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Unit 9 Overview: Globalization (10:26)

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.

Key Ideas

Think about the following questions as you watch the video


  1. 01:18 How does the child mortality rate from 1800 to the present show us that advances in medicine have been unequal?
  2. 03:23 Why is the period after 1945 sometimes referred to as “the Great Acceleration”?
  3. 04:06 How has globalization created a “flatter” world and how has it created a “lumpier” world?
  4. 05:55 How has globalization positively and negatively affected cultural developments and interactions?
  5. 06:57 How is climate change a shared global problem and an unequally shared problem?
  6. 09:57 How has globalization and climate change impacted malaria?