Reading Blog Post #1

The analogy the book used of World history books to Russian nesting dolls was very interesting. The book says that all historical accounts are in some larger context, as a story inside of a story unfold, just like a Russian nesting doll. The book in the prologue emphasizes the word connections. It talks about how distant peoples have connections throughout history. Often history repeats itself so connections can be made both across the globe and across time.
It is interesting that Africa has not had a lot of archeological research yet the world believes it to be the origin of humans. Also it is interesting that time and climate have erased much of the record of these early people. It would be fascinating if archaeologists had more evidence on what the early people would have been like. Also intriguing is one of the things that separates humans from earlier species is the fact that they hunted instead of just scavenged. What is mind blowing is how fast humans have evolved in relation to the time span of the universe. The universe is believed to be about 13.7 billion years, and in about 250,000 years humans have gone from lone nomads, to paleolithic societies, to the modern societies seen today. Interesting is the fact that todays societies work to keep people free, yet people were never freer than in Paleolithic times.  Sometimes by looking back at the past, problems of today can be fixed. The book notes that people typically lived no longer than thirty-five years of age which is kind of scary actually. Overall the past is very interesting in learning how in just a short amount of time people can change so dramatically.