200 years in 4 min

Today in honors human geo we started the class by discussing how to help the African nations that still occupy the sick and poor part of the graph.  one way that we discussed on how to help these nations was by sending in American oil companies to assist these nations in their economy.  the American oil companies would go in and show these countries how to use the technology that they possess to drill for and collect oil.  then once they left these countries economies would prosper, and the US oil companies could gain money from this deal.  There were many pros to this including, we could earn a new trade partner, these countries would prosper economically, and with their health system.  then there were also several cons, for example, these countries do not have the best democracies, and their governments are quite corrupt, because of this, the governments might just keep the money for themselves, and the Oil companies could only sign with countries that have stable democracies.  then after this, we took a quiz on the 200 years in 4 min.  This quiz was quite easy, and I believe that I got full marks on it.  These questions focused on main points in the video such as what brought the countries up or down on the graph, and where the US, China, and Ghana