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MANKIND: THE STORY OF ALL OF US

EPISODE 11: SPEED

THIS WORKSHEET SET INCLUDES, IN ORDER, A 68-QUESTION FILL-IN-THE- BLANK, TRUE OR FALSE, AND SHORT ANSWER WORKSHEET. THE SET ALSO INLCUDES, IN ORDER, AN ANSWER KEY.

EPISODE SUMMARY FROM THE HISTORY CHANNEL: Mankind mobilizes toward modernity. In places like Japan, ancient traditions merge with newfound technologies. Some nations emerge as superpowers, amassing military might. From steamships such as the Titanic to skyscrapers like the Empire State Building, humans create infrastructure and vast communications networks. But progress has its dark side. The demand for rubber devastates Africa; warfare and poverty continue to threaten human survival and longevity.

Keys Include: Steel, Migration, Rubber, Skyscrapers

Terms to define: apocalyptic, colonial, liberating, mass production, reformer, rivets, tenement, micro-organisms

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Name ________________________________ Date ______________________ # ________

Mankind: The Story of All of Us

Episode 11: Speed

from The History Channel Series Mankind: The Story of All of Us

History Channel episode description: Mankind mobilizes toward modernity. In places like Japan, ancient traditions merge with newfound technologies. Some nations emerge as superpowers, amassing military might. From steamships such as the Titanic to skyscrapers like the Empire State Building, humans create infrastructure and vast communications networks. But progress has its dark side. The demand for rubber devastates Africa; warfare and poverty continue to threaten human survival and longevity.

MASS PRODUCTION

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1.Where was the Confederate Capital? ________________________________________

2.True or False. The Confederates plan to defend their capital till the last man standing.

3.The American Civil War, the bloodiest ____________________ in U.S. history.

____________________ Americans dead. More than World Wars I and II

____________________.

4.In modern ages what is they key to the success of mankind? _____________________

5.Four out of ____________________ factories are in the North, making

____________________ times more weapons, ____________________ times more ammunition.

6.Many Southerners still live a life based on what? _______________________________

7.Herring and Kent are meant to ____________________ the South’s most valued commodity: ____________________, and to destroy food and supplies, anything that could be of use to ____________________ troops.

8.True or False. The Richmond fire only burned the warehouses and the city was left in tact waiting for the Confederates to return.

9.What happens six days after the burning of Richmond? _________________________

10.What new cause do men now fight for? ______________________________________

11.How many U.S. patents were issued in 40 years? ______________________________

12.New inventions ____________________ produced. Identical ____________________

made separately, put together on the assembly ____________________. High volume, low ____________________. Around the world a chain reaction. Industry expands

____________________.

13.What country had a medieval way of life isolated from western progress? ___________

14.The Samurai live and die by what? __________________________________________

15.Samurai sword- Made from hammered ____________________.

____________________ layers, each 100,000 of an ____________________ thick. Sharp enough to slice through ____________________ human bodies at a time.

16.What dies Iwasaki do? __________________________________________________

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17.Iwasaki enters the barbershop a Samurai, but leaves a what? ____________________

18.What company does Iwasaki create? ________________________________________

19.What does this company build ships out of? __________________________________

20.In just over a ____________________, Mitsubishi becomes the world’s largest corporation building ____________________, planes, and ____________________.

21.Japan learns in a ____________________ what the west developed in a

____________________. Today, it’s the planet’s ____________________ richest nation.

SINKABLE TITANIC

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22.What do the Irish workers build out of steel? __________________________________

23.True or False. The Titanic is advertised as being unsinkable.

24.April 14, ____________________. R.M.S. Titanic bound for ____________________. Mankind puts its faith in ____________________. On board, a Morse Code message system, the ____________________ telegraph.

25.True or False. At 9:40 p.m. the Titanic received a warning about heavy ice and icebergs from another ship eight miles ahead.

26.How many passengers are on the Titanic? ___________________________________

27.True or False. A ticket for passage on the Titanic was inexpensive.

28.Steamships power the greatest ____________________ in human history. Over half a century, ____________________ in ____________________ people on the planet emigrate. The most popular destination, across the Atlantic: ____________________.

29.How many people migrate to the U.S.A.? _____________________________________

30.Why doesn’t Jack Phillips hear about the iceberg warning? _______________________

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31.Why was the Titanic not able to avoid the iceberg?

______________________________________________________________________

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32.Which cabins flood first? __________________________________________________

33.What is the new international distress signal? _________________________________

34.Why doesn’t the Californian come to the Titanic’s rescue?

______________________________________________________________________

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35.How much water pours into the Titanic? ______________________________________

36.Why can’t the third class passengers get up to the deck? ________________________

37.April ____________________, 1912, ____________________ A.M. Two and three quarter hours after hitting an ____________________, Titanic, the unsinkable ship,

____________________.

38.How cold is the water? ___________________________________________________

39.How long would it take to die of hypothermia in the water? ____________________

40.How many passengers and crew never reach New York? ____________________

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RUBBER REVOLUTION

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41.What does inventor Charles Goodyear want to figure out how to make more useful and resilient? ____________________

42.What does Goodyear add that provides a breakthrough? ____________________

43.The result, a material ____________________ like leather but ____________________. He calls the process vulcanization after the Roman God of ____________________.

44.True or False. Almost every machine in the Industrial Revolution relies on rubber fittings and seals.

45.The Congo. ____________________ square miles. Over ____________________

rubber plants. Under ____________________ colonial rule. The

____________________ of darkness.

46.What does the Congolese man bring to Alice Harris? ___________________________

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47.For ____________________ years, Belgium’s King Leopold has run the

____________________ as his own private estate. Millions forced to tap

____________________. The ____________________ line his pockets.

48.What happens when workers don’t make their quota? ___________________________

49.How many Congolese die during 15 years of Leopold’s ruler? ____________________

POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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50.Alice Harris will expose the ____________________ of Leopold’s regime and shift

____________________ opinion. A ____________________ that will change mankind.

51.Harris will tell the world what is happening in the ____________________, that children are routinely ____________________ as a warning to villagers. The weapon: a

____________________.

52.How much did the first cameras weigh? ______________________________________

53.How many amateurs have a camera by 1900? ________________________________

54.Harris takes hundreds of ____________________ in the Congo. They are published in

____________________ across the world, shocking ____________________ of readers.

55.True or False. Mark Twain joins the Congo Reform Association to campaign against the atrocities.

56.The campaign forces King Leopold to ____________________ the Congo and the rubber trade. ________________________________, a new power in a modern world.

____________________ to illuminating the planet’s darkest corners.

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WAR ON BACTERIA

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57.In Europe, the great powers are at ____________________. Mass production means new ____________________ more lethal than ever.

58.List three of the new weapons used during WWI. _________________________,

_________________________, _________________________

59.How many people die in WWI? _____________________________________________

60.What do 1/3 of the people during WWI die from? _______________________________

61.What is the life expectancy on the front line during WWI in France? ________________

62.True of False. Alexander Fleming was a bacteriologist on a quest to discover how to successfully treat wounds infected by bacteria.

63.What do some species of bacteria release that cripple the immune system and spread disease? _____________________________________

64.True or False. Bacteria have killed more people than all the wars in history combined.

65.By WWI, doctors realize there is a link between ____________________ and disease, but can’t stop ____________________ from spreading. The tried and tested cure, cut away ____________________, douse it in antiseptic, carbolic ____________________. A deadly trade off. The acid disinfects wounds but also ____________________ white blood cells. The body’s natural ____________________ against bacteria.

66.What does Fleming discover while working in a hospital in London in 1928?

____________________

67.Within 15 years, penicillin saves ____________________ lives a year. A miracle drug. The world’s first ____________________. Today we make ____________________

tons of it every year.

68.Medicine for ____________________ in a world shaped by mass _________________.

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