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Week
5: Globalization and
hyper-individualism
Essential question: How is the world both globalizing and becoming more
hyper-individualistic?
Required reading: All of the section introductions and
chapter summaries
Objective #3: To
gain an understanding for the development of key characteristics of
today’s world.
Content outline:
1. Globalization
a. Localism in the Middle Ages
b. Age of Exploration
i. Guns, Germs and Steel
ii. Colonization
c. From the farm to the city: Urbanization and the Industrial
Revolution
d. Imperialism
e. Decolonization and the third world
f. United Nations
g. Global Economics
2. Hyper Individualism
a. Medieval worldview
b. Renaissance
i. Humanism
ii. Individualism
c. Reformation
i. Priesthood of all believers
ii. Protestant Work Ethic
d. Capitalism
e. Computer Revolution
Key Terms:
- Age
of Exploration
- Colonization
- Urbanization
- Imperialism
- AIDS
- Decolonization
- Third
world
- United
Nations
- Globalization
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- Medieval
worldview
- Humanism
- Individualism
- Priesthood
of all believers
- Protestant
work ethic
- Computer
revolution
- Hyper-individualism
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