HIST103- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 66 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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500 bce (before common era) = 2500 bp (before present) = 2. 5kya (thousand years ago) = 100gn (generations ago) G. f. hegel (1770-1831) history is a story of progress; got the ball rolling for professional, academic history. Karl marx (1818- ) studies hagel, but says this progress is not uniform. There will be dark times, but at the end of those times progress will continue. Charles darwin (1809-1882) christian; studies human beings, apes, mammals, birds, etc. and their history of life on earth; history is a story of change and evolution. Search for terra australis- left the netherlands and sailed. Believed there was a huge continent in the south pacific (terra australis) Found a remote island - easter island - People who lived there didn"t have much technology or organization. Understood the mind and the human body to be a test kit that moved through the environment. Pleasure allowed you to avoid bodily pain and mental anguish: history of easter island.
