HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Pieter Geyl, Neanderthal, Anthropocene
13 Nov 2020
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Investigation for evidence: sources: are a lifeline and what you need to prove your point, discovery: or archives/people/ for information, reconstruction, chronology and causality, discussion, debate, what is left out is interesting as well. Historicism: each period of history has its own unique beliefs and values and has to be understood only in its own historical context, e. g. looking at slave trade from the point of human rights. Global history: about how civilisations interact and grow through that, no other sciences (e. g. natural sciences) included, e. g. diseases breaking out due to encounters between civilisations, start of globalisation, 1492: discovery of america, 19th century: imperialism. 3-8: different webs of mankind that developed through interaction, different levels of web and increasing speed through technology, what is a web: connections and links. 1: web: set of connections between people, perception of the world by people increased through the exchange of communication.
