HUMA 1770 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bantu Expansion, Moai, Bantu Languages
31 Oct 2016
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Record of past events, & past actions & events that shape present. Record of past events is however incomplete. History is not static, changes depending who tells story. Described as a human venture, involving chance, risk & danger. Style of human life rooted in city & political units, material & cultural forms. Cities and larger states, centralized and bureaucratic governments, classes and castes, Growth of trade, writing and sophisticated arts and sciences, religions and philosophies. The integration of large numbers of people into a single system of administration and law (cid:862)ci(cid:448)ilizatio(cid:374)(cid:863) is ofte(cid:374) a(cid:374)other (cid:449)ord for (cid:862)e(cid:373)pire(cid:863) Movement of flow of people, capital, idea, technology & media. Across borders in different geographical regions, integration, interdependence. Silk roads, exchange of historical, environmental, technological, cultural, political , economical. Interactions & mixings of the people, capital, ideas, technology, and media. As ideology: a shared set of beliefs and values that bind a particular group of people together.
