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Big History
Big History is academic discipline (begun in the 1990's) which examines history from the Big Bang to the present. It examines extremely long time frames using a multidisciplinary approach combining numerous disciplines from science (physics, chemistry, biology, physiology, archaeology, forensics) and the humanities, and explores history and the universe from the context of this bigger perspective.
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Changes in human knowledge causes changes in technology and through the effect that technology has on the social and cultural systems of a society, the change in human knowledge will affect all elements in that society. Changes in human knowledge may also directly affect the social and cultural systems in human society. Ideas such as biological evolution and cultural relativity have affected human society, without producing any technological innovations. Human history in all its elements will be
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Ever increasing human knowledge is the ultimate cause of the development of human societies from hunter gathering to agrarian to industrial societies. However as human societies change from one form to another, there are substantial changes in the social and cultural institutions of those societies. The different types of societies tend to develop with different population structures, class systems, belief systems, government and legal systems, and different types of economies. The changes to th
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