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Geographic Determinism

Slavery and the Modern World

• https://www.cfr.org/interactives/modern-slavery/#!/section3/item-18

This link talks about slavery in the modern world

• https://borgenproject.org/top-10-modern-day-slavery-facts/

This link lists multiple facts about slavery in the modern world

Violence in Immigration

• https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/files/reports/Fatal%20Neglect%20ACLU-DWN-NIJC.pdf

Talks about the violence/neglect in immigration detention centers.

• https://time.com/5623148/migrant-detention-centers-conditions/

Condition in immigration centers. Mariee’s case. What the Flores law is.

Racism, Violence, and Colonization

• https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/04/09/race-in-america-2019/

• https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(18)30784-5/fulltext

• https://www.litcharts.com/lit/guns-germs-and-steel/themes/racism-violence-and-colonization

• https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/critic/racism-algeria.htm

• https://opentextbc.ca/indigenizationinstructors/chapter/how-racism-maintains-inequity-and-colonization/

Spread of Infectious Diseases

• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2Fabout%2Ftransmission.html

This link talks about the different ways that the Coronavirus can spread :

• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/was-coronavirus-a-bioweapon-we-dont-know-but-history-shows-we-cant-trust-china

• https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-link-china-biowarfare-program-possible/

Larger, more developed countries almost always are the center of deadly diseases starting.

These countries also are at higher risk of said diseases spreading:

• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html

Diffusion, Trade, and Disease

Government, Centralization, and the State

Technology and Creativity

• https://www.yourdictionary.com/technology-resource

• https://www.theedadvocate.org/how-technology-can-expand-creativity-and-innovation-in-education/

A History of Grain

Guns Germs and Steel

Development of Civilization

Genetically Modifying Crops/Agriculture Revolution

https://www.britannica.com/topic/agricultural-revolution

The Arrow Of Disease Diamond

• https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-arrow-of-disease

• http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2002/10/01/655611.htm

War & Technology

• https://www.britannica.com/technology/military-technology

• https://warontherocks.com/2019/12/the-future-of-war-technology-whispers-to-us-from-the-past-and-we-must-listen-better/

European Settlement in Latin America

The Colonization of America: Genocide

Hunter Gathering versus Civilization

Christopher Columbus

Chain of Causation

Technology as a military advantage

Disease as genocide paving the way for colonization

Literacy as military advantage