3TVa §1.8 Challenging questions

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3TVa §1.8 Challenging questions

§1.8 Challenging questions 

• You can answer these questions at your own chosen speed
• Write down well-composed sentences, as you would do in a test.
• You will get individual feedback on your answers, before the test on September 29th.
• You can find the feedback on your answers in LessonUp.

1. Colonial history + economic growth

South Africa and Mozambique have different colonial histories.

Explain the difference between the economical growth between Mozambique and South Africa, using this historical difference as the cause.

Maps and statistic on next slides

You will write your answer in another slide

GDP per capita

1.
South Africa and Mozambique have different colonial histories.
Explain the difference between the economical growth between Mozambique and South Africa, using this historical difference as the cause.

2 + 3 Economic vulnerability

The economy of Qatar and Saudi Arabia depends on exports of resources. The GDP/head of Saudi Arabia and Qatar is almost double the GDP of the United States and The Netherlands. Still, the economy of Qatar and Saudi Arabia is more vulnerable than that of triad countries. Explain this vulnerability.

You will write your answers on 2 and 3 in two different slides

Maps and statistic on next slides

Choropleth: using shades of one color (in a map)

2.
The economy of Qatar and Saudi Arabia depends on exports of resources. The GDP/head of Saudi Arabia and Qatar is almost double the GDP of the United States and The Netherlands. Still, the economy of Qatar and Saudi Arabia is more vulnerable than that of triad countries. Explain this vulnerability.

3.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are not considered core countries, although they do have a very high GDP/head.
Why are they ‘followers’, and not core countries?

4. Chinese investments in African railways

The railways the Chinese are working on now are usually

degraded railways from the industrial colonialism period. Why does it make sense that the Chinese, like the former colonists, invest billions in these railways?

Maps on next slides

You will write your answer in another slide

What map would you need to understand why a train stops here? What woud Africa (usually) export to foreign countries?

This is the end of the line. Why? 

4. The railways the Chinese are working on now are usually
degraded railways from the industrial colonialism period.
Why does it make sense that the Chinese, like the former colonists, invest billions in these railways?

Which question would you like to have reviewed, in class?

1. 1. Colonial history + economic growth
2. 2. Economic vulnerability - periphery
3. Economic vulnerability - followers, not core
4. Chinese investments in African railways