Chapter 1 Readings

I just finished reading the assigned homework for this weekend and found it to be a good review of what we covered in class as well as from previous History courses I've taken. Topics that stuck out to me were that no matter what event it is in History it has importance. I had never thought of History that way because I have never had much of an interest in it. However through this reading I became more conscious to the fact that our human history while short has such an unbelievable existence. Another thing that stuck with me were the percentages around the Paleolithic Era. Human's time on the planet have been spent in the Paleolithic Era for 95%, however that time is only represented by 12% of the Human population. One last thing that stuck with me was form the section Why World History? It talked about how no matter what problems we face as humans whether economical, social, or environmental they don't just affect us personally they leave an ever lasting affect on our History and leave a footprint on the Global structure as well.

Some of Chapter 1 I found myself getting distracted while reading, especially during the final few pages. I'll have to go back and reread the final pages but overall I like the way that the Author writes because it is not like many other History textbooks.

Also my textbook has not arrived in the mail and I was getting a little nervous because the readings were due Wednesday. I googled the book and it showed up in Google Books! If anyone doesn't have their textbook for this class or possibly another class that's another way to try and see if you can get it quick.

:)
-Rachel O