Prologue, Intro to Part One, & Ch. 1-(First Peoples) sections: Out of Africa & The Ways We Were

Ways of the World

Prologue-
            Historians have discovered the human journey. The human journey is a timescale of 13.7 billion years. Big history is a term that means "a story of the human journey in a larger framework of  cosmic and planetary history" (Strayer and Nelson, p. lvi). The universe began from eruption and produced matter, energy, gravity, electromagnetism, and strong/weak forces. The planet's history started from the appearance of the solar system. Human species consists of 5 phases, paleolithic, neolithic, ancient, classical, and modern. Change, Comparison, and Connection are the "big c's" of world history.
Intro to Part One-
           Over time, the human journey has changed. History has gone through many phases that consists of development of skills, traditions, etc. Different species developed creating population. Farming and herding was a new technology to 7.2 billion people of the world. The turning point of civilization happened thousands of years after agriculture. With time, history has developed to shape our world presently.
Chapter 1--

        Section 1: Out of Africa: First Migrations-
                Africa was where the first migration began. They then migrated into Eurasia, 45,000 years ago, where they learned hunting skills and developed tools to hunt with. They also learned how to weave, carve, etc. The next migration occurred into Australia, 60,000 years ago. In Australia, Australia's Aboriginal people were more modern than others. Dreamtime is the development of an elaborate and complex outlook on the world. The Americas first migration happened between 30,000 and 15,000 years ago. Clovis point is  the traditions in America with people who made a projectile point. The Pacific is the last phase of human migration.

        Section 2: The Ways We Were-
                  Paleolithic societies had societies consisting of their own history, culture, language, identity, stories, and rituals. The first humans in society were small, ranging from 25 to 50 people. They had relationships that were equal. Economy in the environment was a struggle for the paleolithic, it was by their own self.  Paleolithic had a religious part of their culture. They were monotheistic. The Paleolithic cultures and traditions changed. New environments developed, population grew, and different interactions with different humans occurred.