Summary Of This Fleeting World: A Short History Of Humanity

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In This Fleeting World: A Short History Of Humanity , author David Christian tells a theory of Homo Sapiens from the beginning of time to now, and tells why it’s important to know of it. His Argument to to show how humans have changed over time from the first humans to the humans now and why that is so important. The book starts with a Preface (written by Bob Bain and Lauren McArthur Harris.) And it talks about how world history in a whole is a very hard subject to learn or even teach at times. In their experiment, some teachers even attempted that they didn’t know the certain areas in time to put it all together. And when they question something they check textbooks and other sources that do give them the best answers. But this book from what the preface says has the answers that teaches both teachers and students what parts in world history they have missed out on. David Christian’s: This Fleeting World: A Short History Of Humanity is to be used as a tool not just another textbook that has history in it. This isn’t the…show more content…
The first era is the Stone Ages or the Foraging era as said before. This is the longest era, when the first humans would get the things to make food, clothes, and etc. They kinda lived like Apes but there was one thing different humans could communicate. this helped humans learn and share things so others could too. Next, The Agrarian era, the more advanced era. It lasted 10 thousand years, the years of agriculture. humans of this era changed from the old era and started a new, they started to make communities that were bigger and more denser. then animals were domesticated to farm and etc. Lastly, the Modern era, the industrial era. Lasted 250 years, but the world changed a bunch in such a short time. The communities have gotten bigger, life spans became longer, and more productivity. But the more industrial we got wars broke out, such as World War 1 & 2, and the war in
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