Western Civilization

Kyle Namvary the theory of population 1.) By the law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, escape from the weight of this law which pervades all animated nature. 2.) Malthus argued that man is incapable of ignoring the consequences of uncontrolled population growth, and would intentionally avoid contributing to it. According to Malthus, a positive check is any event or circumstance that shortens the human life span. The primary examples of this are war, plague and famine. 3.) Population and Food Supply  Thomas Malthus theorized that populations grew in geometric progression. Additionally, he stated that food production increases in arithmetic progression. An arithmetic progression is a sequence of numbers such that the difference between the consecutive terms is constant. 4.) Malthus argued that...

Viewing Guide:  Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1 Directions: Before viewing the film, read each question below so you know what information and ideas you should be looking for as you watch Episode 1. Record your answers to each question by providing as many facts, details, and examples as possible to answer each question. 1. According to Jared Diamond, what are the three major elements that separate the world’s  “haves” from the “have nots”? Guns, Germs and Steel. 2. Jared Diamond refers to the people of New Guinea as “among the world’s most culturally diverse and adaptable people in the world”, yet they have much less than modern Americans.Diamond has developed a theory about what has caused these huge discrepancies among different countries, and he says it boils down to geographic luck. Give several examples from the film to support Diamond’s theory.  3. For thousands of years, people have been cultivating crops. Describe the process used to domestic...

1.) Th e purpose was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each each family. 2.) Made in the late 1970's and early ’80s by the central government of China 3.) Parents within some ethnic minority groups or those whose firstborn was handicapped were allowed to have more than one child. 4.) The first problem was if people had a girl they would often get abortions and try and have a boy instead. The second problem was there was a lot of old people and not many young people to take care of them. The third problem was that if people had more than one child they often wouldn't report it to authorities to avoid consequences so the population may have been slightly inaccurate.

Describe the economic and cultural forces that shape the choice to have children—or not- in each of the countries listed in the article. Use the first hand accounts from the women in each of the countries to build your answer. You will also want to include background information about fertility rates and how we use them as human geographers: Lots of countries struggle with over population for their lack  in technology . Fertility rates in poor countries that are not developed can lead to lack of  resources, food and job opportunities. However, there has been a huge crash in these underdeveloped countries. In Yemen, 1990, the fertility rate was about 8. In 2017, that number dropped down to 4. So you may be wondering what caused such a decrease, so here's whats going on. Yemens population in 1990 was 12 million, which meant that in the next decade, they were going to be awfully overpopulated. So, their fertility rate had a massive drop, being split in half, which now they ha...

External Poverty: shoes then Bicycle then motorcycle then car then vacations The opportunities in developing countries should grow exponentially The reason for most of the worlds pollution has to deal with the rich and there manufacturing of there companies, but yet blamed on the poor. 80% of adults are literate Within the next thirty years, almost everyone should be out of unbearable poverty

                1 Somalia  2 Ethiopia  3 Kenya  4 Madagascar  5 Tanzania  6 Mozambique 7 Swaziland 8 Lesotho 9 South Africa 10 Egypt  11 Sudan 12 South Sudan 13 Uganda 14 Rwanda  15 Burudi  16 Zambia 17 Zimbabwe  18 Libya  19 Chad 20 Central African Republic  21 Democratic Republic of the Congo 22 Angola  23 Namibia  24 Botswana  25 Niger 26 Nigeria 27 Cameroon  28 Equatorial Genia  29 Gabon 30 Republic of the Congo  31 Algeria  32 Mali 33 Burkina Faso 34 Ghana  35 Togo 36 Benin 37 Morocco  38 Western Sahara  39 Mauritania  40 Senegal 41 Gambia  42 Bissau 43 Sierra Leone  44 Libera 45 Djibouti 46 Eritrea  47 Tunisia  48 Harare  49 Guinea 50 Comoros  51 Sao Tome 52 Cote d'ivoire 

Topic: Introduction to population KQ1: Where is the world's population distributed?  LO1: Define population, Demography and Key Demographic indicators. Population:   refers to the size and distribution of the Earth’s human population. In Human Geography,  Demography: A  social science which entails the statistical study of human populations. There are a few ways that we can track Population Growth and Change. LO2: Identify and track some population statistics between nations. Town of bel air guess: 30k   Town of bel air population: 10,037   Harford county guess: 200k    Harford county population:252,160   Baltimore guess: 287k people   Baltimore population: 614,664   Maryland guess: 3 million   Maryland  population : 6.043 million    United States estimate: 9 billion   United Sates population: 327.2 million   Which state in the ...