Please watch the video above and answer the questions below in the response box. Remember to provide detailed descriptions, examples, and specific events from the video, thanks!
Slumming It Questions
- What are Diphtheria, Typhoid & Tuberculosis?
2. What is the problem with rats being not contained in urban areas? (consider the Black Death in Europe in 1346-49).
3. Dhobi Ghat – What are they? (Communal Washing Houses).
4. Religion appears to play an important part in the life of the city. What is the major religion and is their a rise of Islam?
5. 500 people per toilet – what is the problem with that? (exponential nature of the situation if a toilet breaks) 1-500 becomes 1-1000.
China’s Empty Cities
- Why does China have 64 million unoccupied homes? Explain a single paragraph in the response below, thanks!