9.9 Continuity and Change in a Globalized World

The final topic in this unit focuses on the skill of argumentation and so provides an opportunity for your students to draw upon the key concepts and historical developments they have studied in this unit. Using evidence relevant to this unit’s key concepts, students should practice the suggested skill for this topic.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Unit 9: Learning Objective I
Explain the extent to which science and technology brought change in the period from 1900 to the present.

REVIEW: UNIT 9 KEY CONCEPTS

KC-6.1
Rapid advances in science and technology altered the understanding of the universe and the natural world and led to advances in communication, transportation, industry, agriculture, and medicine.

KC-6.1.I.A
New modes of communication—including radio communication, cellular communication, and the internet—as well as transportation, including air travel and shipping containers, reduced the problem of geographic distance.

KC-6.1.I.D
Energy technologies, including the use of petroleum and nuclear power, raised productivity and increased the production of material goods.

KC-6.1.III.B
More effective forms of birth control gave women greater control over fertility, transformed reproductive practices, and contributed to declining rates of fertility in much of the world.

KC-6.1.I.B
The Green Revolution and commercial agriculture increased productivity and sustained the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically modified forms of agriculture.

KC-6.1.I.C
Medical innovations, including vaccines and antibiotics, increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer lives.

KC-6.3.I
States responded in a variety of ways to the economic challenges of the 20th century.

KC-6.3.III.i
Rights-based discourses challenged old assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion.

KC-6.3.III.ii
In much of the world, access to education as well as participation in new political and professional roles became more inclusive in terms of race, class, gender, and religion.

KC-6.3.IV.i
Political and social changes of the 20th century led to changes in the arts and in the second half of the century, popular and consumer culture became more global.

KC-6.3.IV.ii
Arts, entertainment, and popular culture increasingly reflected the influence of a globalized society.

KC-6.3.IV.iii
Consumer culture became globalized and transcended national borders.