World History's Got 99 Problems—And Periodization Is Definitely One of Them
Periodization is merely an organizing tool, something used to organize and have some semblance of control over vast swaths of history.
Periodization is merely an organizing tool, something used to organize and have some semblance of control over vast swaths of history.
In our attempts to mimic life, we may very well create something that yearns to know why it was created and if there is more to life, to existence, than meets the sensory inputs.
While the Europeans did manage some grand feats themselves, they were not alone. Robbing other civilizations, other peoples, and other geographies of their grand wonders is a crime of Euro-centrism, a virulent form of ethnocentrism.
Karl Marx astutely recognized the power, heavy artillery–like force of capital and the capitalist mode of production, and he predicted (somewhat) the era of globalization we are now familiar with in the twenty-first century.
In The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo describes, in brief detail, the process in which the Grand Khan, a great and noble ruler by Polo’s accounts, was able to turn paper into money…
To say Gregory VII only excommunicated Heinrich wouldn’t offer the full story.
Ironically, the conflict between the Pope and the Emperor didn’t arise out of the practice of lay investiture.
We live in a secular society, which does not look to gods, goddesses, or spirits for guidance or knowledge, but, rather, to science, coherent logic, and verifiable facts.
THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY offered several confusing and often polarizing moments in public political discourse, particularly in terms of the role religion should have in a supposedly secular society.