1. Global Studies 9 Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Weber
Enduring Issues
Global Studies 9
Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Weber

2. Conflict Serious disagreement or argument
Based on differences in opinions or opposing ideas
Example
Problems or struggle between individuals, groups of people or nation.
Questions
What causes conflict?
What effects does it have?

4. Cooperation The process of working together to achieve the same goal.
Example
Someone helps you lift a table, when you play on a team, or when nations come together to solve a mutual problem.
Questions
Why do we cooperate with one another? What effects can cooperation have?

6. Enduring Continuing or long-lasting over time. Example
Chronic back pain that lasts a person’s entire life,\
Religious differences between Muslims and Jews
Question
Why do certain problems continue to exist over long periods of time?

8. Environment The area around people in which they live.
People affect their environments, and their environments affect them.
Example
Industrialization has led to air pollution, which has made people sick.
The desert is so hot and dry that people have had to move to areas that have
better soil for farming.
Questions
How does our environment affect us?
How do we affect our environment?

10. Innovation A change, new method or new idea.
Can have positive or negative effects.
Example
People began to farm and domesticate animals which led to the first
settlements.
The invention of the internet has made information available to more
people sooner.
Question
Do the benefits of an innovation outweigh the costs?

12. Interconnectedness
Having connections or relationships with other people
Can be caused by cultural diffusion, and have positive or negative impacts
Examples
Spread of disease from European explorers to the native peoples of the Americas
Printing techniques learned from the Chinese were used to develop the printing press.
Question
Do the benefits of interconnectedness outweigh the costs?

14. Issue Challenge or problem for debate or discussion Examples
Violations of human rights
Poverty in certain areas
Question
Why is the issue a problem and what are its effects?

16. Power Ability to influence or control the behavior of people Examples
Kim Jong Un of North Korea
Hitler and the Nazis of Germany
Questions
How is power gained, maintained, and lost?
What are the effects on the people?

18. Inequality
The state of being unequal; one group has more than another.
Examples
Differences between people of various social classes.
Men having more rights and power than women.
Questions
Why is there inequality?
What effects does inequality have?

20. Ideas and Beliefs Shape the way people look at the world
Come from observation, religion, parents, books, friends
Examples
Major world religions
Political ideas of different parties.
Question
How do ideas and beliefs shape our lives and the world around us?

22. Population Growth Occurs when more people are born than die.
Better health care, more food, new inventions help people live longer.
Examples
Population grew after farmers found new ways to grow food.
Population of China is more than 2 billion people.
Question
What effects does population growth have on a civilization or nation?