WORLD HISTORY

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2011

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 WORLD HISTORY

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WORLD HISTORY

Introduction

What is civilization?

Floodplain Civilizations:
Mesopotamia

Egypt

South/East Asia

Buddhism
Classical Civilizations:

Islam
China

Islam and South West Asian Culture

India

Africa and the Great Kingdoms

Mediterranean Basin Part 1

Byzantines and Slavs

Mediterranean Basin Part 2

Feudal Western Europe Part 1

Mediterranean Basin Part 3

Feudal Western Europe Part 2

Mediterranean Basin Part 4

Early Christianity

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 Introduction

chapter 1
Contents: The concept of time Farming

Era Cultural Development

AD/BC

CE/BCE

Neolithic Revolution
Chapter One: Introduction

Good day! I’m Professor Higginbotham, and welcome to world history.

To begin, I want to take a look at something you might find shocking. A simple
fact when studying history, you need to understand –time. Yes! Time! Since
history’s essentially the study of change over time, it’s easy for us to see the
connection and understand why time is so important. Here, let me show you
what I mean.

If we start by discussing dating systems, we can see how time is

important, since being able to date certain events is critical to the construction
and understanding of history. Now, for a very long time, people in the western
parts of the world dated historical events according to the Gregorian Christian
calendar created by Pope Gregory the thirteenth in the sixteenth century.
According to the Gregorian calendar, dates were divided into two categories:
B.C., which stands for before Christ, that means before the birth of Jesus of
Nazareth; and A.D., which stands for anno Domini, which is Latin for, in the
year of the Lord, meaning the year that Christians believe Jesus of Nazareth
was born. It was marked this way because the birth of Jesus was a major
historical turning point for Christians. Now, according to the Gregorian
calendar, Jesus of Nazareth’s birth took place in the year A.D. one. So, all the
years prior to A.D. one were marked by the suffix B.C. These years started large
and grew smaller as time progressed. For example, Julius Caesar was born in
one hundred B.C. and died in forty-four B.C. The years after the birth of Jesus,
however, start small, and grow larger; for example, Nero was born in A.D.
thirty-seven and died in A.D. sixty-eight. But, here comes the twist. In recent
years, world historians have switched to a more secular or non-religious dating
system, a dating system that allows for all the people of the world to be included
in history. This dating system is defined by the concept of the Common Era. For
this World History Course, we’ll be using this system to date events. So, how
exactly does this dating system work? Well, let’s take a look.

The Common Era dating system follows the dates of the Gregorian
calendar. However, B.C. is replaced by B.C.E., which stands for before the
Common Era. And A.D. is replaced by C.E., which stands for the Common Era.

Here are a few things to keep in mind when taking a look at history and
– that’s right – time.
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