GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fertile Crescent, Agricultural Machinery, Hindu Kush
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Amber road: crosscuing the silk road, can trace trade of amber all the way north and south. Stages of afro-eurasian globalizaion: sumerian civilizaion, 5,000 bce, middle eastern ascendency, 1,700-5,00 bce, 632 ce-1,200 ce, chinese ascendency, 200bce-1300 ce, civilizaions in the americas, mayan 250c-900ce b. Changes from 1900-2000: agricultural technology advanced, populaion tripled a. b. Life span in some places lengthened dramaically because of medicine/technology. India: 3 of the 13: world populaion, 1804 1b, 1927 2b, 1960 3b, 1974 4b, 1987 5b f. 1999 6b: 2012 7b (china + india = 2. 6b, structural socio-poliical changes, demographic: coninental shit of people, by 1850 europe"s pop double any other region 400m ii, yet 1975 majority of world sill lived non-industrialized. In 1900 china had pop 415 m: territorial. In 1900 most of world"s pop lived as colony of other country i: 80% world pop colonized during 20th c, poliical, 7 empires collapse at end of wwi (otoman, hapsburg, russian, german, dutch,
