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summary the wealth and poverty of nations landes why some are so rich and some are so poor Super fast reading, love this summary!!Poverty and wealth of nations Preface -Elements decline of disease: affordable underwear and soap common people(hygiene),

better nutrition: transport, more supply,

-Medical care better -Difference income per head grown.

First: 5 to 1, now 400 to 1 (richest vs poorest)

-> with production comes waste, west vs the rest Chapter 1 -Huntington: classified civilizations hierarchically according to the favors of climate -most underdeveloped countries lie in the tropical and semi-tropical zones.-other factors: technology, colonial powers(slave trade, depopulation:revert to bush) -people avoid extreme heat or cold, unless benefits(gold, scientific inquiry) can be

found. Cold; put on clothes, heat: don't move(air

conditionig) -heat brings insects

-europeans brought doctors with them, they did more harm than good: didn't know

the cause until germs study -drainage of swamps: clear air, mosquitos disappeared: malaria deaths went down

-Water:rainfall irregular and unpredictable, cultivation is difficult

-nature catastrophes Chapter 2 Europe and China

-slow development Europe: dense forests, no cutting tools first

-Europe had taller horses: advantage in battles and cultivation

-dairy and protein rich diet: grew taller and stronger than Chinese

-Chinese people: work for their food, loan for oxen, little room for animals: no dairy/animal diet, or woollen clothing, effective agriculture system 3 / 4

summary the wealth and poverty of nations landes why some are so rich and some are so poor Chapter 3 European Expectionalism -10 th century: Europa was coming out of a long torment of invasion, plunder and rapine -Vikings: wealth of churches and castles, Moors: raid trade routes southern and eastern Europe, Rus: ruling class, Hungarians: raided Europe, but came back to their own base with stuff and slaves -Said that freedom of aggression helped economic growth -10 th – middle 14 th

century: economic growth and population, Black Death, 150 years after

Black Death: rebuilding

-Better farming techniques: more food (3- field system in stead of 2)

-Women and children were also used for labor: weaving at their own home, being

underpaid. -> Cheap competition guilds -Use of division of labor and specialization: transaction costs cheaper (costs of a business) Chapter 4 Invention of inventions

-Water wheel: invented romans, reinvented 10

th and 11 th century, used for grain/wool and paper

-Eyeglasses: useful people with fine jobs, Pisa end of 13

th century, pushed the invention of fine instruments

-Mechanical clock: before this water and sun clocks were used, 13

th century in Italy and England, precise and reliable, order and control

-Printing: in China 9

th century, Europe first printed book Bible by Gutenberg in 15 th century,

-Gunpowder: China 11

th century, Europe early 14 th century discovered from the Chinese, noise and killing power, 16 th

century they corned the powder: more

complete explosion -Reasons innovations Europe: religious values ( respect manual labor, subordination of nature to man, sense of lineair time) and the market in Europe: enterprise was free, innovation paid

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