Summer of Pandemic - History Blogs

 In what way(s) do you see the historical developments described in this chapter continuing to evolve in our world today? Make a separate blog post for each chapter.  Globalization has heightened since 1945 in today's world. After World War II, the United States worked hard to not fall into an economy much like the Depression-era. The world's economy continues to transform and repeat behaviors in history, only to get the same results it seems. Factors such as feminism, capitalism, environmentalism, fundamentalism, global modernity display the impacts of capitalism and culture in our world. Working backward until now - In 1945, the UN, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund was established. In the 1960's there was a rise in feminism, and the Six-day Arab-Israeli war happened. In the 1970's Greenpeace was established, and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations and created the Iranian revolutio...

1) What was The Great Dying? Cite examples and details from the historical record in your response. Could this be considered a genocide? Why/ why not?      The Great Dying was when the Europeans came in to take of the ingenious people in America. 56 million people died by 1600. When Christopher Columbus and his fellow Europeans came into the America’s, they killed nearly 90% of the Native American population. As the natives died, so did their crops. The environment began to change because of the changing in the soil. Soon, the Little Ice Age, small pox, measles and other diseases took over by killing millions of people as an environmental response. The Europeans intent to kill and wipe out a colony is definitely genocide and the diseases that followed created a pandemic, making this double deadly.  2)  What did native Siberians and native Americans have in common in terms of their experiences with Europeans during the early Modern period?   ...

My grandmother lived through malaria in Indonesia in the 1940’s. She was a young child who survived malaria herself. She often told me of the sad stories of people dying left and right from either malaria or starvation. Bodies lay piled in the masses in the middle of a dugout street, and way too many small children left to die. I recall her many memories and stories on this pandemic. Malaria hit in Southeast Asia in 1942 when the US Army and the Japanese were at war. Malaria is an infectious disease caused by parasites that attack the human body and is carried through mosquitos and said to come from as far back as the ice age. Antimalarial combats this disease, and at this time was scarce.   Many American soldiers fighting in the war contracted the disease. Once a person has malaria, they are either very ill for several weeks and got better with rest and healing or the disease went rampant and the person died. Signs of malaria are fever, chills, and weakness. This is much like th...

The 4 th of July or Independence Day is an American celebration of the independence granted to the 13 Continental Congress during the American Revolution. After the independence of the delegates, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence. The 18 th Century, American holiday began in 1941. It is widely celebrated in today’s world, often with barbecues and fireworks to display our patriotism. My family and I often celebrate by having our own fireworks display at home with family. We barbeque our favorite dishes, swim, play corn-hole, horseshoes and potato sack races. There is always watermelon, fire sparklers and barbeque for as young as I can remember.

Science in the 19th century challenged the faith of the enlightenment. Charles Darwin argued that life was a constant change and a struggle for survival. He believed evolution occurred through natural selection which created conflict with Christians. Karl Marx also highlighted pain and struggle in life and human civilization and in turn the start of socialism. Sigmund Freud concentrated on human emotions and thought that our conscience influences human sexuality and behavior such as aggression. In the 20th century, physics created a new view of science. Findings such as light bending, matter, and energy are equivalent and space can warp light. All of these scientists formulated the birth of our modern science today.

The world economy goes back further than our modern world today. Economic globalization is similar both now and roughly the early 1700's. World trades of spices, gold, silver, textiles, coffee, chocolate, and sugar are some of the things that were traded globally. By the 18th century, the trades touched so many places as items from global commerce made their ways to countries far and wide. Things such as Indian rugs, china eating dishes, and Mexican chocolate were in places far from their origin. This created a highly competitive market. In today's world, modern economic globalization picked up in the year 2000 when goods shipped out quickly and vastly across the world. Today, China continues to be a key player in the world of economy and global commerce.

The Great Dying is a reminder in today's world, that the history of the Americas repeats itself and pandemics have cycled around since before our time of COVID-19. The theory is the absence of pets or domesticated animals weakened the immunities of people to become ill with smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, the flu, and typhus. The Native American people died at alarming rates when they were exposed to the African/European diseases. Similarly, as in today's world, the ice age came about due to climate change of cool temperatures. Pandemic followed by a global climate crisis stemmed from the Great Dying and the Ice Age from 1450-1750. Who would have known nearly 600 years ago we would face the same type of issues of the spread of COVID wiping out mass amounts of the population, followed by global warming, which eventually leads to global cooling.