what is world history?

Question

a definition of world history

Answer 1

The study of past world wide events.

Answer 2

I know most schools offer a wolrd history class. There is an AP one as well. I think World History is the History of Asia, Africa, Austallia. Mainly places that arent covered in a US History class and or an European History class

Answer 3

My definition is that world history is the study of those outside one's own country. Depending on where a person lives, depends on what the rest of the world is to that person. If a person lives in the United States, then world history is those outside the U.S. If a person is from Great Britain, then world history is those outside of Great Britain.

Answer 4

The history of the world, by convention, is human history, from the first appearance of Homo sapiens to the present. Human history is marked both by a gradual accretion of discoveries and inventions, as well as by quantum leaps — paradigm shifts, and revolutions — that comprise epochs in the material and spiritual evolution of humankind.

Human history, as opposed to prehistory, has in the past been said to begin with the invention, independently at several sites on Earth, of writing, which created the infrastructure for lasting, accurately transmitted memories and thus for the diffusion and growth of knowledge.[1] Writing, in its turn, had been made necessary in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, which had given rise to civilization, i.e., to permanent settled communities, which fostered a growing diversity of trades.

Such scattered habitations, centered about life-sustaining bodies of water — rivers and lakes — coalesced over time into ever larger units, in parallel with the evolution of ever more efficient means of transport. These processes of coalescence, spurred by rivalries and conflicts between adjacent communities, gave rise over millenia to ever larger states, and then to superstates or empires. The fall of the Roman Empire in Europe at the end of antiquity signalled the beginning of the Middle Ages.

In the mid-15th century, Johannes Gutenberg's invention of modern printing, employing movable type, revolutionized communication, helping end the Middle Ages and usher in modern times, the European Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution.

By the 18th century, the accumulation of knowledge and technology, especially in Europe, had reached a critical mass that sparked into existence the Industrial Revolution. Over the quarter-millennium since, knowledge, technology, commerce, and — concomitantly with these — war have accelerated at a geometric rate, creating the opportunities and perils that now confront the human communities that together inhabit a planet of scarce resources.

Answer 5

The recording, or recollecting, of past world events.
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Answer 6

Everything that has ever happened on this miserable speck of cosmic dust. I suggest that you narrow your topic. This is too much for any one individual, or even one computer, to handle!

Answer 7

history = whatever happened that somebody thought was important enough to remember.