[HISTORY 250] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (18 pages long!)

• School: Northwestern University
• Department: History
• Course: HISTORY 250
• Professor: Daniel Immerwahr

Document Summary

Lecture 2 race and culture 09/23/2016. **ff = fossil fuels, bc = because, k2 = key to, ir = industrial revolution. Racism is wrong bc it is offensive (destructive ideology) and bc it is incorrect (not factually compelling); hypothesis states that each race is differently equipped for tasks including economic development. Categories are(cid:374)"t right greater genetic diversity of humans from africa, genetic diversity between non-africans so much smaller, genetic diversity is so small among humans anyways (johann blumenbach (cid:272)o(cid:373)pares skulls of differe(cid:374)t (cid:862)ra(cid:272)es(cid:863)(cid:895) Mechanism is suspect no gene for specific skills (economic development, dancing, motherhood) Time-scale is wrong energy capture per capita and break it out in geographical categories (cid:894)(cid:448)a(cid:272)illatio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) east a(cid:374)d (cid:449)est(cid:895); (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a (cid:448)a(cid:272)illatio(cid:374), (cid:449)ould just have one on top if some genes were genetically advantageous. Is kind of smug proposed by people who would benefit most from the hypothesis (europeans) Max weber (the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism) looks at the history of.