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- coordinated terrorist attack
- 2 places crashed into the World Trade Center towers
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| Osama Bin Landen, Al-Qaeda, & The Mujahedeen |
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- Osama Bin Laden: mastermind behind 9-11 attack
- al-Qaeda: The core of a global terrorist network
- mujaedeen: Islamic warriors who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan
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| US Wars in Afghanistan & Iraq |
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- Omar fought "holy wars" against other ethnic & Mulism groups in Afghanistan
- Osama Bin Laden wouldn't surrender to US
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- vast population increase in result in advances in agriculture, industry, science, medicine & social organization
- 500 mill people in 1650 to 2.5 bill in 1950
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| The Planet's Carrying Capacity |
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- large population changes the earth & its environment
- human societies can't expand past the earth's limits
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- the emission of greenhouse gases
- which prevents solar heat from escaping the earth's atmosphere
- leads to the gradual heating of the earth's environment
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- the issue of population control was highly politicized
- changed representatives of industrialized countries with racism
- reducing bithrates became central concern
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- aquired immunodeficiency sydrome causing failure in the immune system & is caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that attacks & destroys the immune system
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- 37.8 million people have AIDS worldwide, 25 mill are in sub-Saharan Africa so children with AIDS/HIV worldwide live in Africa
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| Urbanization & Interal Migration |
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- largest human migrations are rural-urban flows
- led to rapid urbanization
- urbanization is difficult for rural areas
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- voluntary & forced international migrations has transformed the human landscape
- 37 mill migrants made the US their new home
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- international mass migrations have accelerated cross cultural internation
- migrants established cultural & ethnic communities that maintained their social customs & native languages
- migrants pose challenges to themselves & the host country
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- safer & faster transport & instituionalizing leisure & travel
- in mid 1800's it became common to go on vacation
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