Big HistoryBIG HISTORYViolet Yamashiro

The Day the Universe Changed

• “We are what we know” meaning we shape our way of life on the knowledge available to us.

• Questioning has lead to our exponential improvement of knowledge.

• With new knowledge comes new interpretations, some old ways of thinking are protected, while others are disregarded.

The Day the Universe Changed

• Throughout history, inventions and theorems continue our advancement through modification to lifestyle. This creates a compounding ripple effect as we expand on the changes to our daily life.

The Journey of Man

• The origin of man has been explained in every culture through mythos

• Science is the current day version to relate mankind’s beginning

• Resourcefulness and adaptation over time is essential to human survival in all climates

The Journey of Man

•The movement and innovation of a single group can begin the evolution of an entire race and new way of life.

Catastrophe!

• History always leaves traces of evidence.• Disasters both end and begin a new era.• Environment has a profound effect on the

development of a population and their way of life.

•The events in nature have far reaching impacts. A cataclysmic event can led to a change in environment, which can lead on to a surge of new disease, further changing the world through population reduction. •These changes move on throughout time in a massive scale ripple effect.

Guns, Germs, and Steel• The resourcefulness and ability to adapt once again

preserves the human race as technology builds. In the middle east, agriculture is this first breakthrough because of that areas fertility.

• The resources available have a lot to do with the development of a culture.

• Where crops are sustainable, population grows and continues to prosper if it can be governed properly.

• The advantages carry over when conquering new lands.

• The domino effect of agriculture, domestication of animals, and growing technology begins with something as simple and random as the availability of productive land. It is geographic luck, which can lead to the building of entire civilizations.

The World and Trade• The pursuit of spices, raw

materials, and all that is exotic lead to the exploration of the world by Columbus and others.

• Different plants are exchanged and open new trade routes.

• Through trade, different ideas and technology are spread and adapted to suit the needs of a culture, constantly changing.

• Taxation arose from the demand of substances, showing that where there is supply and demand, there is profit and means to build an empire.

• As empires prosper, they look to extend. Imperialism exploits lands and people to continue the rise of money and goods.

• Slavery of a people is used as means to cultivate.• As a nation expands, so must they collapse, creating new

nation states through revolt.