Sociology 2151A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Upper Middle Class, Smallpox, Teotihuacan
10 Apr 2014
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1st world country donate technology and medicine to third world countries. Standard of life deteriorating: at some point around 1800, after untold millennia of human history, global population reached its first billion. The world"s population now grows by 1 billion about every 12 years. Least developed countries have the fastest population growth: we lowered their mortality rate but fertility rates are still high (population explosion) In 1950 there was only 1 super city (ny), 1975 there were 5 (all developed), 2001 17 cities (6 developed), 2015 21 cities (6 developed) Population of latin america was 20-25 million: indigenous population was massacred, carried with them measles and small pox. Indigenous people did not have the resistance to these diseases. 1 way shipment from latin america to spain and portugal. Lower class (black: slavery lasted longer in latin american than it did in northern america.
