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Module 6 2) What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration? Many empires like, Assyrian, Romans, Arabs, and Mongols had their empires end due to being overtaken, whereas with Europe’s African and Asian empires the end had been associated with the mobilization of masses around a nationalist ideology. Many empires had collapsed in the twentieth century. As well as the Austrian as well as the Ottoman, following the end of World War I. Following, the Russian Empire falling apart even being under the Soviet Union. Then following World War II, the fall of both the German and Japanese empires. Eventually followed the movements of the African and Asian independence with all the stories of the other empires coming to an end and the ideas of national self-determination. There was an idea that humankind was divided into certain groups of people, or by nations, which each had deserved an independent state. There was a ...

Write a short (3-page) essay that puts the current coronavirus pandemic into historical context. Use the information you learned in Module 5 to get you started. You do not need to do additional research unless you decide it is necessary. However, you do need to cite all sources of information you end up using in your essay. Include both in-text citations such as (Strayer 91) and a Work Cited section at the end. Your essay should be 3 pages and include the following elements / address the following questions: Xerena Sarria  Professor Andrews World History  16 April 2020 Word Count: 1043 Covid-19 What really is a “pandemic”? What factors are involved to really make something qualify as a pandemic? To begin, a pandemic is known as a new virus that emerges and is able to be spread throughout people in one way or another. With it being a new virus, there is pretty much no cure, no vaccine, or anything, which usually makes it global, since many people travel a...

Module 5 The coronavirus pandemic is not the only one humanity has suffered. Spend some time for this class session learning about any other historical pandemic by doing self-guided research. What other pandemic can you find that has plagued humanity? Where did it strike? Why were people vulnerable to it? How long did it last? Did the people who experienced it learn anything from the experience / do anything differently afterwards? What were the long-term effects of it on human populations or on the planet? These questions are just to get you started. You do not need to answer them all, (but you can if that is helpful). Summarize what you learn in your blog post for April 9.  My focus for module 9 will be about the AIDS pandemic. AIDS first spread in the  1900’s. It was spread into the United States in about the 1980’s and still continues to live on today without treatment. It’s harmful to humans because it’s an attack on the human immune system. It goes on and ruins the b...