World History II Blog

A pandemic is widespread over a whole country or the world. A pandemic affects a very high proportion of a population. A pandemic is like a global epidemic that can spread over one continent. Many of the infectious diseases are not equal. There are other different terms for whether a disease can be considered a pandemic or not depending on how frequent the disease is over time. The different terms are an epidemic, a pandemic, an endemic, and an outbreak. An epidemic is a disease that can affect a big number of people within a community, population, or region. A pandemic is an epidemic that is spread over many countries or continents. An endemic is something that belongs to particular people or to a particular country. And an outbreak is a greater-than-anticipated increase in the number of endemic cases. It can be a single case in a new area. If the case is not fastly controlled, an outbreak can later become an epidemic. Besides the coronavirus as one pandemic that is affecting huma...

HIV/AIDS Pandemic Besides the coronavirus as one pandemic that is affecting humanity during these recent times, the HIV/AIDS pandemic is another pandemic that has plagued humanity at its peak during 2005-2012. It was first identified in Congo in 1976 and has then proven itself as a global pandemic since 1981. HIV/AIDS has killed more than 36 million people. In the more recent times, there have been between 31-35 million people that are currently living with HIV, many of them living in Sub-Saharan Africa where 5% of the population is infected with the disease. Many people became more vulnerable to the HIV infection because of the key areas in which people were living in, areas in which people were living around the key affected populations. Anyone who was practicing unsafe sex with an infected person was at risk of the disease. As awareness grew with the pandemic, there were new treatments that were being developed to help HIV more manageable, and those with the disease can live a...

1.) How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the 19 th century? China was forced to continue to import opium.  China had to cede Hong Kong to Britain and open a number of other ports to European merchants.  It had to set import tariffs into China at a low rate of 5 percent.  Foreigners were given the right to live in China under their own laws.  Foreigners received the right to buy land in China.  China was opened to Christian missionaries.  Western powers were permitted to patrol some of the interior waterways of China.  China lost control of Vietnam, Korea, and Taiwan.  By the end of the nineteenth century, the Western nations plus Japan and Russia all had carved out spheres of influence within China, granting them special privileges to establish military bases, extract raw materials, and build railroads. 2.) What strategies did China adopt to confront its various problems? In what ways did these strategies reflect Chin...

1.) In what ways did the Industrial Revolution shape the character of 19 th century European imperialism? T he Industrial Revolution produced technological innovations such as the steamship, the breech-loading rifle, and the telegraph that facilitated imperialism.  The productivity of industrial technology and Europe's growing wealth created the need for extensive raw materials and agricultural products found in other parts of the world.  Europe needed to sell its own products.  European capital sought investments abroad both for the profits that they promised and to stimulate demand for European products, in part to keep the laboring classes fully employed and less inclined to class conflict. 2.) What contributed to changing European views of Asians and Africans in the 19 th century? The accomplishments of the Industrial Revolution, including the unlocking of the secrets of nature and the creation of a society that enjoyed wealth, led Europeans to develop arr...

1) In what ways did the Industrial Revolution mark a sharp break with the past? In what ways did it continue earlier patterns? The Industrial Revolution created new jobs and respect for women. There was a larger middle class, industry, new socialist ideas, and hierarchies. There was a belief that things could be improved. Also, the Industrial Revolution continued population growth, patriarchy, and social inequality. 2) In what respects did the roots of the Industrial Revolution lie within Europe? In what ways did that transformation have global roots? The roots of the Industrial Revolution lay within Europe because Europe's political system favored innovation. Europe became the hub of the largest network of exchange in the world, which generated change and innovation and stimulated European commerce. The conquest of the Americas allowed Europeans to draw on world resources and provided a growing market for European machine-produced goods. 3) What was distinctive about Brita...