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Unit 9: Globalization (c. 1900 to the present): a connected, contested, and changing world

9 dot points across 9 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How did advances in technology shrink the world and accelerate globalization?

How did movements after 1900 demand rights, equality, and reform on a global scale?

How did disease, medicine, and population change shape the globalized world?

How did the global economy integrate, and what models and institutions shaped it?

How has human activity reshaped the global environment, and how has the world responded?

How did culture become global, and how did local cultures respond?

How did international institutions try to govern a connected and contested world?

Why and how have people resisted globalization?

What are the costs and limits of the technological advances that drive globalization?