1.
What Is Big History?
2.
Moving Across Multiple Scales
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Simplicity and Complexity
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Evidence and the Nature of Science
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Threshold 1 — Origins of Big Bang Cosmology
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How Did Everything Begin?
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Threshold 2 — The First Stars and Galaxies
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Threshold 3 — Making Chemical Elements
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Threshold 4 — The Earth and the Solar System
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The Early Earth — a Short History
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Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography
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Threshold 5 — Life
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Darwin and Natural Selection
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The Evidence for Natural Selection
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The Origins of Life
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Life on Earth — Single-Celled Organisms
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Life on Earth — Multi-Celled Organisms
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Hominines
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Evidence on Hominine Evolution
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Threshold 6 — What Makes Humans Different?
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Homo Sapiens — The First Humans
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Paleolithic Lifeways
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Change in the Paleolithic Era
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Threshold 7 — Agriculture
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The Origins of Agriculture
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The First Agrarian Societies
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Power and Its Origins
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Early Power Structures
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From Villages to Cities
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Sumer — The First Agrarian Civilization
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Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions
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The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made
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Long Trends — Expansion and State Power
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Long Trends — Rates of Innovation
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Long Trends — Disease and Malthusian Cycles
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Comparing the World Zones
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The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era
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Threshold 8 — The Modern Revolution
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The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350
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The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700
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Breakthrough — The Industrial Revolution
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Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900
43.
The 20th Century
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The World That the Modern Revolution Made
45.
Human History and the Biosphere
46.
The Next 100 Years
47.
The Next Millennium and the Remote Future
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Big History — Humans in the Cosmos