Exciting things about history and about World History is the way in which we discover how there are big patterns that in a sense rule our lives and big patterns that sometimes touch the life of an individual person or in which an individual person actually makes a big difference to the overall pattern and weve been reading a book Valerie Hansen voyages enrolled history, and we know from that book that theyre all kinds of big patterns and that its the job of students and professional historians to figure out what the big pattern is because in our lives so much of what happens is so complex and chaotic and quick that we can figure out. Whats the overall trajectory. So some of the patterns weve been looking at are things like the effect of the environment upon us. Whether its all the things that nature hurls at us whether its a hurricane or you know a flood or a famine or even tiny microbes that drastically affect people like ebola. Weve also looked at things that are like mechanical thin
Of students and professional historians to figure out what the big pattern is because in our lives so much of what happens is so complex and chaotic and quick that we can figure out. Whats the overall trajectory. So some of the patterns weve been looking at are things like the effect of the environment upon us. Whether its all the things that nature hurls at us whether its a hurricane or you know a flood or a famine or even tiny microbes that drastically affect people like ebola. Weve also looked at things that are like mechanical things or technological inventions, and those are also big patterns. So for example the ways in which farming the i know department doesnt seem like a technology but the ways in which farming and the plow and things like that replaced hunting and gathering and that replacement of hunting and gathering by farming led from the neolithic into the paleolithic. Wow, what bigger pattern could there be than that . And other technologies too that have really affected
Hansen voyages enrolled history, and we know from that book that theyre all kinds of big patterns and that its the job of students and professional historians to figure out what the big pattern is because in our lives so much of what happens is so complex and chaotic and quick that we can figure out. Whats the overall trajectory. So some of the patterns weve been looking at are things like the effect of the environment upon us. Whether its all the things that nature hurls at us whether its a hurricane or you know a flood or a famine or even tiny microbes that drastically affect people like ebola. Weve also looked at things that are like mechanical things or technological inventions, and those are also big patterns. So for example the ways in which farming the i know department doesnt seem like a technology but the ways in which farming and the plow and things like that replaced hunting and gathering and that replacement of hunting and gathering by farming led from the neolithic into th