HIST 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chinese Ceramics, Environmental History, Dhow
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Hist 170 world history: agricultural revolution to 1500 ce. What will we do: looking at multiple different perspectives of the same time, not one big book of all knowledge . Main focus: environmental history, the interactions of humans and nature, economic history, arabian dhow filled to the brim with ceramics. T"ang era shipwreck: large market for chinese ceramics in the arabian peninsula. History is made by the questions we ask and how we answer them: a methodology is a way of asking and answering questions, we"re looking at cross-cultural connections using different methodologies, including big. History, cultural history, environmental history, and economic history. Goals of this course: understand the ways historians make claims, use evidence, and construct evidence, understand basic concepts and representative examples of world history. Summarize historical arguments: analyze primary and secondary sources as historians, construct a historical argument using primary and secondary sources.
