1. Big History By Errol Farley Coming from a very broadened scope, I can see how any History lesson is never really complete. I'm sure I will come to find many more complete answers in this Chapter but if anything, Big History helps me realize that the chapter that is my life would never have happened if it weren't for great men doing great thing a long time ago.
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3. Developed during the Cold War at Harvard, Big History has been removing biases and shoots to teach students across the world in this humanitarian style . What is Big History?
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5. Coffee was spread by first worldwide dominant corporation – Dutch east India Trading Company.
6. Coffee has been used as a means of bringing people together for over 5,000 years.
11. Man has been making technological advances for the past millennium that have allowed for the radical expansion of the human population and the nearly complete takeover of our planet Earth.
12. We have defended our right to be curious and it has lead us to an astonishing mountain of answers.
13. Man has always felt the need to institutionalize it's 'rules' of life into culture in various ways and throughout all peoples.
14. Man has always just wanted to keep order among itself. Some one is always trying to be the top dog.
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16. "As often happens in science , technology has opened up a field to new ways of answering old questions—often providing startling answers." - Spencer Wells
17. He believes it is the San Bushmen that hold the genetic key to our past.
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19. Spencer Wells has made his predictions about humans genetic diversity very clear over the TED talks. His work is dedicated to finding the answers of our origins.
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21. Catastrophic event in 6 th century evident by malfunction in the chronicles of the trees rings.
22. It's possible that Krakatoa blew and the sun was blocked out a little bit from the cloud covering so it was just a dry hot couple of years on planet Earth.
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24. Jerry Diamond holds that Guns, Germs & Steel are the biggest factors in human history and is quite content in knowing his studies are important.
25. Before assaults with these means ensued, people lived very simply. Hunting and gathering was the way of life. People lived in close packs and used skill, grace, memory and effort to stay alive.
26. People started off slow but once guns,germs and steel came into the picture everything picked up pretty quick and has had exponential growth since.
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28. Most domestic animals came from North Africa, Europe and Asia. All other continents had poor large animal supply. All the best plants and animals came from the Middle East. It was dubbed 'The Fertile Crest.
29. Many peoples couldn't develop technologies to get them ahead because they were too caught up with trying to get food and eat.
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31. It felt like the presentation of the idea of Columbus discovering America was glorified to every degree with the video and it's effects.
32. The bias of this history they're trying to teach me is questionable and slightly obvious.
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34. The Indians and their horses stood in the Americans way of being a true boring cowboy. It wasn't until the white man stripped the Indians of their resources that the white man was able to fully conquer this continent.
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