Sunday, April 19, 2020

Week 3 of Remote learning, Due April 27

Enjoy Patriot's Day Monday,  and remember where the American Revolution began

CP2 complete video 1
CP1 complete video 1 and then either or both of II and III
Honors complete all 3 video sets   I, II, III

I. Watch Crash Course European history #24, the Industrial Revolution   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjK7PWmRRyg

  1.  Bullet 5 facts from the video
Answer   8 of the following 10 questions
2. Before the IR of 1820 how did people measure time if not by the clock?
3. How did drinking hot coffee and tea help keep people healthy during the IR?
4. Match these inventors with their inventions
     ___John Kay                                                 a.  Steam Engine improvement
     ___James Hargreaves                                    b. spinning jenny
     ___John and Ellen Hocking                           c. flying shuttle
    ___Richard Arkwright                                    d. carding machine
    ___James Watt                                                e. water frame
    ___ Johann Friedrich Bottiger                         f. porcelin
5. Why was so  much spying of inventions used in the I.R.?
6.  Describe industrial oppression:  what came first profits or people?
7. List 3 adjectives describing life in a factory for children.
8. What is urbanization?  Where did people move to to find work?
9.  Why did people read newspapers out loud in cafes?
10. What is the difference between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
11. What type of swing riots did the Luddites lead? Why?
12. Why does Green say the IR was not a revolution?

II.  Watch Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats   


1. Does Hans Rosling have a positive or negative view about the changes since 1810 brought about by the Industrial Revolution?  Explain what has happened to health and wealth over this time. 
2. What is Rosling prediction about the future?  Remember that this was completed in 2009.
3. Do you agree or disagree with Rosling?  Explain your answer

III  Watch two short videos
A. Hans Rosling Yardstick of wealth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpdyCJi3Ib4 
1. How much income per day does Rosling measure extreme poverty?
2. List the levels of transportation extreme poor to extreme wealth Rosling uses.
2. Why does he say that wealty people can't distingush between extreme poverty and poverty?

Then watch Rosling How to end poverty
1. Instead of viewing the world as the rich and the poor how does Rosling want to call the majority of the world?
2.  Do you think Rosling's video shows the US and the West falling behind or Asia (tiger economies) and Africa (lion economies) catching up?
3. Does this give you hope for the future of the world? 








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