Population (n): all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place

 

Topics on the Page

 

Population Growth

• Thomas Malthus and Charles Darwin

 

• Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution

 

Pandemics in World History

 

• The Plague of Justinian

 

• The Bubonic Plague

 

• The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

  

• HIV/AIDS

 

• Smallpox
• Link to Jeffrey Amherst and the Smallpox Blankets

 

• Malaria, History of a Disease

 

Lost Civilizations

 

• The Indus Valley Civilization

 

• Peopling of the Americas

 

 Cross-Links

 

• AP United States History Key Concept 9.2:  21st Century Technological, Demographic and Economic Changes

 

  

 

Population Growth

 

In 1804, the world's population was 1 billion.  It is currently over 7 billion.  How can the world sustain that many people?

 

  7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? a video from NPR shows population growth by continents.

 

• Population Growth by Country from the World Bank

 

The World at 7 Billion, an app from BBC that shows where you are in the history of human population on earth.

World Population Growth, 1950 - 2050, a webpage from the Population Resource Bureau with charts and vocabulary terms

 

Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (1994).

• Signed by 179 governments
• Recognized reproductive health and rights and women's empowerment and gender equality

Population and Migration, from BBC Bitesize, including 40 video clips for classroom use

 

 

United States & World Population Clock from the US Census Bureau

2015 Interactive population map from the Population Reference Bureau 

 

Population in Perspective from Hampshire College, a free social justice curriculum on population, food, the environment, & climate change

Teacher Resources on Population from the World of 7 Billion

Population Studies libguide from Dartmouth College

 

The PEW Research center projects that the population will stop growing by the end of the century. Click here to read more about it. 

 

Thomas Malthus and Charles Darwin

Thomas Malthus believed that poverty and disease were natural results of population growth.


An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

• Excerpts from Modern History Sourcebook

 

 

 

 

Charles Darwin was influenced by the writings of Thomas Malthus

 

• Historical Biography Page on Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution

 

 

 

 

 

Pandemics in World History

American Red Cross workers remove a Spanish Flu victim, 1918

The Five Deadliest Outbreaks and Pandemics in History, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Plague Homepage from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

• The Bubonic Plague

 

• The 1918 Influenza Pandemic  

 

•  How the 1918 Influenza got it’s name as the “Spanish Flu” 

  

• Social and Economic Impacts of AIDS

 

• Corona Virus (COVID19) 

 

1.  How Corona has changed the world forever and how the virus will end
2. Corona virus and it's impact on education 

• U.S Dept of Education's webpage including many resources for students and teachers 

     3. Trump's response to Corona virus  

 

  

• Xenophobia from Trump regarding Corona virus

 

     4.Systematic racism in health care and it's intersection with Corona virus 

 

 

 

Lost Civilizations

 

Skull of Indus Valley inhabitants, Photo by Royroydeb

 

12 Societies That Vanished in Mystery

 

• Indus Valley Civilization, Pakistan 
• Special Topic Page on Indus Valley Civilization

 

• Khmer Empire, Cambodia

 

• The Anasazi, New Mexico, United States
• Riddles of the Anasazi, Smithsonian.com

 

• Olmec Civilization, Mexico

 

• Aksumite Empire, Ethiopia

 

• Minoans, Crete

 

• Cucuteni-Trypillians, Ukraine/Romania

 

• Nabateans, Jordan

 

• Cahokia, Illinois, United States
• Special Topic Page on Cahokia

 

• Mycenaean Civilization, Greece
• Influential Literature Page on The Iliad and The Odyssey

 

• Moche Civilization, Peru

 

• Clovis Culture, North America

 

Head sculpture from the Moche civilization

 

• Ancient DNA Ties Native Americans from Two Continents to Clovis, NPR (February 13, 2014)

 

• See Dramatic Event Page on Peopling of the Americas

 

Why Societies Collapse? by Jared Diamond

• Environmental Damage
• Climate Change
• Hostile Neighbors
• Friendly Neighbors - Trade
• Cultural Response