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Name: Trevyn Suskowicz_______________________________ Date:_____________________ 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. People loved in the fertile ...

      Total  fertility rate  (TFR) r efers to total number of children born or likely to be born to a woman in her life time. Woman in France are decreasing the number of children because they are educated more and getting more jobs. Also they are getting  benefits like daycare. When they are getting jobs they are less likely to have more kids because they can work on other things other than raising kids.       In Saudi Arabia the death rates are dropping so the birth rates are decreasing. The death rates are decreasing because the country is getting wealthier so the health treatment is getting better therefore there is no need to be scared that on of the kids you have will die early.       Since China has restricted or been restricting the amount of kids a family it has become more of a casualty of having less kids. They have been used to having less ...

1) One aspect is that 20% of Japan's population is over 65 years old. Also some people are not marrying at all or later in age. 2) 33% of Japan's population will be 65 years or older 3) The direct impact is people are working older ages so there is less labor but they want female labor participation to rise to balance it out. 4) They are wanting females to work more, they are also putting a new visa system/ changing it, and the are hoping to raise the age of retirement.

1) That is the constant tendency of all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment provided for it. 2)  According to Malthus, the most positive check on human population growth that has existed in history is disease. 3) If we go off of arithmetic growth we would not be able to calculate how many people will be on the earth because there will be so many. When you go off of geometric growth you will be able to see how it stops. 4) A  preventive check like poverty or disease will keep the population down so that we will have set backs and then can expand more. We will be able to increase more and it kind of stabilizes the growth of the worlds population. 5) He was right and wrong in the point that he was onto something. But he was wrong because not one thing in the world canhave such explanatory power.

1) The one child police: the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. 2) The program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the central government of China, On September 25, 1980, called all to adhere to the one-child policy. 3) The policy was enforced through a public letter and there were exceptions because in some instances the first born was handicapped. 4) One problem it caused was that people wanted males to carry on the name so they would get abortions if it was a girl. And more girls went to orphanages. There was also a growing proportion in the population of elderlies and there were less people to take care of them. Another consequence was when the families would hide children it would be hard to get them education because they are undocumented.

1) Somalia 2) Ethiopia 3) Kenya 4) Madagascar 5) Tanzania 6) Mozambique 7) Eswatini 8) Lesotho 9) South Africa 10) Egypt 11) Sudan 12) South Sudan 13) Uganda 14) Rwanda 15) Burundi 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 Guinea 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) The Gambia 42) Guinea-Bissau 43) Sierra Leone 44) Liberia 45) Djibouti 46) Eritrea 47) Tunisia 48) Malawi 49) Guinea 50) Comoros 51) São Tomé 52)  Cote d'Ivoire

Population grew exponentially and it grew fast, half the worlds population grew in one lifetime. In denser areas they are having less kids than big families Bangladesh, first year of independence 7 babies per year with 50 year life span. Bangladesh is now 2.5 babies 1963: 5 babies per woman 2012: 2.5 babies per woman  Family planning, vaccines, and cleanliness helped keep the babies per woman down in Bangladesh even in the slums. Not as many deaths when you have children now because of the advancements. Peak child at 2 children Extreme Poverty, can buy shoes, then bicycle, then motorbike, then car, then fly by plane When you make $100 all people with lower amount of money seem poor. Some people doctor the scales in Africa  80% are literate  as income rises then lifespan rises  the ones that are rising are china and India in 1963 Asia was basically in extreme poverty Then after time then its little population that is even in extreme poverty but still 1 ...