HI121 Lecture 1: Mass History 121 Lectures 1-9

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When China ruled the seas
Patterns of World History Volume 1
Lecture 1
The word the world refers to the age of man, or heavens and mankind
The world images such as maps
World images are how we envision the world
We should see maps as historical and geographical contexts
Maps and what the world looks like has been influenced by western Europe
Maps + history
We divide the world in continents
Ancient Europeans made Europe on all their maps much larger to make them look
better
Mercator Projection:
Gerardus Mercator
His maps of the world were shown as the most accurate map
His map is a few random counties
His map was western centralized view of the world
All the geat iilizatios ae afte the th paallel ecept Europe
The 40 parallel is where the Mercator projection starts going off track
World map (1922):
The map is now split where Europe is off to the side and the Americas are the middle of
the world
This map shows who the map was made by because it makes the Americas seem so
much greater than they are
To understand the world, to understand history of the world we need to face the world
as it is
Histoias ae alas tig to da shap lies etee outies ad otiets...ut
why?
Because of language, religion and culture
People moved greatly throughout the world
Mogolia as ipotat ut fo hatee easo people dot stud thei histo ee
though they greatly influenced the world history
Every civilization viewed their country as the middle of the world
China literally means the centre of the kingdom aka the middle of the world
Muslims, Buddhist and other religions all made maps based off their religions and their
gods, so for example wherever their religion was formed was always the centre of the
world
Horizontal integration and vertical integration
It shows and helps people understand how to look at history
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Problems with doing horizontal integration: doest oe sigifiae, had to
patterns, different civilizations were developed at diffeet ties so ou at see
elatioships foed, at see he soethig stated o eded pefetl
Poles ith etial itegatio: had to deteie sigifiat eets ad hat ist.
Problem of periodization: BC and AD (anno domini)
Problems with periodization: vastly European approach, because of Christianity every
1000 years they expected something awesome to happen, but what happens with other
countries with different numbers?
Discovering patterns is what historians do
age of divergence and age of convergence, before year 1000 was dominated by
divergence and after the age of convergence
They developed their cultures and language systems in the age of divergence
But somewhere in the year 1000 this rise of empires, and people forming groups of
religion, language and common interests then it was the age of convergence
A thousad eas ago thee as , to , laguages i use, ut toda its ,-
7,000. Linguists expect more languages to die by the end of the 21st century
Studying world history is more than studying just the major events, or the interaction
between countries
DO NOT GENERALIZE (you miss stuff in between)
The bigger events are the outside of the cup but the stuff we really want to see is the
stuff inside
Learning about world history is honouring the people who have died
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Lecture 2: Humans, Origins, Evolution
Where we came from; evolution and human origins
Relate to early humans, as humans as the same as us
The night sky: Makes you think of how the big the universe really is and how much we
still dot ko aout eighouig plaets
Early humans spent a lot of time looking at the night sky
Fundamental questions: where are we, why are we here, why?
Hua osiousess oes i a stea, its eid to thik that our conscious can die
one day
Ma people dot eliee i life afte death, sie the egiig of hua iilizatio
and early religion, humans believe in life after death
At the very highest level of reality, there is a nice place where you can rest after you
have left the real world
Humans have constructed narratives of the world and how we came to be
They varieties over time and across culture
350 years they decided that the first day was:
Sunday October 23, 4004BC
We separated from apes 647 million years ago
Many religions never thought that the world is really that old and that humans really
lasted that long
Chistias eliee that a sigle god eated the old ad hua kid, plats ad
animals
In Hinduism: they believe that the world is only millions of years old not billions
The Buddhists saw the world as existing forever
The buddha told his followers that the world is just a spec of dust in this huge galaxy
“oe ultues didt eliee i a eato god
Daoist cosmology (Chinese religion didt eliee i a god, the eliee that the old
just started to exist (look at slide)
The tue a is oe ho has ee eoe sepaated fo the Geat Oeess
People were so shocked that humans came from apes (think of an uproar)
13.6 billion years ago is when the world became a planet
Aka the big bang!!!
Cells made up the first forms on earth
Chemical actions lead to cells
Asteroid that hit the golf of Mexico that whipped out 90% of all the dinosaurs
Human evolution was such a dangerous idea to have because of religion
crazy to think we came from monkeys
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