World History

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This paper explains that the Earth has a long history, which has been recorded by hundreds of different civilizations and historians; each of the six periods in this report made its own unique contribution to the story of world history and passed down their knowledge for the benefit of the next civilization. The author points out, for example, that the River Valley civilizations from 6000 B.C. to 500 B.C. arose in different river valleys spanning from the Nile to the Indus, across to the Yellow and to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; these people began to learn how to irrigate by constructing canals and levees to divert the flow of the rivers to farms. The paper concludes that the commonality of each period including today is that economics molds history and shapes current world conditions.

Table of Contents
River Valley Civilizations 6000 B.C. - 500 B.C.
Early Empires 1000 B.C. - 300 B.C.
Classical Empires 500 B.C. - 600 A.D.
Asian Dominance 600 A.D. - 1500 A.D.
The World before the Americas
The Modern Era 1500 A.D. - The Present
The Current World State
Prediction of the Future
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Asian Dominance 600A.D. - 1500 A.D.: This period is marked by unifications of huge masses of people. It was during this time that new lands were brought under cultivation in Africa and the Middle East, Arab engineers and farmers were skillful in constructing irrigation projects. These rewards, combined with the revival of existing regions of production and importation of new plants from the empires on the Indian Ocean led to economic surpluses and vast food resources for the Arab people. Similarly, in Europe, Christianity was a uniting force for the people; Europeans came to see the old Roman Empire as nothing but a vehicle that helped spread Christianity."

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