WHAP - 2A - BIG HISTORY - Introduction to World History, Part I

What is History?
Link to the Google Docs Presentation: "Big History"

The study of the record of our past events to understand the impact of present day decisions and project successful future outcomes.

What is the study of history?
The study of history is flexible and ever changing. As new evidence comes to light, we will understand our past in a different and often more complex way.

Maya Creation Myth
An "A-MAIZE-ING" Story

Cherokee Creation Story/Myth
"Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice!"

Hebrew Creation Story/Myth
"Gifts from a Stranger: Should have stuck with apricots?"

"World historians are among the modern scholars who, like earlier tellers of creation stories, also seek to puzzle out the beginnings of the cosmos, of the earth, of life, and of humankind."
- Robert W. Strayer, "Ways of the World"
Prologue - "From Cosmic History to Human History page xli

"Big History" - framework is from the Big Bang to the present day and is sometimes called "The History of Everything." This spans 13.7 Billion years**, the rough estimate of the age of the universe, according to science.