[HIST 122] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (177 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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Scale- thinking about long periods of time & great expanses of land and ocean. Sequence + connections- importance of the order of events & interdependence between societies and their settings. Our environmental crisis past 10000 years jumanity enjoyed stable climate system. Varied less than 1 degree all that is changing fast un scientists expect temps to rise more than 2 degrees huricanne sandy in 2012. 20-30% of plant and animal species faced with extinction. 100"s of millions people will face water shortages melting glaciers will flood over 1 billion homes. Human agency how human actions & decisions have created todays conditions and how individuals & groups can change the world for the better of all societies and for all living things. We are the most critical generation in the past 10 000 years. Hist 122 making of the modern world. What does world history involve big planet wide questions out of the box history. Big history deep time of cosmos.
