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World History: A Comparative Analysis

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World History is defined as the “story of connections within the global human community” (Manning, 2003, 3), whereby studies involve the crossing of boundaries as well as the linking of systems amongst communities within our past. There are two factors, better known as “paths”, argued to have revolutionised World History, namely “internal historian” and “external scientific-cultural” paths. Internal paths relate to global linkages to find interconnection between communities across the globe, such as the movement of resources through markets, and the expansion of past empires to new territory. External paths relate to the emergence of new information which reflect on changes through time, such as human evolution and changes in the environment. Patrick Mannings’ argument, as well as reasoning on World-History is valid. Internal Historian and external cultural-scientific paths have revolutionised World-History, and this is why: …show more content…

These technologies spread to different communities to assist with the increase in populations needing faster food production, and with the movement of these people and technologies from their home regions, came the spread of these diseases to various regions too, such as the beubonic plague which spread to Senegal after French Imperialism (an external path), and with this evidence, based on the concept of these two paths, historians were able to link occurrences from one event to many different historical events around the globe, providing us with greater understanding of the occurrence and origin of specific events in the past. The theory behind these two paths resulted in the revolutionist ion of the study of World …show more content…

They have helped expand the study of history to not only study the past of one area, but link its past to other areas. It has allowed for the creation of new studies such as “Archaeology” and “Anthropology”, as well as resulted in people working in other professions, such as linguistics, to challenge historical concepts globally to understand the work within their field. With the discovery of linkages and patterns in World-History through these two paths, historians have also been enabled to challenge the ideas of the past and dig deep into the discovery of true World-History to explain the past, leading to a revolutionised world of

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