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
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Population Growth
- Thomas Malthus and Charles Darwin
CROSS-LINK: Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
Pandemics in World History
CROSS-LINKS:
Covid-19
Lost Civilizations
- The Indus Valley Civilization
- Peopling of the Americas
Cross-Link
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 in Perspective from Hampshire College, a free social justice curriculum on population, food, the environment, & climate change
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.
Pandemics in World History
American Red Cross workers remove a Spanish Flu victim, 1918
The Bubonic Plague
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Social and Economic Impacts of AIDS
Corona Virus (COVID19)
- 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
Check out COVID Campus Simulation, a game made my a professor to help student learn how COVID-19 spreads.
Lost Civilizations
Skull of Indus Valley inhabitants, Photo by Royroydeb
- Indus Valley Civilization, Pakistan
- The Anasazi, New Mexico, United States
- Olmec Civilization, Mexico
- Aksumite Empire, Ethiopia
- Cucuteni-Trypillians, Ukraine/Romania
- Cahokia, Illinois, United States
- Mycenaean Civilization, Greece
- Clovis Culture, North America
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Head sculpture from the Moche civilization |
Why Societies Collapse? by Jared Diamond
- Environmental Damage
- Climate Change
- Hostile Neighbors
- Friendly Neighbors - Trade
- Cultural Response
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