SOCY 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Navy, Fertile Crescent, Industrial Revolution
25 Mar 2017
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Key questions: what effects do the differences in orientation between continental axes have on human history, what made the spread of food production more difficult in the. Appreciation of impact of guns, germs and steel. The only way to understand the present is to understand where we came from - diamond. History is a tool for diamond, that he uses to describe the present context. In central eastern africa is where we came from, we then spread to the region of the middle east, down to australasia, at the same time spreading to asia, over the northern end of asia to north. There are a number of inventions, such as writing, the alphabet, provided means to draw contracts, carry messages. Invention of the wheel- helps to carry heavy things, transportation. The history of the world is a narrative- a story. History of globalization is a particular lens or tool we use to study this narrative.
