Investigating human social life in world history can provide a very detailed description of the ‘average world person’. The term, ‘average world person’ is quite abstract. For example, the average world person is the usual member of an ordinary human society shown in any given historical era. As shown in Alderson and Sanderon’s book (2005, p. 243), three examples throughout human society can illustrate a general idea of the average world person. The first example, 15,000 years ago, the average world person was either a hunter or gatherer. Secondly, 3,000 years ago, the average world person would have been a peasant farmer and finally, today’s average world person is an urban worker or a Third World laborer.
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Looking at the quality of diet for the average world person in any given historical era can give an insight to their standard of living. For example, hunter-gatherers quality of diet was high regarding its abundance in nutrition and calories. However, a peasant’s quality of diet had dropped significantly, surviving on little meat and mostly bread. Furthermore, the Industrial Revolution came with benefits such as mass production of food and resources, making them more readily available to the average world person. In the modern world, the quality of diet is still not as nutritious as the hunter/gatherer diet, but exceeds that of a peasant’s. Another way to determine a definition to the standard of living for the average world person is by looking at the level of health and the incidence of disease. Similarly, the hunter/gatherer societies actually had good health and low disease, whereas the peasants had very poor health and abundance of diseases. This was mostly due to a global population increase around the time of the Industrial Revolution (Alderson & Sanderson 2005, p. 245). The transition to modern industrial capitalist societies meant that there were enormous advances to the standard of living for the average world person. ‘Transportation revolutions over the past two centuries have changed human society …show more content…
Economically, politically, and culturally, there will be a dramatic continued globalization. This rapid connection of the one world will affect the average world person significantly. A quoted author, David Harvey (1989, pp. 285-286) states ‘that increasing globalization has led to a continual shrinking of the psychological experience of time and space, a phenomenon he calls the time-space compression...this period has been accompanied by dramatic changes in personal life of a very disruptive nature.’ Overall, the advanced globalization of the world will eventually result in severe forms of psychological destabilization of the average world person.
A further prospect for the future is the possibility of a world-annihilating war. By approximately 2030 the evidence suggested by the association between Kondratieff waves (K-waves) indicates the incidence of war. Alderson and Sanderson (2005, p. 261) believe that the presence of nuclear weapons will result in the complete destruction of the world when globalization in the future has reached its peak. However, to properly achieve ‘one world’, the nations will fight for capitalist power on a global
‘The key question concerns the …show more content…
Looking at the quality of diet for the average world person in any given historical era can give an insight to their standard of living. For example, hunter-gatherers quality of diet was high regarding its abundance in nutrition and calories. However, a peasant’s quality of diet had dropped significantly, surviving on little meat and mostly bread. Furthermore, the Industrial Revolution came with benefits such as mass production of food and resources, making them more readily available to the average world person. In the modern world, the quality of diet is still not as nutritious as the hunter/gatherer diet, but exceeds that of a peasant’s. Another way to determine a definition to the standard of living for the average world person is by looking at the level of health and the incidence of disease. Similarly, the hunter/gatherer societies actually had good health and low disease, whereas the peasants had very poor health and abundance of diseases. This was mostly due to a global population increase around the time of the Industrial Revolution (Alderson & Sanderson 2005, p. 245). The transition to modern industrial capitalist societies meant that there were enormous advances to the standard of living for the average world person. ‘Transportation revolutions over the past two centuries have changed human society …show more content…
Economically, politically, and culturally, there will be a dramatic continued globalization. This rapid connection of the one world will affect the average world person significantly. A quoted author, David Harvey (1989, pp. 285-286) states ‘that increasing globalization has led to a continual shrinking of the psychological experience of time and space, a phenomenon he calls the time-space compression...this period has been accompanied by dramatic changes in personal life of a very disruptive nature.’ Overall, the advanced globalization of the world will eventually result in severe forms of psychological destabilization of the average world person.
A further prospect for the future is the possibility of a world-annihilating war. By approximately 2030 the evidence suggested by the association between Kondratieff waves (K-waves) indicates the incidence of war. Alderson and Sanderson (2005, p. 261) believe that the presence of nuclear weapons will result in the complete destruction of the world when globalization in the future has reached its peak. However, to properly achieve ‘one world’, the nations will fight for capitalist power on a global