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Course: Big History Project > Unit 9
Lesson 2: Acceleration | 9.1- ACTIVITY: The Appetite for Energy
- ACTIVITY: Unit 9 Vocab Tracking
- ACTIVITY: DQ Notebook 9.1
- WATCH: Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution
- READ: The Industrial Revolution
- WATCH: How Did Change Accelerate?
- READ: Acceleration
- READ: George Washington Carver - Graphic Biography
- ACTIVITY: Threshold Card — Threshold 8: The Modern Revolution
- Quiz: Acceleration
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ACTIVITY: Threshold Card — Threshold 8: The Modern Revolution
Each threshold follows a consistent pattern of creating greater complexity in the Universe. Download a PDF of Threshold 8: The Modern Revolution.
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- If China had not pulled out of the Indian Ocean trading system by stopping Zheng He's expeditions what would today look like?(12 votes)
- Technology probably would have spread faster, there would be more trade, and maybe people along the Indian Ocean might have spoken Chinese!(7 votes)
- Why could this revolution not occurred during the Silk Road trade or the Indian Ocean trade system?(4 votes)
- This is an interesting question. In way, trade via both the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean contributed to this revolution and were major ingredients leading up to the Modern Revolution.(10 votes)
- How did we become so dominate of the world around us, why do we need fossil fuel if back then I mean 10000000 of years we lived perfectly fine why cant we still live like that?(4 votes)
- under ¨new complexity a globally connected human society has enables us to do what?(4 votes)
- I'm sure everybody asks this question sometime in their life but, when will the natural resources run out?(1 vote)
- That depends on the type of natural resource that you're asking about. For example, sand is a natural resource. There's no danger of that running out. Water is also a natural resource. Though it may be polluted, it is still water, and it's not likely to run out.
So, you need to first come up with a list of natural resources before you can ask when, if at all, any of them will "run out". You'll also have to decide, in the case of each resource on your list, what it might mean to "run out".(2 votes)
- ching chong bing bong bing bong yellow guy eating dog ramen?(1 vote)