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

(John Hannent) #1

Bentley and Ziegler, Traditions and Encounters, chaps. 6, 21.


Christian, Maps of Time, chap. 10.


Diamond, Collapse


———, Guns, Germs, and Steel.


Bellwood, The Polynesians.


Flood, Archaeology of the Dreamtime.


Mann, 1491.



  1. What were the most important geographical differences between the
    four major world zones?

  2. How did geographical differences shape the histories of the four major
    world zones?


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