[COMMERCE 2KA3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (40 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMMERCE 2KA3
• Professor: A L I Reza Montazemi

Document Summary

List the ve greatest inventions of all time? (based on their impact on the world, human progress, and improvement to the human condition) Electricity: automobiles, telephone, what was the most important invention of all time, changed the way we share ideas, changed political systems, changed economic systems. List the ve worst inventions of all time? (based on their impact on the world, human progress, and improvement to the human condition: war machines, densi cation of cities, gmo. Is not something that is that old: change to sewer systems, move our waste away from where we live. Food storage: agricultural environment where we can grow our own food, there is a direct positive relation between food storage and improved sanitation. Live longer, reproduce more (along with advances in medicine) results in population growth: what changed in the 1800"s, colberkdale, england. 1800 200 tonnes of coal every 10 minutes. 1900 200 tonnes of coal every 26 seconds.