historians need evidence to conclude the past, but there is a massive amount of evidence available to everyone about any given topic. This brings up how we decide what is considered valuable evidence and what is not. As a topic in class, we have talked about human sacrifices that the…

To answer this question I personally believe that Covid is not an example of history repeating itself. In class, we studied how the Black Death plague of 1346 affected the people who were caught in areas that were infected with the plague and how life changed for those people. In…

Premodern history is a topic that I believe to be wrongfully passed over. In school, we never learned about the history of Africa unless it tied in with different topics such as European history. How can we make African history more meaningful than just a side topic to other topics…

Monotheism is the belief in one god in a certain religion. Monotheism is the most widely practiced religion on our planet, but how did it become so widespread? A big factor in this spread was a need for unity in groups. In a podcast interview with Azim Shariff who is…

To answer the question “How can/should historians decide significance” is a tough question. I believe that in order for something to be historically significant it has to affect many people and or change something about the world that the event took place in such as WWII or 9/11. When historians are deciding what's significant they run into many problems such as who is significant. I believe if whatever action that someone took is relevant to many other people such as MLK, his stand against society started a historical movement that would go down in history. How does the Silk Road fit my personal criteria? I think it fits quite well, the Silk Road is known for being the biggest and well-known trade route from China to India. This major trade route affected many people with a spread of new ideas and trade options.

Have we as a society let our own interest and or obsession with sport and contest change the way we see ancient Rome? The simple answer is yes, we as a society like to look down on our ancestors and our past so we can tell ourselves that we have…

How do historians identify continuity and change over time? The last case study about the practice of yoga is both a traditional sense and a modern practice this case study taught me many things about what historians have to consider when researching a topic. In this case study, the main…

How can historians take a historic perspective? I believe that historians use a combination of facts, evidence, and perspective in order to gain a fairly accurate idea of what historic times or events were like. Historians have to deal with facts and evidence all the time from artifacts that were…

How did early humans go from hunting and gathering to farming crops and animals. I learned that early humans started farming by picking seeds from wild plants and even domesticating some animals that they let roam for later hunting. This was done so that they had a general idea on…