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INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY

INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY. Development of Civilization: Stages of human development: As we came together for survival. Nomadic Hunters - Gatherers Farmers and Herders Civilizations. What makes a civilization? Creation of urban centers large permanent buildings close interaction

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INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY

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  1. INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY

  2. Development of Civilization: • Stages of human development: As we came together for survival. • Nomadic Hunters - Gatherers • Farmers and Herders • Civilizations

  3. What makes a civilization? • Creation of urban centers • large permanent buildings • close interaction • wide distribution of jobs • institutional politics • rules for everyone • taxes to run the state

  4. Creation of class system • pyramid--few on top, lots on the bottom • Creation of Specialized sciences and arts • produce more, with a larger surplus of food and goods

  5. Creation of written language • Movement from equality to inequality • Rich get richer, poor get poorer

  6. Universal Cultural Pattern: needs common to all peoples • The need to survive or make a living: provide for survival. • The need for law and order: keep order within their own communities, protect community assets. • The need for social organization: social structure and hierarchy within the community.

  7. The need for knowledge and learning: • The need for artistic self-expression: People need to express themselves creatively. • The need for religious expression: All people need to understand their existences, the natural world around them, and especially death.

  8. Seven View points on why History happened: • History seeks to explain not just what happened by why it happened when it did. • Divine will • Role of gods, god, or deities. • The role of the individual • 18th century actions of key individuals at key moments in time that created history. • Forces and laws • Scientific laws • Group action • Not one person but a group of people

  9. Economic forces • Finances or money governed the action of human beings • Civilizations grew like biological organisms • spring, summer, fall and winter. • Everything has its time. • Survival of the fittest/ Social Darwinism • The strong survive and the weak fail.

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