01:506:101 Lecture 14: Ch14
13 Mar 2018
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European civilization, 1871-1914: the civilized world pp. Europeans pointed to the falling death rate and to declining infant mortality, rising life expectancy, improving literacy, and higher labor productivity: the zones of civilization: Inner zone, the europe of steam : from glasgow and stockholm in the north, danzig and trieste in the east, and florence and barcelona in the south--an area of heavy industry, railroads, scientific achievement, capital, and liberalism. The outer zone : ireland, most of the iberian peninsula, southern italy, and most of eastern. Europe, was agricultural, with high poverty and illiteracy: basic demography: the increase of the europeans, european and world population growth, 1650-1980. Relation of europe"s population to that of the world as a whole: examine the chart, which shows that europe pp. 587-595 reached a peak of population about 1900 (30%) and since has fallen to its historical average of 20% of world"s pop. Factors: subsiding of bubonic plague and retreat of smallpox.
