VIDEO SEGMENT: What is World History?
What tools do world historians use in the study of history? This unit begins the study of world history by examining its use of geographical and chronological frameworks: how they have shaped the understanding of world history and have been used to chart the past.
I thought this was very interesting. The different ways cultures broke down history and represented the different time frames - the Chinese using the different dynasties and the Native Americans using significant events and symboles of things that happened in a certain year to represent said year - was interesting to learn about. And the way different cultures at first scaled and designed maps to show them as the "center of the world" was really cool to see. I honestly didn't know what I was looking at when they showed the Korean map until the narrator said the giant blob-like mass was China/India.
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