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Global Economic Issues Assignment 4
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1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD) It is actually very interesting how the greatest civilizations went from having the grandest kingdoms to completely disappeared. It got my attention how well the Chapman’s book and the Eric Cline lecture are related. While Eric Cline discusses how Empires in the admirable age of Bronze came to an end, Chapman book explains how the biggest human die-offs occurred. I also found it very interesting that perhaps the internationalism of a globalized world system in the Age of Bronze contributed to the apocalyptic disaster that ended this remarkable period. It is hard to believe how Empires like Egyptians, Babylonians that conquered a great extension of territory, suddenly they were gone. Sure, natural disasters, drought, and famines could contribute to mass die-offs. However, as Eric Cline says, it should have been multiple natural disasters or the called ¨perfect storm¨ that led to the first Dark Ages, but is that such developed societies like they were in the past that did not have any other option than extinction? Black Death: History of the Black Death How is it possible that such a small thing as a bacteria could kill off an estimated 200 million people worldwide? This is what happened in the 14th^ Century by the called Black Death, Pestilence, the Great Mortality, or the Plague or in Spanish la Peste Negra. I found most interesting in the Black Death documentary the deep and very detailed explanation of a devastating global epidemic that terrified everybody in the mid-1300s. The world stopped with the Coronavirus pandemic, but the Black Death was by far more lethal, had a bigger impact, and killed many more people. So, comparing the impact that Covid-19 is having nowadays, I cannot imagine what could happen if an epidemic of such devastation happened today. The world would not only be able to respond, although we enjoy a better health care system, but could not be able to sustain and act against it. We have clearly seen how Covid- 19 put everybody under a state of emergency and saw the most industrialized and advanced age of all time got stopped by the coronavirus.