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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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all societies have certain needs or desires and they meet these needs by utilizing the resources in their environments. The ability to utilize those resources changes as their knowledge of their environment changes. In particular they develop knowledge of the properties of the resources in their environment and how the resources in their environment can be used to meet human needs and desires. Human knowledge of the resources is dynamic; it changes over time. Greater knowledge of the properties
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― How Change Happens: A Theory of Philosophy of History, Social Change and Cultural Evolution
― How Change Happens: A Theory of Philosophy of History, Social Change and Cultural Evolution
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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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