Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

depict enemies slaughtered in war. Olmec and Oaxacan civilizations created many durable features of Mesoamerican civilizations. ...

Lecture 37: The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era increasing warfare triggered by overpopulation (the heartland, near Tikal, ma ...

different regions of Afro-Eurasia through the silk roads. One reason was that, with few animal domesticates, transportation syst ...

Lecture 37: The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era Bentley and Ziegler, Traditions and Encounters, chaps. 6, 21. Christian, Maps ...

Threshold 8—The Modern Revolution............................................ LECTURE Then, things seemed to suddenly go very st ...

Lecture 38: Threshold 8—The Modern Revolution What are the most distinctive features of the Modern era? Above all, modern human ...

the Modern Revolution to transform the entire world. Innovation increased human control over the energy and resources of the bio ...

Lecture 38: Threshold 8—The Modern Revolution historians have discussed the main drivers of innovation at least since the public ...

This lecture has described some major features of the Modern Revolution and described the strategy we will use in the next three ...

Lecture 39: The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350 The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350.................................... ...

The medieval Malthusian cycle ran from about 500 C.E. to 1350 C.E. Population graphs show the overall shape of the cycle, as pop ...

Lecture 39: The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350 where powerful small trading states À ourished. Some, such as Venice, were r ...

Innovation slowed partly because reunited Chinese governments had less need to support commerce, and partly because the world wa ...

Lecture 39: The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350 What were the most important changes during the medieval Malthusian cycle? ...

The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700 ............................................. LECTURE The ¿ rst and most spectacular change pr ...

Lecture 40: The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700 expanded, it sucked in silver for coinage. This bene¿ ted European middlemen who u ...

Yet, despite these changes, there was no sharp acceleration in global rates of innovation. There were signi¿ cant improvements i ...

Lecture 40: The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700 of traditional social structures may help explain why, on a global scale, innovati ...

Breakthrough—The Industrial Revolution....................................... LECTURE Now, something also happens to the nature ...

Lecture 41: Breakthrough—The Industrial Revolution mid-19th century. By 1860, each region produced about 28% of global gross dom ...