Unit 9: Globalization
C. 1900 - Present / Exam Weighting: 8-10%
Topic 9.1 Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900
Learning Objective
Explain how the
development of new
technologies changed
the world from 19
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Unit 9: Globalization
C. 1900 - Present / Exam Weighting: 8-10%
Topic 9.1 Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900
Learning Objective
Explain how the
development of new
technologies changed
the world from 1900
to present
Historical Developments
New modes of communication—including radio
communication, cellular communication, and the
internet—as well as transportation, including air
travel and shipping containers, reduced the
problem of geographic distance.
Energy technologies, including the use of
petroleum and nuclear power, raised productivity
and increased the production of material goods
More effective forms of birth control gave
women greater control over fertility, transformed
reproductive practices, and contributed to
declining rates of fertility in much of the world
The Green Revolution and commercial
agriculture increased productivity and sustained
the earth’s growing population as it spread
chemically and genetically modified forms of
agriculture.
Medical innovations, including vaccines and
antibiotics, increased the ability of humans to
survive and live longer lives.
1. Choose one new mode of communication and explain how it reduced the
problem of geographic distance.
Handheld phones, able to communicate with people far away, faster.
2. Choose one new mode of transportation and explain how it reduced the
problem of geographic distance.
Airplanes, made travel must faster
3. Choose one new energy technology and explain how it raised productivity
and the production of material goods.
Oil and natural gas made energy cleaner, and more renewable that wood.
4. Explain the role of birth control in creating more opportunities for women in
the 20th century.
Women could now choose when they wanted to have children, which
allowed them to have jobs and make money for a longer period of their life.
5. What was the Green Revolution?
A movement to become more environmentally friendly.
6. Name two positive impacts of the Green Revolution.
It improved the economic lot of farmers, and their standard of living greatly
improved. It reduced the import of food grains.
7. Name two negative outcomes of the Green Revolution.
Increase in fertilizer usage, and machinery was expensive for poor farmers.
8. Describe one medical innovation that has increased the ability of humans to
survive and live longer lives.
Polio Vaccine
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