<p>In Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity, you’ll hear this ever-evolving story—the history of everything—in its monumental entirety from the moment the Universe grew from the size of an atom to the size of a galaxy in a fraction of a second.</p>
Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: What Is Big History?
- 02: Moving across Multiple Scales
- 03: Simplicity and Complexity
- 04: Evidence and the Nature of Science
- 05: Threshold 1-Origins of Big Bang Cosmology
- 06: How Did Everything Begin?
- 07: Threshold 2-The First Stars and Galaxies
- 08: Threshold 3-Making Chemical Elements
- 09: Threshold 4-The Earth and the Solar System
- 10: The Early Earth-A Short History
- 11: Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography
- 12: Threshold 5-Life
- 13: Darwin and Natural Selection
- 14: The Evidence for Natural Selection
- 15: The Origins of Life
- 16: Life on Earth-Single-celled Organisms
- 17: Life on Earth-Multi-celled Organisms
- 18: Hominines
- 19: Evidence on Hominine Evolution
- 20: Threshold 6-What Makes Humans Different?
- 21: Homo sapiens-The First Humans
- 22: Paleolithic Lifeways
- 23: Change in the Paleolithic Era
- 24: Threshold 7-Agriculture
- 25: The Origins of Agriculture
- 26: The First Agrarian Societies
- 27: Power and Its Origins
- 28: Early Power Structures
- 29: From Villages to Cities
- 30: Sumer-The First Agrarian Civilization
- 31: Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions
- 32: The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made
- 33: Long Trends-Expansion and State Power
- 34: Long Trends-Rates of Innovation
- 35: Long Trends-Disease and Malthusian Cycles
- 36: Comparing the World Zones
- 37: The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era
- 38: Threshold 8-The Modern Revolution
- 39: The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500-1350
- 40: The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700
- 41: Breakthrough-The Industrial Revolution
- 42: Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900
- 43: The 20th Century
- 44: The World That the Modern Revolution Made
- 45: Human History and the Biosphere
- 46: The Next 100 Years
- 47: The Next Millennium and the Remote Future
- 48: Big History-Humans in the Cosmos
Taught by
David Christian
