Notes

Notes 1: The first kind of history is linear history(timeline). The second kind is cyclic history like reincarnation where everything is a cycle. A third kind of history was though of by Hegel where history is made up of things conflicting with eachother and then things change.It is sumed up as thesis + antithesis = synthesis. See Hegelian Theory of History. The thesis is event 1, the antithesis is event 2 and then event three is the synthesis which then leads to a new thesis. I


Event 1: John, strongest kid in class, doesn't tie his shoes + Event 2: John picks on group of kids, bullying them.




Event 3: = John chases the kids, but slips out of his shoe.




II


Event 1: John sprains his ankle. + Event 2: John gets jumped on the way home from school.


Event 3: John goes home injured






III


Event 1: John is beat up and has to go to the hospital + Event 2: John leaves the hospital healed



Event 3:John goes back to school and beats up the kids who jumped him.

One more kind of history is vortex theory of history. This theory states that you go from big to small then to big again. William Butler Yeats said that civilization go from big to small then to big again. For example Roman Empire went from a small village to a huge empire then fell back to little again during the Dark Ages, and then got big again during the renassiance.

History is often taught through cause and effect situations like this happened because this happened but, history isn't the same everywhere so lots of different things happen at once.





Notes 2: In the land that is now Pakistan was called the Indes Vaalley, all of the cities grew around the river. The two main cities were Harappa and Mohenjo- Daro. Around 3000 B.C, the people of the area made they a public sewage system today. These cities were able to make these inventions by having a good amount of trade, very smart people, and a very steady food supply which gave them the time to work on this. From these facts we know that they had a complex society and had a very good trading system because historians have found things that they made in the Indes Valley were found in the Greek society. To this day anthropologists do not know what happened but the Harappan society disappeared and we have no idea what happened to them. There was no evidence of their cities or artifacts anywhere, as if they we vanished off the face of the Earth. What happened to Harappa is a very good example of the Vortex theory.