- Big History aims to understand history as a whole by looking for common themes across time from the Big Bang to modern times using a multidisciplinary approach. - The development of agriculture around 11,500 years ago allowed human populations to expand and civilizations to form with advanced technologies and large organized workforces. - Geographic differences between continents influenced the uneven development of societies, with Eurasia developing key technologies like guns, steel, and horses before other regions due to its ecology.

1. How Big is “big History”?HIST 140Summer 2011By: Le Thi My Ho

2. What is “Big History?”The desire to go beyond the specialized and self-contained fields that emerged in the 20th century during the Cold War and Space Race, and grasp history as a whole, looking for common themes across the entire time scale of history, from the Big Bang to modernityUses a multi-disciplinary approach from the latest findings, such as biology, astronomy, geology, climatology, prehistory, archaeology, anthropology, cosmology, natural history, andpopulation and environmental studies

3. The Day the Universe Changed Change Happens Everyday, EverywhereThe knowledge of the universe comes from the past, from different time with different problems but still affecting us

4. We try to take the universe apart, we are curious, to ask questions and to change what we don’t like The things we do are based on what we know and the reason we are different today is because what we know is differentIf WE ARE WHAT WE KNOW then we will pass it on to the next generation and we ask them to answer questions even though it has already been answered and to test that, we give them test to reassure ourselves to make sure the knowledge and answer hasn’t failed us.Base on the change we invent modern technologyand scienceHow our modern world is made up of answers and we hold on to it and influencing the way we areEvery culture, tribe, nation, group, ideology, country have this: a defense boundary, where we keep our secret and we defend that idea to death to keep it aliveWhy are we so attached to what and who we are – is it for freedom, life, liberty and/or pursuit of happiness?The Journey of Man through the eyes of Scientist, Dr. Spencer WellsMankind has been searching for order, settlement, for peace and law, inrestlessness, a quest for new resources, more hospitable climates, basically desire for possession since the beginning of timeIt is these desires that drove the 1st man out of Africa ~60,000 years ago and across the world, and they continue to drive their ancestors to this day, genetically proven by scientistAll the cultures of all the races of the world have been the creations of prolonged periods of migration - an important part of enlarging existing empires and conquering new onesWhen new empires were formed, it created new opportunities; different people, cultures, languages come together and new ones emerged; knowledge was exchanged; technology was shared

5. Dr.SpencerWellsfound the missing puzzle that connects us to as one, under the same African skin; as brothers and sisters; separated by 2000 generations From these 4 regions, the key were found in 4 DNAs:Arizona – Navajo IndianRussians Far East – Chukchi Reindeer HerderCrossroads Central Asia – Mixture of Mongolian, Caucasian, Black FeaturesAustralia - Australian AboriginesThe journey our ancestors started years ago is complete

6. Catastrophe - What violently changed our world to uncover the secrets of the dead?Nature becomes the enemy of all humanity-everything changed

7. Current research indicates worldwide changes to the environment around early to mid 6th century

8. The domino effect would have changed civilizations forever

9. The pyroclastic cloud caused an ice age and set the world into the dark ages

10. Speculation of the eruption of the Krakatau volcano could have been the cause of the major change throughout the world

11. Sun grew dark, clouds dusted the earth, rained, cold reaped the land for 2 yrs then it dried, famine, disease effected the entire world and course of human history