AP World History: Unit 9 – Globalization
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Globalization ✔✔Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making
something worldwide in scope; in terms of AP World History - globalized culture and trade
Green Revolution ✔✔Agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds,
fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations.
1918 Influenza Pandemic ✔✔changed from a epidemic and spread over an entire world killing
around 20 million in many areas around the world
Malaria ✔✔This disease is commonly associated with poverty and is spread by mosquitos. Each
year 1-3 million people mostly in sub-Saharan Africa die of this disease and hundreds of millions
are infected.
Alzheimer's disease ✔✔an irreversible, progressive brain disorder, characterized by the
deterioration of memory, language, and eventually, physical functioning; associated with
increased human longevity
climate change ✔✔a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent
from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of
atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.
knowledge economy ✔✔a society no longer based primarily on the production of material goods
but instead on the production of knowledge (examples: Finland, Japan, US)
Latest 2022 Already Passed
Globalization ✔✔Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making
something worldwide in scope; in terms of AP World History - globalized culture and trade
Green Revolution ✔✔Agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds,
fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising Asian populations.
1918 Influenza Pandemic ✔✔changed from a epidemic and spread over an entire world killing
around 20 million in many areas around the world
Malaria ✔✔This disease is commonly associated with poverty and is spread by mosquitos. Each
year 1-3 million people mostly in sub-Saharan Africa die of this disease and hundreds of millions
are infected.
Alzheimer's disease ✔✔an irreversible, progressive brain disorder, characterized by the
deterioration of memory, language, and eventually, physical functioning; associated with
increased human longevity
climate change ✔✔a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent
from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of
atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.
knowledge economy ✔✔a society no longer based primarily on the production of material goods
but instead on the production of knowledge (examples: Finland, Japan, US)
