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World History
World history, global history or transnational history (not to be confused with diplomatic or international history) is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective. It is not to be confused with comparative history, which, like world history, deals with the history of multiple cultures and nations, but does not do so on a global scale.
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The world doesn't have history,
what we have is whitewashed history.
The world doesn't have progress,
what we have is westwashed progress.
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― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
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We are hardly the first victims of perfidious Soviet policy, which has, already several times in history, placed the interests of power of the Greater Russian Empire— which is probably the most suitable name for the true essence of the complicated little internal Soviet unions— above all the interests of proletarian internationalism. What was the annexation of the Baltic peoples, the Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians? To this day, he hatred these nations feel for the Russians is so great that
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― Invasion 68: Prague
― Invasion 68: Prague
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