Prologue, Intro to Part One:
This section of the book is summarizing 4 significant things; big history, cosmic calendar, the three C's, and comparative world history. Big history is "the history of everything" going all the way back from the Big Bang up until the present time. The cosmic calendar is important because it tracks back 13.7 billion years ago when the Big Bang happened and tracks from there forward what significant dates needed to be recorded (i.e. oxygen forms on earth - December 1, 1.3 billion years ago). The cosmic history has also prompted conflict relating to religion and philosophical theories relating to the meaning of human life. The three C's stand for; change, comparison, and connections. Lastly comparative world history can follow into the same category as one of the three C's (comparison). The book sums it up best, that comparative world history, "sets European achievements in a global and historical context, helping us to sort out what was distinctive about the development of Europe and what similarities it bore to other major regions of the world."
Chapter 1
Out of Africa:
It is said that Africa was where the "human revolution" and "culture" were established. The word "culture" is very important to the African people and how they adapted to their everyday activities. From the living environments to the new technological innovation (hand tools), Africa was the first place to show that. The rest of the section talks about how humans migrated from place to place. Starting with the migration out of Africa into the Middle East going westward from there into Europe and then eastward into Asia. Then Indonesians started to migrate into Australia. Continuing on to the earliest settlement in the Western Hemisphere. In what they call the "Americas" the first settlement was by what archeologists call the Clovis culture. Ending with the last phase of the human migration - the Pacific Ocean.
The Ways We Were:
Humans on Earth started out as hunter gathers. Being the core of what we now call the Paleolithic societies. When reading the study of the San people, it is clear that the Paleolithic societies actions would be frowned upon in most of cultures and countries today. It is said that the biological environment that hunting and gathering people was shaped by their own hands and not just on nature. When talking about religion, different Paleolithic societies believed in different things - very similar to how religion is today. Lastly the section talks about how the Paleolithic culture "settled down and transitioned" marking a major turn in human history. When a vast majority of hunter gathers would form communities it would cause a much higher demand on the environment compared to when hunter gathers were a small band of people on the move.
This section of the book is summarizing 4 significant things; big history, cosmic calendar, the three C's, and comparative world history. Big history is "the history of everything" going all the way back from the Big Bang up until the present time. The cosmic calendar is important because it tracks back 13.7 billion years ago when the Big Bang happened and tracks from there forward what significant dates needed to be recorded (i.e. oxygen forms on earth - December 1, 1.3 billion years ago). The cosmic history has also prompted conflict relating to religion and philosophical theories relating to the meaning of human life. The three C's stand for; change, comparison, and connections. Lastly comparative world history can follow into the same category as one of the three C's (comparison). The book sums it up best, that comparative world history, "sets European achievements in a global and historical context, helping us to sort out what was distinctive about the development of Europe and what similarities it bore to other major regions of the world."
Chapter 1
Out of Africa:
It is said that Africa was where the "human revolution" and "culture" were established. The word "culture" is very important to the African people and how they adapted to their everyday activities. From the living environments to the new technological innovation (hand tools), Africa was the first place to show that. The rest of the section talks about how humans migrated from place to place. Starting with the migration out of Africa into the Middle East going westward from there into Europe and then eastward into Asia. Then Indonesians started to migrate into Australia. Continuing on to the earliest settlement in the Western Hemisphere. In what they call the "Americas" the first settlement was by what archeologists call the Clovis culture. Ending with the last phase of the human migration - the Pacific Ocean.
The Ways We Were:
Humans on Earth started out as hunter gathers. Being the core of what we now call the Paleolithic societies. When reading the study of the San people, it is clear that the Paleolithic societies actions would be frowned upon in most of cultures and countries today. It is said that the biological environment that hunting and gathering people was shaped by their own hands and not just on nature. When talking about religion, different Paleolithic societies believed in different things - very similar to how religion is today. Lastly the section talks about how the Paleolithic culture "settled down and transitioned" marking a major turn in human history. When a vast majority of hunter gathers would form communities it would cause a much higher demand on the environment compared to when hunter gathers were a small band of people on the move.
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