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DISEASE!!!!!!!
How does education impact income inequality?
Final Review Part 1
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How does education impact income inequality?
Education is inherently built for certain people so it just aggravates it
Free collegiate education would greatly decrease the gini coefficient
Education is useless, wisdom/knowledge are found in experience not school
On an individual level it can do much but on a systemic level not really
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DISEASE!!!!!!!
Trypanasome: tse-tse fly
Leprousy: fleas
Schistosomaisis: Mosquito borne
Malaria: Worms in water
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What is a high-equilibrium welfare system?
Income differs by job but progressive taxation equalizes disposble income
A flat tax is redistributed to those who are the least well off
Everyone is paid the same no matter what job they perform
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High equilibrium welfare systems are more common when...
The GDP of the countries are extremely high
Ethnically heterogeneous groups that mix cultures, histories, and languages
groups are ethnically homogenous, sharing a culture, language, and history
Governments have been destroyed and then reformed
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How did the Mamluks maintain control?
Controlled regional capital
Appeased the poor with benefits that were temporary
Killed EVERYONE, muahahaha
found solidarity in a shared ethnicity
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Which of the 4 horsemen can we expect to level inequality in the future according to Scheidel?
Mass Mobilization
Plagues
All will be obsolete (Suck that horsemen)
Transformative Revolution
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The data from the Italian Piemont was related to wages, slave possessions, property and tax returns.
True
False
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Which answer consists of a microparasite and macroparasite
Measles: Civilization
Malaria: Humans
Bunnies: Bears
Rabies: Covid-19
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What caused adaptations as men spread out of Africa?
new animals, new parasites
new resources, new animals
new parasites, new resources, new animals
new parasites
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Why will transformative revolution become obsolete?
Christ will reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Globally connected economies
Only successful examples were communist/socialist, which have since faded
Global government
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Uruk is one of the main cities of the Illiad (Trojan War)
True
False
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Which georgraphic regions were able to maintain control of market wages in spite of the Black Death?
Eastern Europe
Mongol China
Aztec Empire
Mamluk Egypt
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Match the PS Author with the correct state
Pericles: Hittites
Pulisa: Mycenea
Mursili II: Egypt
Hammurabi: Babylon
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Damascus
A Gate in Jerusalem
Has some really awesome folded steel
Location of Ibn Battuta's primary source
Oldest capital in the world
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What would you ask in Guess Who to find out the historical period of your opponent was the Medieval Climate Optimum?
Was it a historical period?
Was it defined by technological innovation, improved farming methods/crops?
Was it before the Black Death?
Did it cause a population boom?
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Societal systems that come about in the Neolithic Revolution
Chiefdoms, Cities
Pastoralism, Chiefdoms
Cities, pastoralism
hunter-gatherers, agricultural villages
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How did Eastern European Elite maintain control?
Escaped to their rural manors and left the peasants to fend for themselves
you don't need to fix something that ain't broke, peasants love their lives
Tightened the legal system
Created more elites
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Why was there leveling in Western Europe during the Black Death?
Shortage of manpower for land available
Cathlic Church failed to meet the emotional needs of the populace
States failed to suppress pressures on the market wages
Resurgence of the plague (I'm back!! -> death, death, death)
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Which Author is correctly linked to their primary source
John Catacuzenos IV - trenches of dead piled like cargo ships
Boccaccio- medical journal-like, symptoms, possible causes of death
Di Tura - Living hell, not sure if the world would continue, buried kids
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What piece of legislature was passed to control market wages and employment
The Labor Ordinance
The Ordinance of Laborers
The 1426 Wage Laws
The Ordinance of Value
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The plague has only come to play a couple of times namely the Black Death, Justinian Plague, and 20th Century outbreak.
False
True
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Which of the following groups did not have a significant rise in labor wages due to the Plague?
Rural Unskilled Workers
Urban Skilled Workers
Nobility
Urban Unskilled Workers
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Where are most high equilibrium welfare system states?
Southern Europe (Italy, France, Malta)
Latin America (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala)
Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Poland)
Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Finland)
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Sumptuary laws...
were related to clothes, specifically high class products such as furs
defined what wealthy people can't wear to distinguish them from the poor
reinforced social structure and separation of classes
were stricly reinforced
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The Third Demographic Transition refers to what?
An increase in foreign ethnic groups in a country
A decrease in birth rates
incorporating high equilibrium welfare systems in more countries
a general decrease in males born
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Schistosomaisis was more common where?
Yellow River, Indus River
Yellow River, Nile
Euphrates, Amazon
Nile, Indus River
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Rice agriculture in China
Easy: solely needed to be domesticated and seeds transported to other areas
Difficult: Yellow river changed course, Yantze disease gradient
Difficult: Yellow River disease gradient, Yanzte river chagned course
Easy: quickly follows millet cultivation, facilitated by calm waters
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Why will plagues become obsolete?
The millenium will cause everyone to die at the "age of a tree"
Humans will become genetically modified so that plagues can be eradicated
Humans will become so used to disease that its effect will shrink with time
Medicine will lessen the death toll, neutralizing the leveling effect
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What does Scheidel suppose will happen with automation and computerizatiton?
Income inequality will increase by certain countries becoming wealthier
Income inequality will decrease because access to higher tech will increase
Income inequality will increase because people will lose their jobs
Income inequality will decrease due to people finding better paying jobs.
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Why will state failure/state or system collapse become obsolete?
fiscal expansion
State entrenchment in society
Millenium followed by celestial glory!
Modern economic growth
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Residential segregation relates to..
Increase in educational funding in wealthier areas
local tax disparaties due to income in neighborhoods/communities
apathy or othering of those not in your immediate vicinity (us/them)
Zoning or redlining
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Why will Mass mobilization become obsolete?
Focus on tech over manpower
NUKES!!!!!!!!!
A global government will eventually take control
The millenium will take effect and there will be peace on earth (Huzzah!)
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What does McNeill focus on related to The Plague that Scheidel deems not important enough to bring up for his argument?
Changes in other diseases
The Mongol Empire
Economic impact
Symptoms
