Tag: World Civilization
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20 – The Rest of the World
by ProfDave, ©2022 (May 26, 2022) — [Editor’s Note: The following is the 20th in a series of world history lessons, converted to written form, by Prof. David Heughins. For previous articles in this series, please go here.] Time out! We are a month into our survey of modern World Civilization and we’ve hardly got…
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14. The Globalization of Europe
by ProfDave, ©2022 (May 3, 2022) — Good Morning, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the New World! This week you read about “the creation of a world market.” Talk about spending your day at the Smithsonian in the gift shop! But I’m not sure I can do better. This is a World civilization course, and…
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Three Thousand Years Ago
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Mar. 3, 2022) — Welcome to the history of World Civilization! Are you civilized yet? So what were things like three thousand years ago and what do you need to know about it? First, just a little bit of humility: history was already half over! Second, more humility: we do not know…
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The Soul of a Civilization
“THE MEANING OF LIFE” by ProfDave, ©2020 (Oct. 10, 2020) — Teaching world civilization forces me to think about questions too deep for mere historians. We are supposed to limit ourselves to documents and not to mix our religious biases into the story. Since Thucydides, we are supposed to leave the gods and goddesses out…