Demographic Shifts

Consider the Following: Disease, immigration – push/pull factors, attractive regions, infant mortality rates, life expectancy, diet, colonization, scientific advancements, war, forced
servitude, urbanization
 8000 – 600 CE 600 – 1450 CE
East Asia 1. Shang dynasty = 1. Trade spread disease,
Hwang He – infanticide. black plague.
2. Zhou Dynasty = feudal 2. Mongols facilitated
system. trade.
3. Qin: iron weapons 3. Vietnam = Champa
4. Han = paper, sundials, Rice.
ox-plow. 4. Japan = isolated, 4
5. Han Collapse: internal main islands.
5. Mongol tech: siege
weapons = catapults,
exploding balls.
6. Ming = extensive
agriculture.
7. Tang/Song: junks,
gunpowder, flying $,
magnetic compass,
sternpost rudders.
Western Europe 1. Mediterranean 1. Growth of cities = pop
2. Greece = city-states, increases.
have slaves, Persian War, 2. Specialization of labor.
Peloponnesian War. 3. Dark Ages.
3. Roman Republic: 4. Feudalism – serfs =
geography: protected similar to slaves.
from northern invasion by 5. Few tech advances.
land (Alps), conflict: 6. Vikings = raided
Punic Wars – defeat in 3rd Europe.
one open Medit to Rome.
Eastern Europe 4. Roman Empire: 1. Byzantine
initially empire expands, 2. Coined $.
large landowners use 3. Between medit and
slaves, cities Black Seas.
overcrowded = displaced 4. Rise of towns,
1450-1750 CE 1750 – 1914 CE 1914 - Present
1. Asia to Euro = yellow 1. China = sweet potato. 1. Korea = highest
fever, malaria, small pox. 2. Japan = improve in population density.
2. Malaysia + Indo + Sing nutrition, medical care, 2. Jap = address pop
= colonized. strain in natural increase through birth
3. Ming = brief resources, industrialize, control & abortion.
exploration, but pull back fewer people working in 3. Asia industrializes &
= isolated. agriculture, national mechanizes.
4. Qing/Manchu Dynasty infrastructure. 4. Nagasaki & Hiroshima
5. Tokugawa Japan = 3. China = opium trade. = bombed.
united Japan, pop growth, 5. Firebombings of
rain grain production Japanese cities.
increase, urbanized, 6. Comfort women in
quality weapons. Korea & SEA.
6. Pop growth in China 7. Mao = kill many
people.
8. Great Leap Forward =
collectivization.
1. Syphilis 1. Industrialization. 1. Spanish Flu = Global
2. Growth of urban pop. 2. Famine = Ireland. epidemic.
3. China + Japan 3. Push = poverty. 2. Guest workers = labor
colonized. 4. Urbanization. shortages, seek workers
4. Exploration, 5. Live expectancy rose – from outside = low wages
colonization, imperialism. improve medicine, Louis & discrimination.
5. Port: colonize Goa, Pastuer Germ theory. 3. WWII = total war,
Malacca, Sri Lanka. 6. Diet improve. civilians as targets.
6. Spain = Columbus. 7. Cholera + TB. 4. Blitzkrieg.
7. English fight wars with 8. Tenements = bad living 5. Poverty, shortage of
Spain for territory. conditions. food, clothing.
8. France = colonized 9. Major pollution. 6. Holocaust.
India. 10. Increase in pop = 7. Welfare systems, econ
9. Dutch = Indonesia, more food. prosperity, scientific
Africa Cape Colony. 11. Enclosure movement +tech = advance.
10. Extract natural = common area gone. 8. Emphasize
resources. 12. New sources of consumerism.
11. Colonize Americas. energy = steam,
12. Spanish + Port = petroleum.
bring in African Slaves to 13. New materials = steel.
Americas. 14. Interchangeable parts.
13. Renaissance, 15. Steam locomotive.
Protestant Reformation, 16. Birth of middle class.
Scientific Rev,
enlightenment.
1.Trade with nomads of 1. Emancipation of serfs 1. Refugees = displaced
Central Asia. = but still have to work during WWII.
2. Cossacks: recruited on land to pay off, so not 2. Pull: Economy +
peasants. really free. politics = repressive.
3. Russia = isolated from 2. Not industrializing. 3. WWI = destruction of