ACCT 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Major Religious Groups, Microsoft Powerpoint, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four
4 Jul 2020
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Global history is an example of meta history (history writing that moves to something in the future, there is an overall logic). Look at the question on the powerpoint for a summary of every chapter: form: meta-history, meta narrative, pattern: human webs" shaped history, motors of change: webs combined competition and cooperation, within and between webs, causing societal progress. The human web (disciption by mcneills) - as set of connections that link people to one another. ". Internal external dynamics: comparative advantage, organisational features, communications. Song, dance, art creating a sense of community. Domestication of plants and animals: emergence of agriculture (this happened at several places at the same time, the first world web. Opportunity: settlement, organisation, solidarity, population growth, artefacts (seasons, weather patterns), astronomy. Risks: disease more people and animals closer together, war with others/nomads, metropolitan web. Lots of settlements in eurasia and africa: nile-indus corridor, east-asia, china.
