WW Prologue, Intro to Part One, AND… Chapter 1 (First Peoples), Sections: Out of Africa & The Ways We Were.

WW Prologue, Intro to Part One, AND… Chapter 1 (First Peoples), Sections: Out of Africa & The Ways We Were. 

 The prologue was interesting to read about. I thought it was pretty cool when they said "historical accounts take place within some larger context, as stories within stories unfold". I didn't know that nations often find a place in some more encompassing civilization such as the Islamic world of the west or in a regional or continental context such as Southwest Asia, Latin America, or Africa. And those civilizations are regional histories in turn take on richer meaning when they are understood within the even broader story of world history, which embraces humankind as a whole. I also thought it was interesting when they talked about how recent decades world historians have begun to situate that remarkable story of the human journey in the much larger framework of both cosmic and planetary history, an approach that has come to be called "Big History". They called it the "History of everything" from the Big Bang to the present.  It coverS a timescale of 13.7 billion years an estate age of the universe. 

 In the intro of part one it talked about historians and their stories. Also nations of world history. Charles Darwin was a viewer of biological change on the planet. I thought it was interesting how according to archeologist and anthropologists the evolutionary line of decent leading Homo sapiens diverged that leading to chimpanzees, which is our closest primate relatives, which is crazy, some 5 million to 6 million years ago and it happened eastern and Southern Africa. This chapter was very interesting to me because I got to read about history I didn't know about and much more. 

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