1. INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY

2. I.Universal Cultural Pattern: needs common to all peoples 1.The need to survive or make a living: provide for survival. 2.The need for law and order: keep order within their own communities, protect community assets. 3.The need for social organization: social structure and hierarchy within the community.

3. 4.The need for knowledge and learning: 5.The need for artistic self-expression: People need to express themselves creatively. 6.The need for religious expression: All people need to understand their existences, the natural world around them, and especially death. These together represent our number one human identifier: FREE WILL

4. II.Development of Civilization: A.Stages of human development: As we came together for survival. 1.Nomadic Hunters - Gatherers 2.Farmers and Herders 3.Civilizations

8. III.What makes a civilization? A.Creation of urban centers B.institutional politics

9. C.Creation of class system 1.pyramid--few on top, lots on the bottom D.Creation of Specialized sciences and arts

10. E.Creation of written language F.Movement from equality to inequality

11. III.Seven View points on why History happened: History seeks to explain not just what happened by why it happened when it did. 1.Divine will Role of gods, god, or deities. 2.The role of the individual actions of key individuals at key moments in time that created history. 3.Forces and laws Scientific laws 4.Group action Not one person but a group of people

12. 5.Economic forces Finances or money governed the action of human beings 6.Civilizations grew like biological organisms spring, summer, fall and winter. Everything has its time. 7.Survival of the fittest/ Social Darwinism The strong survive and the weak fail.