Population (n): all the persons inhabiting a country, city, or other specified place
Pandemic (n): a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country or the world at a particular time
Topics on the Page
Population Growth
- Thomas Malthus and Charles Darwin
CROSS-LINK: Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
Pandemics in World History
CROSS-LINKS:
- The Plague of Justinian
- The Bubonic Plague
- The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
- HIV/AIDS.
- Smallpox and Jeffrey Amherst and the Smallpox Blankets
- Malaria, History of a Disease
Covid-19
Lost Civilizations
- The Indus Valley Civilization
- Peopling of the Americas
Cross-Link
- AP United States History Key Concept 9.2: 21st Century Technological, Demographic and Economic Changes
Library of Congress Launches COVID-19 American History Project (May 2023)
Population Growth
In 1804, the world's population was 1 billion. It is currently over 7 billion. How will the world sustain that many people going forward in the 21st century?
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
- Map of the LGBT Population in each state of the United States
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.
- 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
- How the 1918 Influenza got it’s name as the “Spanish Flu”
Social and Economic Impacts of AIDS
- How Corona has changed the world forever and how the virus will end
- Timeline of the Corona Virus from the CDC
- Corona virus and it's impact on education
- U.S Dept of Education's webpage including many resources for students and teachers
- Trump's response to Corona virus
- Xenophobia from Trump regarding Corona virus
- 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
- Mycenaean Civilization, Greece
- Moche Civilization, Peru
- Clovis Culture, North America
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| Head sculpture from the Moche civilization |
- Ancient DNA Ties Native Americans from Two Continents to Clovis, NPR (February 13, 2014)
- Dramatic Event Page: Peopling of the Americas
Why Societies Collapse? by Jared Diamond
- Environmental Damage
- Climate Change
- Hostile Neighbors
- Friendly Neighbors - Trade
- Cultural Response