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General History Lect
General History Lecture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| History | Who, what, somehow, taken on faith Systematic of world |
| Metaphysical | Can't touch it |
| Meta | Beyond |
| Homo sapiens | Human, thinking beings |
| Culture | Way of life |
| Civilization | How people live, berries, spears, etc. |
| Geopolitics | Most powerful at the moment is who has best resources |
| Savagery | What you do, not who you are, not appearance |
| Values | What one thinks is more important |
| First business | Agriculture (land work) |
| 97% | of the world wasn't literate until the French Revolution around 1790 |
| Why wasn't world over populated until 20th century? | 1/2 women/children died in child birth because of lack of antiseptic Exception being the Spartans because of religious reasons they bathed the womens womb in wine |
| Mesopotamia | Land between rivers |
| River Valley Civilizations | Euphrates and Tigris Nile Yellow and Yangtze Indus and Ganges |