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What Is Big History?
Lecture no. 1 from the course: Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity
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Taught by Professor David Christian | 32 min | Categories: History
Is it possible to tell a story of everything, from the big bang up to the present day? This lecture introduces the background and unique aspects of this broad, multidisciplinary perspective on history....
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What Is Big History?
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Moving across Multiple Scales
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Simplicity and Complexity
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Evidence and the Nature of Science
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Threshold 1-Origins of Big Bang Cosmology
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How Did Everything Begin?
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Threshold 2-The First Stars and Galaxies
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Threshold 3-Making Chemical Elements
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Threshold 4-The Earth and the Solar System
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The Early Earth-A Short History
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Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography
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Threshold 5-Life
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Darwin and Natural Selection
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The Evidence for Natural Selection
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The Origins of Life
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Life on Earth-Single-celled Organisms
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Life on Earth-Multi-celled Organisms
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Hominines
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Evidence on Hominine Evolution
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Threshold 6-What Makes Humans Different?
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Homo sapiens-The First Humans
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Paleolithic Lifeways
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Change in the Paleolithic Era
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Threshold 7-Agriculture
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The Origins of Agriculture
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The First Agrarian Societies
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Power and Its Origins
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Early Power Structures
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From Villages to Cities
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Sumer-The First Agrarian Civilization
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Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions
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The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made
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Long Trends-Expansion and State Power
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Long Trends-Rates of Innovation
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Long Trends-Disease and Malthusian Cycles
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Comparing the World Zones
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The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era
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Threshold 8-The Modern Revolution
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The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500-1350
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The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700
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Breakthrough-The Industrial Revolution
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Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900
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The 20th Century
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The World That the Modern Revolution Made
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Human History and the Biosphere
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The Next 100 Years
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The Next Millennium and the Remote Future
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Big History-Humans in the Cosmos
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