i'm not into books..especially history books..
those books are so boring for me..
i'd like to get information from you guys..
i think it's much fun to learn this way..
thanks a lot!!!
2007-09-11 20:22:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It started with the creation of Adam. Genesis chapters 1-3.
2007-09-11 20:34:27 · answer #1 · answered by litecandles 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Humankind as a whole has a history that can be described and in some measure understood. Studying the human past in a holistic way means asking historical questions about events and developments that are relatively broad in time and space. Investigating the past on any scale is valid. Where one scholar might research 30 years in the modern history of a Mexican village, another might take on 300 years in the development of Latin American economies. A third might explore 3,000 years of global climatic change and its affects on economic change around the world. A fourth might consider why human beings took up agriculture in the context of 300,000 years of human biological and cultural development
2007-09-11 21:00:33 · answer #2 · answered by sparks9653 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've read that human history started when people started to tell stories to other people and when they started to record events in their everyday lives. So I guess human history started with the "prehistory of humankind".
Others might say that human history started when the first civilizations started rise.
But I think it would help you a lot if you brush up on some books. You should not rely on other people too much. Some people might misinform you and you might not be able to know it. Even though you might find it boring, you must still try to read history books.
2007-09-11 20:33:02 · answer #3 · answered by Perennial Rhinitis 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to estimations based on fossils and carbon dating, humans started to exist about 200,000 years ago in Africa. About 10,000 years ago humans finally figured out how to master the arts of farming and raising livestock and that is when civilizations as we know them today started. because having farms made the people all live together in a community. From what I've read, the first serious civilization with all the complexities of society like we have today was the Ancient Egyptians, about 7,000 years ago. But I might be wrong about that.
Or if you think the bible is real, human history started 6,000 years ago when God created Adam, shortly after the creation of the earth itself- 6,000 years ago. And carbon dating and fossil evidence are wrong, probably planted by the devil to confuse people.
2007-09-13 15:05:34 · answer #4 · answered by egn18s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, Kitty, modern bible "scholars" estimate that Adam and Eve lived circa 5315 BC; yet scholars at Cambridge, England in the 1600s (and also an Irish Bishop name Ussher) were more precise in their estimation. They said that Adam was created on October 23, 4004 BC - - at 9 AM ! . My guess is that they meant local time in Eden whatever time zone that was in (the 1600s were before time zones). The problem is that we have evidence of human writing before that time, so this suggests that someone is wrong about the timing of Adam - - some human is wrong, not God. History to historians is trying to get it right - what truly happened - as best it can be worked out from the records. It is a study of records left by man from oral traditional stories finally written down (Homer's Iliad and the Bible) to carvings on stone tablets. Archeology is a bit different. They have to make guesses from pottery shards and be even more imaginative. History is frustrating because we can never be 100% sure that we have it right. Heck, even news stories on TV or in newspapers don't always get it right, and these stories are events happening now. Figuring out what happened 7000 years ago is extremely difficult - - but it is mind bending fun to those of us who like to figure out histories mysteries.
2007-09-11 21:22:29 · answer #5 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ummm you can't really learn like this. Books are part of what it means to be human, their not like some kind of fashion; You can't just "not be into" them.
2007-09-11 21:09:42 · answer #6 · answered by Perceiver 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
first human created is ADAM...
2007-09-11 21:21:24 · answer #7 · answered by ckedot 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋