HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deep Time, Sept, Yuri Knorozov
26 Oct 2016
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Hist 122 making of the modern world. What does world history involve big planet wide questions out of the box history. Big history deep time of cosmos. Myth scale doesn"t matter, its all about the individual in today"s society we are wrapped up in wealth, celebrities, consumption. Kim and kanye tie the knot. Microsoft-founder hasn"t worth of 76 billion consumption our renewable energy is going up but not as fast as our fossil fuels. Part of world where clutter, mass production and obesity exists in contrast with other part of world where ppl. are starving and have next to nothing. * extremes within the countries are now even more extreme. 1820"s -diff. between the richest and poorest countries was about 3 to 1. Britains gdp/ capita = vs chinas= . 1922 the ratio shifted to 72 to 1 ex. Usa gdp/capita= $ 21, 558 vs ethiopia= . Jami- al- tawarikh by rashid al- din, 1305-1306.
