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firefly2094
firefly2094
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High School - 10th Grade

What would be Jared Dimond's definition of world history? Explain why?

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Posted by firefly2094 on Sunday August 2, 2009 at 9:16 PM and tagged with guns, germs, and steel, world history.

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  1. henock
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    High School - 12th Grade

    Jane Austen "Real, solemn history, I can not be interested in-the quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, hardly any women at all"

    Orleanna echoes Jane Austen in The Poisonwood Bible

    "Not the marriage proposal, the summit conquered, the fist shot fired, nor the last one either- the treaty at Appomattox, the knife in the heart. Let men write those stories. I can not....on the day the committee of men decided to murder the fledgling Congo what do you suppose mama Mwanza was doing? Was it different, the day after? Of course not. Was she a fool, then, or the backbone of a history?"

    We find the same observation in Will Durant only in abstract terms:

    "Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things the historians record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river."

    I have notstill read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. I think these observations on History may shed some light on the question. Did Diamond ignore the banks for the river?

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    Posted by henock on Sunday September 13, 2009 at 4:05 PM