HIS101H5 Lecture 2: Early Humanity
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Study history, study history, in history lies all the secrets of statecraft. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unloved, but if faced with courage, need not to be lived again. Good history is painful but morally worth it. Probing into events, connecting their narrative ow, nding. Evidence only shows what happened in the past. History is the witness that testi es to the passing of time it illuminates reality, Ian mortimer- provides a broad scope of history. Hominids (us, our ancestors which walked on earth) Fossilized footprints, c 3. 5 million years b. p. Consider people historic from the historic eras by the written records. Art captures the emotions of people all over the world ex- rock shelters, france, spain, chauvet. 28 different tools for hunting or gathering. Can be dif cult to interpret, relationship to the object and the person. Not all objects have the same rate of survival.
