Third World

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Third World field trips
40 years of travel research in three hours of
lectures!
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300-900 AD
The Roman Empire was already declining.
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About 50 percent of Guatemala's 11 million people
are Indians, who speak 24 indigenous languages.
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1.5 of farmers own 63 of farmland. 20 of White
men own cars only 5 of Indian men do.
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99 percent of the population owns 20 percent of
the land.
Copal, resin collected from pine trees in the
surrounding mountains, is burned in Roman
Catholic churches.
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1 peso 1 Pepsi OR 1 peso 20 kg. of corn for a
family for a week.
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The Cathedral in Mexico City is the largest in
Latin America. It took 300 years to build. The
Zocalo (plaza) in front of it is the largest in
the world.
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Lumberjacks averaged 10-15 per week food for a
family of six cost 6 per week.
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In the 19th century the Yucatan was an informal
colony of Chicagos International Harvester,
which turned the sisal into bailer twine for
Midwestern farmers. The planters built
wedding-cake mansions in Merida and sent their
children to schools in New Orleans and Havana.
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Source Adam Livermore, geography major,
traveling in Costa Rica Panama.
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West Africa
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350 years of slave trade -- 9.5 million slaves
Dutch Fort 1637
Portuguese Fort 1482
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South Asia
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Galle, Sri Lanka Portuguese 1580-1640 Dutch
1640-1796 British 1796-1948 Independence 1948
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Tea is grown in the Hill Country, above 1,220
meters.
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British colonials brought the Tamil Hindu
minority (from India) to pick tea.
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The British grew coffee (until 1869), and later,
tea plantations in 1948 the socialist
government nationalized most of these private
estates.
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3 billion people in the world depend on rice for
their food!
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Sinhalese Buddhist are the majority in Sri Lanka.
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What food is being sold at this roadside shop?
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The bounty of the tropics. Why would people being
hungry?
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Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka's first capital in the
4th century BC.
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A Buddhist statute
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The rock fortress of Sigiriya, the Lion Rock was
built by King Kashyapa, in the last quarter of
the 5th Century to fend off the persistent South
Indian invaders.
People climb up the 200-meter precarious metal
steps to see the temple dancers painted in the
caves 1,500 years ago.
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And you think studying is hard work?