What impact did medical innovations such as the polio vaccination and artificial heart have on humans? • They allowed humans to live longer

  14. Name @ least 2 advances in military technology in time period 6 • Tanks(WWI) • Poison Gas (WWI ) • Nuclear Weapons

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