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kgarland

World Simulation Ideas - 95 views

I think it would be great to add more natural disasters, along with trying to bring out the slave trade, I think we could make the slave trade more part of the game. Also I think it would be great ...

worldsim

started by Mike Wesch on 18 May 07 37 follow-ups, last by kgarland on 29 May 07
senoumou

Ideas from Games - 55 views

After today's games in class, what I suggest is that we can think about limiting the strenght of growing nations, and give a kind of long life to weak nations. By doing so, the competition might be...

gaming worldsim

started by Mike Wesch on 21 May 07 6 follow-ups, last by senoumou on 24 May 07
jcoop11

Science fact sheet- traditional Maori fisheries - 0 views

www.starfish.govt.nz/...fact-traditional-maori.htm

cultures pacific trade

shared by jcoop11 on 17 May 07 - Cached
  • Traditional Maori fishing operations were very well organised. Different tribes had their own fishing areas. Tribal boundaries were marked by landmarks and stakes and protected against trespassers. Fishing was often a community activity. Tasks involved everything from observing the movement of schools of fish and making gear, to catching and processing the fish. Early Maori knew a great deal about the life cycles of different fish. A fishing calendar was developed to work out when certain fish should be caught, what techniques to use, and whether it should be during the day or night. Kaimoana was a very important trading item. Coastal tribes traded it with inland iwi for goods such as birds, berries or workable stone. In Canterbury, Kaipoihai pa was a trading pa with eight different gates. It was similar to European trading sites in the middle ages.When Europeans arrived, Maori started trading with them. They bartered fish for other goods or sold it for cash. They exported fish to Australia in the early 19th century.
  • Maori are very knowledgeable and skilled fishers. Lines were made from flax fibre and sinkers from stones. Hooks were made from wood, bone, stone or shell. Sometimes a gorge was used instead of a hook. It was a straight piece of bone, sharp at each end and attached in the middle. When the line was pulled it turned sideways and caught in the fish's throat.
anonymous

Fair trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Fair_trade

poverty

shared by anonymous on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • wirth7 on 28 May 07
     
    shows how fair trade can help improve the lives of the impoverished. Very good info.
  • anonymous on 29 May 07
     
    Details about fair trade policies and their benefits.
Aaron Scott

Make Poverty History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Make_Poverty_History

poverty

shared by Aaron Scott on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • Aaron Scott on 29 May 07
     
    Another campaign that was maybe too much like Easterly's "Planner" as its members disbanded last year after increasing awareness and pressuring governments to relieve absolute poverty. The campaign was formed from members of trade unions, charities, religious groups, and many celebrities. In the US the campaign was known as the ONE campaign.
  • Aaron Scott on 29 May 07
     
    Another campaign that was maybe too much like Easterly's "Planner" as its members disbanded last year after increasing awareness and pressuring governments to relieve absolute poverty. The campaign was formed from members of trade unions, charities, religious groups, and many celebrities. In the US the campaign was known as the ONE campaign.
jcoop11

Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Indigenous_Australians

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  • not been shown to be related to any languages outside Australia. In the late 18th century, there were anywhere between 350 and 750 distinct groupings and a similar number of languages and dialects
  • At the time of first European contact, it is estimated that a minimum of 315,000 and as many as 1 million people lived in Australia. Recent archaeological evidence suggests that the land could have sustained a population of 750,000[11].
  • the regions of heaviest Indigenous population were the same temperate coastal regions that are currently the most heavily populated
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  • While Torres Strait Island populations were agriculturalists who supplemented their diet through the acquisition of wild foods the remainder of Indigenous Australians were hunter-gatherers. Indigenous Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Some Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders relied on the dingo as a companion animal, using it to assist with hunting and for warmth on cold nights.
  • Torres Strait Islanders
  • Indigenous Australians did practise agriculture.
  • sugar cane, taro and sweet potato as well as husbanding pigs
  • To enable men and women to find suitable partners, many groups would come together for annual gatherings (commonly known as corroborees) at which goods were traded, news exchanged, and marriages arranged amid appropriate ceremonies. This practice both reinforced clan relationships and prevented inbreeding in a society based on small semi-nomadic groups.
  • mainland Australia no animal other than the dingo
  • Indigenous diet included a wide variety of foods, such kangaroo, emu, wombats, goanna, snakes, birds, many insects such as honey ants and witchetty grubs. Many varieties of plant foods such as taro, nuts, fruits and berries were also eaten.
  • A primary tool used in hunting was the spear, launched by a woomera or spear-thrower in some locales. Boomerangs were also used by some mainland Indigenous peoples. The non-returnable boomerang (known more correctly as a Throwing Stick), more powerful than the returning kind, could be used to injure or even kill a kangaroo.
  • Permanent villages were the norm for most Torres Strait Island communities. In some areas mainland Indigenous Australians also lived in semi-permanent villages, most usually in less arid areas where fishing could provide for a more settled existence. Most Indigenous communities were semi-nomadic, moving in a regular cycle over a defined territory,
  • Many Indigenous communities also have a very complex kinship structure and in some places strict rules about marriage. In traditional societies, men are required to marry women of a specific moiety
  • In contrast Australian Aborigines did not cultivate any crops and lacked any domestic food animals
  • The Indigenous Australians lived through great climatic changes and adapted successfully to their changing physical environment
jcoop11

Wallerstein on World Systems - 0 views

www.fordham.edu/...wallerstein.html

required wallerstein worldsystems

shared by jcoop11 on 17 May 07 - Cached
  • makes possible analytically sound comparisons between different parts of the world.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is why Wallerstein's theory gained acceptance in the anthropological community. We are interested in making sound cross-cultural comparisons.
    • jcoop11
      jcoop11 on 20 May 07
       
      I may be reading to much into the wording, but do we really want to "compare" cultures. When we talk about comparing cultures, it seems as if we are holding them to a certain standard.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 21 May 07
       
      We are not comparing them to a standard - just trying to see the range of human possibilities - and how humans are interrelated.
  • feudalism
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      Three primary elements characterized feudalism: lords, vassals and fiefs; the structure of feudalism can be seen in how these three elements fit together. A lord was a noble who owned land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief. In exchange for the fief, the vassal would provide military service to the lord. The obligations and relations between lord, vassal and fief form the basis of feudalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal_system
  • switch from feudal obligations to money rents
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  • These impoverished peasants often moved to the cities, providing cheap labor essential for the growth in urban manufacturing
  • Eastern Europe (especially Poland) and Latin America, exhibited characteristics of peripheral regions.
  • In Latin America, the Spanish and Portuguese conquests destroyed indigenous authority structures and replaced them with weak bureaucracies under the control of these European states.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is the most common pattern found in the world simulation, though other forms emerge as well.
  • served as buffers between the core and the peripheries
  • According to Wallerstein, the semi-peripheries were exploited by the core but, as in the case of the American empires of Spain and Portugal, often were exploiters of peripheries themselves. Spain, for example, imported silver and gold from its American colonies, obtained largely through coercive labor practices, but most of this specie went to paying for manufactured goods from core countries such as England and France rather than encouraging the formation of a domestic manufacturing sector.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      nice summary here of the relationship of core, semi-periphery, and periphery
  • Similarly, Protestants, who were often the merchants in Catholic countries, found they were targets of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, a trans-national institution, found the development of capitalism and the strengthening of the state threatening.
  • During this period, workers in Europe experienced a dramatic fall in wages.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      This is interesting. We often think of this transition as benefitting the people of the Core - but it did not necessarily benefit everybody.
  • This powerful merchant class provided the capital necessary for the industrialization of European core states.
    • elligant35
      elligant35 on 20 May 07
       
      Is the merchant class the first indication of a middle class? If so, then why the fall in wages becasue it seems to me that all they created was a middle man to continously take the wages from the working class that supported the goods that were traded?
  • European states participated in active exploration for the exploitation of new markets.
  • With the independence of the Latin American countries, these areas as well as previously isolated zones in the interior of the American continent entered as peripheral zones in the world economy. Asia and Africa entered the system in the nineteenth century as peripheral zones.
    • Mike Wesch
      Mike Wesch on 20 May 07
       
      Expansion of the periphery - this typically represents Round 2 of the World Simulation.
  • the core enriched itself at the expense of the peripheral economies. This, of course, did not mean either that everybody in the periphery became poorer or that all citizens of the core regions became wealthier as a result.
  • Wallerstein asserts that an analysis of the history of the capitalist world system shows that it has brought about a skewed development in which economic and social disparities between sections of the world economy have increased rather than provided prosperity for all.
  • This was the first time that an economic system encompassed much of the world with links that superseded national or other political boundaries
  • Mike Wesch on 17 May 07
     
    Read all of this page & make notes so we can share ideas!
Amanda Stueve

TRADE-AFRICA: How to Turn The Curse of Oil Into a Blessing - 0 views

www.ipsnews.net/news.asp

africa economic healthcare oil

shared by Amanda Stueve on 25 May 07 - Cached
  • Amanda Stueve on 25 May 07
     
    Oil (and other minerals) are affecting the economic situation of African countries. Companies are getting rich, but the people are poor. Poverty is undoubtedly a cause fore the lack of healthcare access in Africa. Some solutions are offered in this article to put some of the money made from the oil back into the hands of the people that live there.
elligant35

Global Development: Solutions to Poverty - 0 views

home.wanadoo.nl/...Page18.htm

shared by elligant35 on 28 May 07 - Cached
    • elligant35
      elligant35 on 28 May 07
       
      Solution to poverty this article suggest using housing vouchers on government developed property. Among other solutions it proposes is to educate and provide better health care. The education they propose is to enable people to find some kind of trade to support themselves.
  • anonymous on 28 May 07
     
    Again, good analysis of the problems but no actionable plans.
elligant35

Poverty Facts and Stats - Global Issues - 0 views

www.globalissues.org/...Facts.asp

causes corporations poverty world

shared by elligant35 on 27 May 07 - Cached
    • elligant35
      elligant35 on 27 May 07
       
      This article will be a good source for finding out how mamy people are living in poverty. This article also lists some things that are wrong structurally within poverty. One of the most interesting statistics that this article claims that 27,000 children died today and this is a number that coincides with the 3 billion people that live on less than two dollars a day.
  • elligant35 on 27 May 07
     
    This article basically describes poverty as a result of third world debt, free trade, corporations, consumption and consumerism, and a complex list of other facts that places almost three billion people living on less than two dollars a day.  The article goes on to state how much money is being spent to try to help solve the poverty issue.
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