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Unit 9 Overview

Unit 9 Overview

We are increasingly tied together in a globalized system, but do these connections lead to more equality and shared experiences over time or just more inequality?

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?