This document summarizes several works about big history and human migration patterns. It discusses how big history uses science to provide a comprehensive view of history from the Big Bang to present. It also summarizes works that discuss early humans migrating out of Africa around 60,000 years ago based on DNA evidence, and how studies of genetics and geography have provided insights into human migration and the development of differences in human populations over time.

1. Big History By: Larissa Renwick History 140 Online #71183 Theme 1: Big History

3. Big history uses many forms of science to bring to light the many different elements that play a role in history including: astronomy, biology, & geology. This gives us a macro view of the events that have taken place and allows us to see which elements played which part.

5. Chromosomes mutate over time leaving clues about the history of man’s origination and migration patterns.

7. Europe was not populated with human life till after the migration from Africa to India and Australia. It took humans another 10,000 years.

8. Although humans migrated from Africa, Wells explains that our skin became lighter and lighter because of migration into the Northern Hemisphere.

9. Studies show that humans migrated through Eurasia during the Ice Age.

11. He visits the rationality of the Greeks throughout history. He explains how each person defended their version of truth and protected it with ritualism.

12. Egyptians discover geometry which led to painting architecture and mapping.

14. Catastrophes are events that change the course our lives

15. Keys studied environmental catastrophes with many other scientists such as: historians, climatologist, physicists, astronomers, and more.

16. Keys studied many different varieties of environmental catastrophes to understand how it shaped our world geographically as well as the roles that the catastrophes played amongst cultures.

17. Keys states that the melting of the ice caps can create climate changes, volcanic eruptions, and other disasters that would change the world as we know it.

19. The Professor’s goal was to discover why there is so much inequality in the world and what caused it.

20. The Professor suggests that geology has a lot to do with the advance in societies versus other societies.

21. He studied the ability of humans to store food, livestock and weapons.

23. Animal domestication started around 9,000 years ago which helped people with farming, hunting and other crucial tasks of survival.

25. Traveling led societies to trade – some items for trade were as currency. EX: Spices & Caffeine.

26. Travelling led to the discovery of new skills

28. Tobacco and other drugs became popular for religious and recreational use. The most popular drug was cocoa.

29. In the 14thcentury China was the most powerful empire in the world.

30. Old World and New World trade increased creating globalization.