In reading a Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich you realize that history seems so much less complicated when you are the one standing back and reflecting on the past. You realize how easy it is to often forget that every single new idea, religion and war was a struggle that lasted generations upon generations. History is more than just a page or a story, its our account of the world. That goes to show how short life and history is, you realize that history is always repeating, war after war, peace then war. There are good and bad periods in history and its up to us to learn from them. In a way history is much like a human being it goes through stages, learns about life, and has inner struggles or wars about their ideas and their beliefs. History started out young and innocent, like us. This was long after the dinosaurs roamed the earth, when the start of …show more content…
This was where humanity became more knowledgable. Egyptians and the people of Mesopotamia-to name a few, elected leaders, harvested the land, and even created their own beliefs. The Alphabet was invented by a merchant civilization, while other civilizations started to form. The Greeks were just beginning to form. The gathering of civilizations named the Ionians, Dorians, and Aeolians fought the Cretans for the land that would become that of the Greeks. The Romans began to become more powerful. The concept of emperors and conquering land started to arise. People began to become poetic and wrote stories about adventure, philosophy and law. Peoples of the north came crashing into Europe known as the Germanic tribes. They stirred up many conflicts, as did the Huns who were people of the east who also wanted land. The east was growing quite prosperous, China had built their Great Wall, and the ideas of Confucius and Buddha enlightened people. While China was prospering, back in the west things were getting out of
1. Based on your reading of the two primary source documents for this module, in what ways do you feel these documents are historically significant? In what ways do documents such as these help historians to understand history? In the end, what were the main reasons for dropping these two weapons on Japan?
Chapter three is about early Africa and Egypt. Africa is divided into five sections by climatic and vegetative differences. The five sections were: Mediterranean, Sahel, Deserts, rainforest and savannah. Depending on the climate section in which they lived, the range of people in Africa urbanized special ways of being. The chapter also talked about the people that lived during this time. The first group was called the Khoisan. Initially they populated the eastern part of Africa. The next groups were called the Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic. At first regions by the Nile River valley were occupied. The final group was called Niger-Congo. They occupied the forests of western Saharan Africa over the wet phase.
The author, Robert B. Marks introduces the book, The Origins of the Modern World by introducing the reader to a global narrative of the origins of the modern world starting from 1400 to the present. The book presents the rise of the west as an issue of globalization of Asia, Africa, and the New World. Throughout the book, we see the connection made by the author between the environmental condition and the present economic status of a particular place. By the end of the book, readers are able to understand and reason out what created and solidified a gap between the east and the west, industrialized and non-industrialized and parts of the world that today are defined as the modern world.
Geography played a big role in determining the political units and economic institutions of Mediterranean society. The mountains interspersed throughout the Greek peninsula led to regionalism in the form of city-states. This was a departure from the centralized government of China. The fact that civilization developed along a peninsula also shaped Mediterranean culture. The ocean provided some protection from invaders and allowed for the advancement of trade.
The importance of our world's history is huge, because it teaches us about our past and how we came to be in the world we live in today. History can help you learn about our ancestor’s origins and cultures.
Lisbon is the main area that Henry the Navigator sent out his ships to discover the new world. This became a very popular trading depot because of its location and finding new things during exploration. This was a place where the Colombian Exchange happened, especially with what is now Brazil. This is also where Ferdinand Magellan set off to sail completely around the earth.
-Rome accepted inequality as well as institutionalizing and turning it into a system of mutual benefits.
Chapter three labeled "Empire Urban life and imperial Majesty in Rome,China,and India. In Republican Rome a man named Romulus inaugurated traditional distinction between the patricians and the plebian. The patricians were the where the land owners who were also aristocrats that served as priests, magistrates, lawyers and/or judges. The plebian were the lower classed poor people who consisted of craftsmen, merchants and laborers. In 510 BCE the roman people expelled the last Etruscan kings and decided to rule themselves with without the need for a monarchy.
1. What is made possible by the agglomeration of people, services, and goods in a city that is not possible, or far more difficult, in rural areas?
Think of history as everything from a minute ago to the end of
Now and days every person must take at least two years of history in order to pass high school. Many people, including myself, ask the question,“Why must we take history?” Well the answer many of us get is, “ So that history does not repeat itself.” The real question of the matter is, Does history repeat itself? History has repeated itself over and over again. An example of this would be the genocide that occurred in the Ottoman empire in 1915, nearly 88 years later another genocide has occurred in Darfur in 2003. These two events are both similar and different in ways, but none-the-less are proof that history does in deed repeat itself.
The introduction to Bill Bryson’s A Short History Of Nearly Everything describes the world at it’s most fundamental stage, and Bryson’s thirst for answers and excitement in science since adolescence. The way that Bryson describes our time on earth is almost a statement about mortality: “The bad news is that atoms are fickle and their time of devotion is fleeting-fleeting indeed. Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours” (10). To me, it resonates like a claim about living life to the fullest, and not taking the fact that “for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you” (10) for granted. Society seems to constantly grapple with the question
The current events that are happening now will be in a history textbook one day. History does not change. What happens in the past stays in the past and it can not be changed, though it can be repeated. This class has not made me appreciate the past any more or less because I feel like I am only in the class to take notes and past tests. I feel the same way about history as I did going into the class. I feel like it is a necessity and it is important, but I am not passionate about the subject. History does matter because it is how humanity learns from its mistakes and does not make them again. To put it simply, without history we would not know what types of things work and don’t work. We can use history today for good because we can improve upon our lifestyle, health, and prosperity by studying the
2. Translated by Samuel Lee, The Travels of Ibn Battuta. 51-68, 139-168, 172-176, 181-183, 199-206.
Why do people study history? People study history to learn from past mistakes made so societies do not repeat it. Modern people have so many examples through history of societies crumbling. From the fall of Rome, to the loss of the empire of Alexander the Great, these destructions were all caused by so much different reasons. But what if someone told our modern societies that we are falling from those same mistakes right now? What if someone told modern societies they are doomed to repeat the past no matter what people did? That someone would in fact correct be correct. The reasons that both modern and ancient cultures and societies fall is because of overpopulation, urban decay, and invasions, and these are demonstrated time and time