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I. Pre-reading Assignment 1. Big History is a course that tells about the 13.8 billion year during history. Big History interrelates professional thinking about the universe into a coherent story and looks at the entire span of history at different scales, up to the greatest scale. It is told chronologically using disciplinary tools. It’s a modern, scientific version of an origin story. It is a way to look at our history and understand human's place in the world that incorporates all of time.…

still debate as to how our species first appeared, prompting several hypotheses to emerge. From the numerous of hypotheses, two emerge as the most genuine: the multiregional model stating that humans evolved gradually in many regions of the Afro-Eurasian landmass and the out-of-Africa hypothesis saying humans are genetically similar to a few ancestors who…

After the Mongols conquest in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries a vast empire emerged that bought stability to the Eurasian trade. Europe experienced great harvest during the thirteenth century but was later met by disastrous events. The great plague also known as The Black Death is said to have originated in Asia and spread throughout Europe with the facilitated long-distance trade that the Mongols brought under a single rule. This disease was carried by flea-infested rats which would…

people when it covered the town of Herculaneum on August 24th, and killed 2,000 residents of Pompeii the next day. Mount Vesuvius located in Naples, Italy is part of the Campanian Arc of volcanoes along a subduction zone created by the African and Eurasian plates. It runs the length of the Italian peninsula along with Mount Etna and Stromboli. The subduction plate under Mount Vesuvius has a part that has torn away. Rocks are a bit chemically different in this volcano because of this tear. They…

1.0 Introduction to EpiCentre Asia Pte Ltd Established in 2002, EpiCentre Asia Pte Ltd is the first Apple premium reseller in the region. Its products and services includes the sale of Apple peripherals, its accessories, product training, technical advice and help for its customers. EpiCentre currently has 5 stores (previously 11) operating in Singapore. (Epicentre Pte Ltd, n.d.) Founded in 1819 initially as a British colony by Sir Stamford Raffles, Singapore is located in the south east Asia.…

It has been said that the Woman of Wiendorf may haave of been that of a lot things, such as a object of beauty or a hunter-gatherer in structure because of the woman’s ability to reproduce. The look of the Woman of Wiendorf has been said to resemble what woman from Prehistoric time might have appeared. While on the other hand it has been suggested through time that man may have carved this as a symbol of what the idea woman may have looked. This structure of this piece gives me the idea of…

Ash and Pumice, the Story of Pompeii Angela R. Davis Fresno Pacific University PHYS-151-XON10 Geology and Planet Earth September 24, 2015 Ash and Pumice, the Story of Pompeii Pompeii is a city arrested by time; it is beautifully situated on the Italian seaside with the Somma-Vesuvio complex dominating the skyline. Its ancient narrative is told in ash, pumice, and petrified masks of humanity. Mount Vesuvius is well known for its violent past as attested by the hundreds of…

Japan was facing and their obsession with western cultural influence and customs. The story is introduced by the narrator who is a middle-aged engineer, Joji, and his obsession over a waitress who is half his age, Naomi. He was captivated by her ‘Eurasian” looks (or western features) and even compared her to resembling Mary Pickford, an American actress. Overall, he described her as having a western face and body as well as her name, Naomi, sounding more western compared to that of Japanese.…

Women’s rights in the United States has always been a controversial issue since its origins. Until the 1920’s, women were not granted the right to vote, and since then a new form of feminism has taken over leading into the the modern-day. Now, many citizens in America claim women have more freedom than they did prior. Yet in Envisioning Women in World History, the authors disagree, stating women 's freedoms and rights have declined due to patriarchies. These patriarchies and the subordination…

structure of the homo floreisienis and other hominins. They found that “[t]he neurocranial shape of H. floresiensis closely resembles that of H. erectus s.l.” (6) Out of all the homo erectus the neurocranial shape closely represents that of the early Eurasian group. However, scientists are unsure if the resemblance is due to “a close phylogenetic relationship or to a size-related convergence in…