| Question | Answer |
| What does ESPN-HD stand for? | Economics, Social, Political. Nature, Historical, Demographics |
| Stage 1 - Economics | hunter-gatherers; agriculture |
| Stage 1 - Social | tribal loyalties, religious cosmologies, small clans and tribes (30-200 people), each tribe has own languages, rules, and customs, children an asset, money and ownership with agriculture |
| Stage 1 - Politics | egalitarian societies with hunter-gatherers; development of cities, hierarchies develop, and people specialize with agriculture |
| Stage 1 - Nature | disease, famine, and war with HG, contagious diseases with cities and domestication of animals (small pox); very low ecological impact; some specifies of flora and fauna extinct |
| Stage 1 - History | 200 kya- 10,000 HG; 10,000-1750 Agriculture |
| Stage 1 - Demographics | High CBR 40 ; High CDR 39 ; low NIR 0.05% HG, 0.1% AG; low population 5 million HG, 10 million Ag, 100 million by 1 CE, young population |
| Stage 2 - Economics | early industrial (textiles and simple metals); mass production; the development of wealth for the first time; the rise of a middle class |
| Stage 2 - Social | MaProd leaves time specialize&innovate;shift to science &reason over mysticism, strong sense of nationalism, religion plays big role,tribal loyalites remain on local level,children still assets,women and minorities still inferior; cultures begin to clash |
| Stage 2 - Politics | nationalism develops, more structured national governments; governments still very unstable (LDCs); military rulers and dictatorships |
| Stage 2 - Nature | age of receding pandemics due to scientific and technological advances, contagious diseases do increase in urban areas, spread in cities due to high populations (cholera) high environmental impact, pollution and depletion of resources |
| Stage 2 - History | 1750-1870 West (MDCs); 1940-1970 the rest (LDCs) |
| Stage 2 - Demographics | High CBR 35 ; Lower CDR 15 ; HIGHEST NIR 2% to 2.5% ; high population: 500 million rises to 1 billion |
| Stage 3 - Economics | mature industrial (metals, machines), mass production; a middle class begins to develop, but there are still areas that remain very poor |
| Stage 3 - Social | women become educated and self-aware, minorities gain some rights, children become more of a liability; clashes with global culture continue as local culture tries to maintain identity |
| Stage 3 - Politics | international relations; supranational organizations, more stable governments and democracies develop, but the political structure is still vulnerable to dictators and military regimes |
| Stage 3 - Nature | vaccinations, access to health care, life expectancy increases; very high environmental impact, pollution and depletion of resources |
| Stage 3 - History | 1870-1970 (MDCs); 1970-1990 (some LDCs: Latin America and Asia); all of the world was at 2 or 3 during this period so the world has its largest population growth from 1950-1990 |
| Stage 3 - Demographics | Lower BR 25 ; Lower CDR 10 ; High NIR 1.5% ; high population 1 billion to 3 billion, still large population growth |
| Stage 4 - Economics | Tertiary (service based), mass consumer society |
| Stage 4 - Social | women delay child birth for careers, global culture dominates; mass communications, materialism, consumerism, urbanism, western ideologies dominate, societies become more secular |
| Stage 4 - Politics | international relations; on a world stage top of the political hierarchy; supranational organizations; stable democracies but political structures become polarized (meaning there are two extremes) |
| Stage 4 - Nature | health care access; age of degenerative diseases (heart disease &cancer); detrimental eco. impacts; highest emitters of CO2,use of natural resources,pollution;depletion of resources become apparent &visible, deforestation, desertification, killing species |
| Stage 4 - History | 1970 to present (MDCs) some Asian countries |
| Stage 4 - Demographics | very low CBR 15 ; Low CDR 5 ; Low NIR 0.1% or even lower 0.5% even negative in some countries ; high population 1 billion to 3 billion |
