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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

by Cynthia Stokes Brown · 2007

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'Big History' begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom and ends with a 21st century world inhabited by 6.1 billion people. It's a story that takes in prehistoric geography, human evolution, the agrarian age, the Black Death, the voyages of Columbus, the Industrial Revolution and global warming.

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medium · 304 pages

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