Unit 9 Overview: Acceleration (9:37)
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
- 02:50 What is the Anthropocene?
- 03:50 How did travelers and merchants in the Islamic world and Indian Ocean like Ibn Mājid help later European explorers?
- 04:59 How did collective learning increase after the Columbian Exchange?
- 06:42 What are the ingredients and Goldilocks Conditions for our last threshold of increasingly complexity—the Modern Revolution?
- 08:18 How did industrialization and the use of fossil fuels lead to social and economic changes?
- 08:47 <em>Homo sapiens</em> (humans) have been around for about 250,000 to 300,000 years, but what two revolutions led our species to experience the most change in the past 11,000 years?