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module 8

3.  In what ways has economic globalization more closely linked the world’s peoples? Reglobalization of the worlds economy is the Acceleration of circulation of goods, capital, and people meant globalization thus enabling workers to travel to other countries for employment. Transnational corporations produced & delivered goods in & to many different countries which led to diversity & exchange. Goods weren’t just staying local within he countries but it was dividing out everywhere allowing for new opportunities to come in, similar to the silk roads. Money was also mobile as foreign direct investment one country opens a factory in another for better efficiency in making products and delivering them, the short-term movement of capitol onvestors annually spent trillions of dollars buying foreign currencies and sold them quickly afte,  person credit cards began to be used also . Global stock market is the transnational corporations. What distinguished feminism ...

module 6

What international circumstances and social changes contributed to the end of colonial empires? Europe began to lose power to those other superpowers in the world those empire included the rising super power of the US and the Soviet Union. They saw the european colonial empires as old and they saw themselves as superior.  By the early twentieth century in Asia and the mid-twentieth century in Africa a second or third generation of Western-educated elite male had arisen throughout the colonial world. The men were very aware of the differences in values and practices in the european culturers compared to the other parts of the world. people began to realize thqt colonial rule was changing that how it had been in the past.  no longer viewed colonial rule as a vehicle for their peoples' progress as their fathers had, and increasingly insisted on independence now. People were now looking for independence.  What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian em...

module 5

Another pandemic that i did some research on was the bubonic plague or the "Black Plague".The black plague is the most famous and deadly plague to hit humanity because it killed between 75- 125 million people which at the time brought down the human population almost 40 percent. Today if a plague hit that hard there would only be 4 billion people left in the world which means we would lose 4 billion people.  It came from Central or east asia it was spread througbh the silk road which caused ot to spread very rapidly through Europe and it killed 30-60% of Europe's population due to the fact that medicine wasn't thriving and people didn't have the knowledge of how things were spread. Hygiene wasnt a big thing back in the 1300s so this caused the plague to thrive everywhere because being clean and having decent hygiene wasnt taught. The plague has been on and off again for centuries but until the 20th century, it wasn't completely stopped. The climate cooled...

module 3

4. What strategies did China adopt to confront its various problems? In what ways did these strategies reflect China’s own history and culture as well as the new global order? The chinese changed many systems in order to help with there problems one include the installation of the examination system that helped find candidates for there bureaucrartic systems that they were starting. They also started a self strengthening program to help traditional china but they also started to use ideas from the west to help. Many of the traditional conservative leaders were against the self strenghting programs because they feared that the older systems of power would disappear. The traditional leaders also controlled most of the industrial enterprises and they used they weren’t focusing on strengthing the nation but rather themselves. Traditional leaders didn’t believe that they needed foreign help like with materials and there industries but the new leaders realized that they needed help from...