HIST 122- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)
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Hist 122: week 1 lecture notes (sept 13, 2017) Every part of the world is connected, that"s why we study world history: nearly all events affect the world as a whole. Major events and processes: agricultural revolution, urban revolution, axial age, mongol world system, silver trade, columbian exchange, renaissance, crusades, colonialism, global revolutions, plantations. Major themes: change, production, trade, religion, war, discovery and navigation, knowledge and enlightenment, differences and discrimination. Course subject overview: human evolution, hydraulic civilization (role of water, mesopotamia, indus valley, egypt, etc, the axial age, classical persia, qin and han, greece and rome, maurya and gupta, etc, connecting the world. Hist 122: week 2 lecture notes (sept 20, 2017) Becoming human : how we study the past, from beginnings, quest of a historian, garden of eden. Sets clock to zero , varies with each culture: deluge (things go bad, noah"s ark, destruction of tower of babel, evolution, agriculture and domestication.
