Explain the continuities and changes in the global economy from 1900 to present?

New modes of communication—including radio communication, cellular communication, and the internet—as well as transportation, including air travel and shipping containers, reduced the problem of geographic distance.Energy technologies, including the use of petroleum and nuclear power, raised productivity and increased the production of material goods.More effective forms of birth control gave women greater control over fertility, transformed reproductive practices, and contributed to declining rates of fertility in much of the world.The Green Revolution and commercial agriculture increased productivity and sustained the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically modified forms of agriculture.Medical innovations, including vaccines and antibiotics, increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer lives.

This is because of the idea of iconoclasm. The idea is that it is idolatry to draw paintings or similar things of saints or prophets because you would be praying to a statue or a painting instead of the idea of the spirit and the prophet themselves which is why it is idolatry. It used to be common even in the Christian world.