pt. 1. lecture 1. What is big history? -- lecture 2. Moving across multiple scales -- lecture 3. Simplicity and complexity -- lecture 4. Evidence and the nature of science -- lecture 5. Threshold 1--Origins of Big Bang cosmology -- lecture 6. How did everything begin? -- lecture 7. Threshold 2--The first stars and galaxies -- lecture 8. Threshold 3--Making chemical elements -- lecture 9. Threshold 4--The earth and solar system -- lecture 10. The early earth--a short history -- lecture 11. Plate tectonics and the earth's geography -- lecture 12. Threshold 5--Life.
pt. 2. lecture 13. Darwin and natural selection -- lecture 14. The evidence for natural selection -- lecture 15. The origins of life -- lecture 16. Life on earth--Single-celled organisms -- lecture 17. Life on earth--Multi-celled organisms -- lecture 18. Hominines -- lecture 19. Evidence on hominine evolution -- lecture 20. Threshold 6--What makes humans different? -- lecture 21. Homo sapiens--The first humans -- lecture 22. Paleolithic lifeways -- lecture 23. Change in the Paleolithic Era -- lecture 24. Threshold 7--Agriculture.
pt. 3. lecture 25. The origins of agriculture -- lecture 26. The first agrarian societies -- lecture 27. Power and its origins -- lecture 28. Early power structures -- lecture 29. From villages to cities -- lecture 30. Sumer--The first agrarian civilization -- lecture 31. Agrarian civilizations in other regions -- lecture 32. The world that agrarian civilizations made -- lecture 33. Long trends--Expansion and state power -- lecture. 34. Long trends--Rates of innovation -- lecture 35. Long trends--Disease and Malthusian cycles -- lecture 36. Comparing the world zones.
pt. 4. lecture 37. The Americas in the later Agrarian Era -- lecture 38. Threshold 8--The modern revolution -- lecture 39. The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500-1350 -- lecture 40. The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700 -- lecture 41. Breakthrough--the Industrial Revolution -- lecture 42. Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900 -- lecture 43. The 20th century -- lecture 44. The world that the modern revolution made -- lecture 45. Human history and the biosphere -- lecture 46. The next 100 years -- lecture 47. The next millennium and the remote future -- lecture 48. Big history--humans in the cosmos.
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