Rise of Society

[Marc Imrie]

1. With your parents or another adult, watch the attached BBC video by Hans Rosling, "200 Countries, 200 Years".

2. Share your experience with "3rd World Farmer" and how you achieved the successes that you did. *Use your "3rd World Farmer" notes.

3. After watching and discussing the video and your "3rd World Farmer" experience, discuss the following question together: 

Name and describe four factors (reasons) that would help lead to the rise (success, advancement, progress...) of a society (country, empire, civilizations, etc.).

* The answers are not necessarily found in the video. You will need to brainstorm and discuss ideas with your parent/adult. You may want to take additional notes during your discussion.

4. Write and post your response in paragraph form using a topic sentence and proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

5. Read and respond to at least two of your classmates' posts.

[Camille Baldovino]

                              There are many different reasons why a society may rise, but I will state four of the most important factors in my opinion. One of the reasons are the advancements, inventions and discoveries because an advancement in a society can cause a change on the citizens health, economic abundance, etc. Also, an advancement, or in this case, an invention like the shovel as an example, can lead to different discoveries as to new medicine features, ancient artifacts, or resources (food, oil, water, gold, etc.) that can help the society become more powerful. Another reason a society may rise is the matter of the people, since the citizens are what create the civilization to what it is. As far as time goes, the people of the society can create everlasting changes in the society as the population of the empire, the freedom/rights, and the education for the young to grow well-minded. With who the people are, it establishes an overall impression on the civilization itself. An important factor to the success of a society is the knowing of the history of the civilization. When knowing the history of an empire, you can understand more of the situations that had occurred during the time period of a downfall or a flourished occasion. All societies need a leader, but if that leader is not cooperative or strong, the society could actually lead to a disastrous problem which is another reason. Which is why an empire must have someone in charge to take care of problems but still support and cooperate with the population. Since the people of the public need a leader who will lead them to victory but still have trust in what the leader's decision is. In conclusion, there are various ways in which a society may flourish but some make more of a difference than other options.

[Spencer Seltzer]

@CamilleBaldovino

 

Wow, great writing, I totally agree.

[Spencer Seltzer]

Four possible factors that lead to the rise and success of a civilization are; industrialization, access to healthcare, access to clean water, and diversification of commerce. As we learned in the BBC video, the Industrial Revolution caused Western European countries to rapidly rise in both wealth and health. Rising in wealth in "3rd World Farmer", allowed the farmer to be able to afford healthcare. This is also evident in the video in that when wealth rises, so does health. Access to clean water allows people to grow crops, raise livestock, and most importantly, keep themselves healthy by not drinking dirty water. In "3rd World Farmer" I found that when I diversified my crops and livestock I could withstand a disease that wiped out the pigs, because I still had chickens. Or when my corm crop failed, the peanuts would thrive. In conclusion, the diversity of crops, and the implementation of tools, buildings, and healthcare are what made countries become wealthy and thrive.

[Paige Holloway]

As demonstrated in video, "200 Countries, 200 Years" people throughout the world are living longer lives and are recieving higher incomes than they did 200 years ago.  Four factors that have contributed to this improvement include freedom of countries, new ideas and developments, better employment, and the access to education.   In the video it was mentioned that countries who lacked freedom to invent and develop new ideas such as Asia and Africa were not affected by the Industrial Revolution, therefore they were not able to progress as a society.  Meanwhile, other countries like the USA, the UK, and the Netherlands were discovering new improvements in transportation, technology, and advancements in medicine and science. These discoveries lead them further towards health and wealthiness.  With these develpoments came new job opportunities for succeeding countries. Being able to obtain an education also provided extra power to societies because it  taught people new ways of thinking. Over the past 200 years all countries have shown improvement but ones that benefited the most were those who specialized in these four factors.

[Paige Holloway]

@SpencerSeltzer I really liked the way it was written. Especially how you tied 3rd World Farmer in. Great job!(:

[Paige Holloway]

Good points I didn't think about it that way. Great way to put it!! (:

[tanner ward]

                           I totally agree with all of you @CamilleBaldovino @SpencerSeltzer @PaigeHalloway

[tanner ward]

                                    Their are too many reasons a country can rise to the top or fall into disparity. I am only going to state four reasons ,opinions,  that some countries are at the top. Number one, is the technology if we never had technology or any country where would we be, what would we do with our crops or our livestock?If the country does not have good soil to grow off of then you will not be so successful for example people that are experiencing drouts can't grow as well with people who have had rain and good sunlight. The countries past achievement are huge too. If we had never made the computer, or the phone what would you be looking at right now, how would our government learn whats going on in this country? If we had never fought off the British then we would have been colonized and swopped out by them. Then the education of all people is a major advantage in most countries that aren't in debt and are not in a war are educated, on the other hand having no education about your crops livestock or how to sell or anything for that matter will lead to you making no money and ending up at the bottom. Lastly, health if you have no health what do you think will happen? All countries have sickness but most countries make cures for those sicknesses and sell them for money to keep the government and the economy flowing. Most countries that are at the top are healthy, wealthy, educated, and have good technology. In this world you can not be at the top if you don't have those four essentials.

[Averi Stegeman]

I never thought that a shovel could lead to so much! I love your vocabulary word choices!

[Averi Stegeman]

A society may rise or succeed in a variety of ways. One means to this is if there is a good crop harvest and the market prices are high. If you have more money, you will be able to build more homes, buy more pleasure items, and buy more necessities. If you buy more items from the market, then more jobs can be created. Another way a society may make progress is when an invention is created that helps improve the society. An example would be the invention of the car.   Now individuals can increase their delivery time, access to customers and other needed products. A third reason a culture may rise is if they create a government. A ruler would guide a kingdom, or empire, to make better choices.  Having a successful government would hopefully reduce fighting and allow the people to act for the better of all.  A final reason that a kingdom may rise is if they get along better with other societies. War tears apart kingdoms and families, burns crops, and just causes problems that may take decades to fix.  War is expensive both during and after.  By treating each society with respect  they can work together in improving trade and advances in many areas.  Advancement is necessary for a society to become more stable, and for the people to lead better lives.

[Brendan Skwara]

                 There is a number of ways a society can advance, but I will only tell you four that I think are the most important in my opinion. The four are politics, technology, agriculture, and medicine. Politics (aka government) influences the protection a society has. Without any politics, a society can get attacked, invaded, or even annihilated. There are many forms of technology including electricity, transportation, and tools. Tools can help when planting because they can help increase crop yield. Agriculture is very important for any third world farmer because you need them to survive and thrive. Different strategies are made to help diversify crops, which helps protect against certain crop failures. Technological advancements can actually affect agriculture because new tools can be made to help farm or transportation can boost speed of crop sales. Finally, medicine is a very important part of any society; mostly because without it, people die. Medical advancements help make people live longer so more work can be done, and their lifespan increases, like mentioned in the “200 Countries, 200 years” video.

[Camille Baldovino]

@tannerward I appreciate how you introduced technology, but then transformed it into a topic on livestock and crops. Which goes into you next sentence and how you explained your reasoning. Well done :)

[Camille Baldovino]

@BrendanSkwara It was great that you highlighted all of your topics in the sentences. It really catches the reader's eye. Also, it was smart of you two connect your medical advancement reason to the "200 Countries, 200 years". Great Writing!!! :)

[Shelby Hickok]

The are numerous ways a society could rise, but I can only say four. These four are technology, medicine and medical care, government, and even the society's location. If we improve upon the technolgy we have, then we can solve problems, such as global warming and maybe in the future cars that don't run on gas. Medicine and medical care is important too because then less people will die of diseases. This runs into technology a bit, seeing as technology is used to create medicines, which are put into health care, which in turn heal the people will deadly diseases or sicknesses. Government would help a society, because laws would keep order in the the nation. If there were no laws, people could steal, or even worse, and the victims would fight back, maybe even creating a war in the society itself. Lastly is the society's location. This one is strange but true. If a society lived in a desert, with no food or water, no shelter, not even protection from sandstorms, then there is a very slim, practically impossible, chance of the society surviving. On the other hand, if a society lived in a plentiful forest, with a creek, trees for shelter or to make shelter with, with animals roaming about, then undoubtably a society could thrive in that area. On top of that, the soil by the the creek would be abounding with minerals, creating a good place to grow crops, creating yet another food source. The wood from trees could create buildings, tools; almost everythign you need to create an even better society, and eventually end up with a city. This also runs into technology, as the creation of new items improves the society. All of this can effect a society, and even more factors can be included.

[Abby Redding]

               There are an abundance of ways a society may rise. You would have to have an easy access to healthcare, so that when your people get sick they can be healed easily and can go back to working, which is another way to succeed. Growing crops increase your trade, or sales. Education is a great way to succeed, because when you get a good education you can get a good job. Another easy was to rise in your society is trade. In trading you get other goods from other countries that other countries might want to pay for or give something better that will help you in your society. Your society must be orderly and have laws, so people know that they can't commit crimes. There are many many ways for your society to rise, and these are just some of them.

[Emma Dozier]

Societies rise and fall but here is four factors that can help us succeed more throughout the years. Some of the factors include harvesting, trading, new achievements, technology and even little things like inventing tools without tools you wouldn't have a house or table. As you can tell from the video the USA was more towards the front the whole time which means we are healthier and richer than other countries such as Asia and Congo who were poor and sick. Freedom has a huge impact on rising and falling, people with more freedom can progress off different discoveries or make new inventions that will help their society, but people that don't have as much freedom are not able to come up with new achievements. now days what we need is more job opportunities so people can earn money. 3rd world farmer is a good example of harvesting and building to make money. In this game your goal is to keep your family alive and wealthy , the family needs a leader to take charge. A leader is important because you need someone to make decisions for your country. These different factors will help people along the path to success.

[Spencer Seltzer]

@ShelbyHickock Great paragraph. It is really crazy how everything, even where a society is located can effect a civilizations growth

[Spencer Seltzer]

@BrendenSkwara #Spencer- Highlighting the main ideas of the paragraph really helps the reader focus on the most important factors. Great job!

[Spencer Seltzer]

Thanks

[Abby Redding]

Great job! I agree! (: I love your wording!

[hunter andersen]

i like how you explained how more jobs can be created when you buy more items from the market.. good job.

[Cinthya Jauregui]

           As civilizations grow, they progress with four important factors that help them. These four factors are health, organization, natural resources, and economy. Health helps a civilization or empire lead to success because good health means the people could work more which makes more advances to their society. Organization makes the people work better; and since they work better they are more productive. Natural resources have a very important part on the progress of a country or civilization like water. Water plays the most important roll of all of the natural resources because water is vital to human life and gives fertile land, trees, animals, and transportation. Economy is also really important to the success of a civilization since it makes the people prosper by trading with other cultures. This trading later makes the civilization prosper. In conclusion, there are other factors that are also important to a civilization, empire, or country but these are the four factors I consider the most important.

[Greyson Graham]

    Many things can lead to the success of a society, but these four I think are the most important. First of all in a nations military power, if they are strong they can keep control over their lands and keep it's people safe, it also opens up the chance for the citizens to focus on other things and occupations. I believe the military can also help a nation bring in new technelogical advancments, overall, think of all the technology we have, the Internet for example, was first designed by the military for communication, the military has other important uses in the rise of a society. Another thing that plays a important role is the geography, it can be a huge factor in a society's success or failure, rivers for example, provide water and protection from attackers. And last but not least is the technology of the society, advances in medicene, military, and architecture play a key role, for the society is then safer, stronger, and healthier than their enemies. Those are the factors that I think play the biggest roles in a societies success.

[Shelby Hickok]

@CinthyaJauregui That is a very good point, our naturaly resources and water do have a very important role to play in a civilization's prosperity and success.

[Shelby Hickok]

@GreysonGraham I agree with you, having a military is important to keep the residents of a society safe from invaders. If the USA didn't have a military, then we would've already been destroyed in a war.

[Brendan Skwara]

@CinthyaJauregui I really appreciate your insight into organization because not many people would realize that organization influences societies in such a way.

[Brendan Skwara]

@ShelbyHickok I had not thought about the fact that the location of a society influences it so strongly, Thanks for pointing that out!

[Asia Fong]

                     Four factors that lead to sucess in a civlization for me were military, education, farming and health. The military is improtant because, if we didn't have one our safty wouldn't be insured. If a civlization did not have some form of education they would not be able to get jobs or sell things as easly. Another factor is farming, which is crucial to not only suvival, but also to exporting goods. One of the most important things a civlization needs is health, becauseif one is sick it could be contagious,someone has to help them and then they can't do their job. All of these examples are vital to the sucess of a civilization.

[Graham Bart]

I never thought that way about  the military it changed my mind on it ,that they are the people keeping us say from the enemies and makeing use proud as a society.

[Graham Bart]

i agree with your paragraph.

[Kailey Johnson]

Four factors that I have found that can lead to the success of a civilization are, keeping up with the world in technology, because if say, India has better cars that, say, Australia, then they might give away their good trade items for a steady supply of their cars, when they could be using those items for more important stuff. Another thing is, if the people in the nation aren’t healthy, they may all die out, like in Europe in 1348, nearly 60% of its population. If something like that happened, the country would be vulnerable to attack, and could easily fall. They would also want to make sure to have enough resources to keep themselves alive. If they didn’t have access to clean water, they would have to go to some pretty extreme lengths to get water, and they especially couldn’t get enough to give to a population of more than, 20,000 people or even a lot more! They would also want to live near fertile land, so that they could farm and grow food. They would also need to create tools such as, a weapon, a shovel, and other farming tools. Some factors that could lead to the downfall of a civilization, could be, a lack of a public safety unit (police), lack of resources, maybe a geography that was bad for protection, and possibly, just a bad leadership at the time. In conclusion, in the success of every great civilization, there have been many ups, and downs, but it almost always works itself out in the end, weather with a downfall, or with becoming an even better country. Hopefully, the better one. :)

[megan collins]

There are many different reasons why a society may rise, are government. One reason why the government helps our civilization rise is because it has protection over us and the civilization. The government also has control of our lives pretty much they decide how much money the jobs can give out they decide whether or not we do the things we do. Then there is religion, we know that the US is consumed with one religion when it comes to international relations—Islam—but human belief is a huge motivating factor on a broader level. It’s essential to remind ourselves that religious belief is a powerful force in shaping our attitudes towards ourselves, our societies, and our world. There are also food changes. If we look at early civilizations that declined and collapsed—the ones whose archeological sites we now study, such as those of the Sumerians and Mayans—more often than not it was a shortage of food that brought them down. There’s also agriculture, one reason that civilization first appeared in the Middle East was because agriculture had taken hold in this region

[megan collins]

I like how you explained  that " As you can tell from the video the USA was more towards the front the whole time which means we are healthier and richer than other countries such as Asia and Congo who were poor and sick." I totally agree with you because we are somewhat richer than asia and congo but i disagree with "people that don't have as much freedom are not able to come up with new achievements," because they are pretty creative when not so wealthy.

[nicole leonti]

One of the things that might help our society rise is a better economy. The economy that were in isn't very good so we lose jobs which makes companies lose money and then can't sustain there business. Another thing that might change and help our society is a better  security for our people. Maybe with better security people would feel safer in cities and go out a lot more to buy things to help other businesses, and keep our society going.Also we wouldn't have as many robberies and things stolen which would help businesses save more money to order new things for more business. One other is our middle class rising. If our middle class rises maybe our lower class will rise with it and make a better impact on our economy. The last thing that might help our society is open smaller corporations. If we open smaller corporations they would get bigger and make more businesses and help make more products and help make a better business and more money for our society.

[nicole leonti]

wow emma i love your paragraph and how you explain your thoughts!!!

[nicole leonti]

wow i totally agree wityh you and great writing!!!!!

[Skyler Watson]

There are multiple ways a society can lead to success. I am going to state four that I believe are the most important. One major reason for a society's success, is having a strong government. A well developed government means better protection and better education for the people. For example, if the society didn't have a decent government, and there was a war, there would be no one to protect the people and the society would fall. Another way a society can rise, is having good land for agriculture. If you have good land for agriculture, your trade will rise, and if your trade rises, then there will be more food and supplies for the people to benefit from. Technology can also make a huge improvement on a civilization. It helps the different civilizations communicate and once the technology reaches a certain level, it can also improve the transportation.  History plays a huge part in a society, too. If the society studies their past, they can see what failures and successes have happened and can improve from them and make sure they don't make the same mistakes. In my opinion, these four things are the most principle for a society's success.

[Cinthya Jauregui]

 @ Averi Stegman

I had not thought about Averi’s point that war could have such a great impact to a society during and after the war.

[Cinthya Jauregui]

@ Kailey Johnson

 

I really like the detailed examples you used like the population in Europe and the advancements in technology such as cars at "India and Australia".

[Jason Sanchez]

Good job. I never really thought about freedom causing a rise in a society

[Jason Sanchez]

Good job. I like how you highlited the words. It makes the paragraph light up.

[Abby Redding]

Good job. I agree with your government idea, I never thought of that! Great work (:

[Jason Sanchez]

There are many reasons why a society could rise or fall. I'm gonna name 4 reasons why a society could succeed. The 1st reason is the government. If a society has a strong government it can help them fend off attacks and expand their land. Another reason is technology. If a society has good technology it could help them grow crops faster and help them sell the crops quicker. The 3rd reason is medicine. Medicine helps cure diseases and helps people live longer. The final reason is agriculture. With good agriculture people could grow crops and grow goods which they could sell for money. Also having healthy livestock is an important key in agriculture. With a healthy livestock you can make more food and goods to eat and sell. Those are 4 reasons on how a society could succeed.

[Graham Bart]

The four factors that make our country succeed are by farming, technology, government, and exports and imports. The experience I had with 3rd World Farmer is it helps me see what other people did to survive when there was no electricity and how they succeeded over time. The video had similarities to 3rd world farmer like how you had to improve your quality of life to survive longer.  This enabled you to make more money, which enabled you to pay for health care which allowed you to live longer.  However, if you didn’t do well you couldn’t pay for health care, so if you got sick you could die from not being treated.  The video also showed that over time many people improved their quality of life and if everyone makes an effort we all have the ability to succeed.

[david izarraras]

Four contributing factors to a successful society are the ability to produce goods such as livestock and crops because one who grows food can sell their food. The development of an infrastructure such as roads and an  irrigation system can help a society rise as well because it allows a society not be so dependent on the weather. This control over their production of goods also allows a civilization to do business with other civilizations.Another factor is a good military force because a military could prevent an attack and also can help gain territory and power. Finally, the ability of the people to organize themselves and put together a set of laws to protect citizens and choose their leaders makes a civilization able to survive. 

[hunter andersen]

Over the 200 years in the video, it shows that most of the countries extended their life expectancies through trade, peace, technology and being green.  After the second world war, many countries were able to gain independence and peace with not just their county, but with others. This helped them extended there life expectancy and income per person. In third world farmer, when ever you grew cotton, corn ,and wheat, after they were done growing, they were able to trade these products for items that they need to survive.  Technology has increased over the centuries so countries are able to communicate with each other to become a peaceful society and help with trade.  Counties are now aware of global warmer and becoming green by recycling, inventing hybrid cars, and stopping the dumping of garbage in our oceans which were polluting the animals that provided food to the world.  All of these factors lead to the rise of our civilization. Further technology will increase life expectancy in the generations to come.

[david izarraras]

Asia, I agree with what you have stated. I also think that a strong military force is extremely vital to a civilization's survival. 

[david izarraras]

Tanner, I also think that we wouldn't be as far along as we are now if it weren't for today's technology.

[Greyson Graham]

@nicole leonti    I have to disagree with you, a security force is not very important in the rise of a society, personally I think that is something like a police force should be a second-hand objective in a society.

[Greyson Graham]

I completely agree with you about your ideas about government and technology, well done.

[Kailey Johnson]

I really like how you worded your post. I also like how you said "War is expensive both before and after" It is a lesson that people in our age dont seem to get. also, I Loved The rainbow colors! :)

[Kailey Johnson]

I liked how you highlighted the main ideas of the paragraph to really make people pay attention to it. I also liked how you worded your paragraph. Great job!

[hunter andersen]

Graham, what I like about your paragraph was that you mixed the 3rd world farmer with the video to show comparisons about how society improved life quality through healthcare.

[Averi Stegeman]

I like Spencer's idea that people will be more successful if they are healthier by not drinking dirty water.

[Averi Stegeman]

I like the way Paige compared some of her ideas to the "200 Countries. 200 Years" video.

[Averi Stegeman]

I like Abby's topic sentence because you could fit many ideas within that main topic.

[megan collins]

Paige I totally agree with you and I like how you brought the video into you paragraph.

[Ashley Bliss]

Wow I hadn't thought of it that way. Your a great writer!! Nice job Camille!!!

[Ashley Bliss]

I like the comparisons you made to 3rd world farmer. Good job Graham!!

[Asia Fong]

   @Skyler Watson

 

      nice work. I never thought about how important  technologyis to a civilization.

[Asia Fong]

@David Izarraras

 

 I never thought about infrastructure. Nice writing.

[Skyler Watson]

@CamilleBaldovino I totally agree with you about history being so important in a civilization!

[Skyler Watson]

@tannerward I like how you pointed out that our world would be a lot less successful if we didn't have the technology we do today.

[Emma Dozier]

I agree with you. I liked how you included the natural resources part.

[Emma Dozier]

i agree with you, i liked how you highlighted the four factors really good job.

[Skyler Watson]

@PaigeHolloway I really like how you included that new ideas and developments can effect a society.