How history actually moves
How history actually moves
This learning plan equips you with the analytical frameworks used by historians, strategists, and policymakers to understand why societies change over time. It's essential for anyone seeking to make sense of current geopolitical shifts, technological disruptions, or social transformations by understanding the deeper patterns and forces that have shaped human history. Whether you're a student of history, a business strategist, or simply someone who wants to think more rigorously about where we've been and where we're headed, this course provides the conceptual tools to analyze change at civilizational scale.
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学べること
- Master the major theoretical frameworks that historians, philosophers, and social scientists use to explain why civilizations rise, fall, and transform
- Analyze how material conditions—geography, technology, and economics—constrain and enable historical possibilities across different eras
- Understand the role of institutions in creating path dependencies that shape whether societies thrive or stagnate over centuries
- Evaluate competing claims about historical patterns: whether history moves in cycles, progresses linearly, or follows contingent, unpredictable paths
- Develop a sophisticated toolkit for analyzing current events and predicting future trends by understanding the deeper forces that drive historical change
Discover the foundational debates about what drives history—from great individuals and ideas to material forces and cycles—and learn how different thinkers have explained the patterns of human progress and transformation.
Explore how physical geography, technological innovation, and economic systems create the material conditions that shape civilizations, determine winners and losers, and drive long-term historical trajectories.
Understand how institutions—from property rights to political systems—create feedback loops that either enable prosperity and innovation or trap societies in cycles of stagnation and decline.
Synthesize competing views on whether history follows predictable patterns or contingent paths, examining evidence for both cyclical theories and directional progress while understanding the role of chance and human agency.
Journey through world history from the cognitive revolution to modern times, exploring how trade routes, shared beliefs, and grand transitions shaped our interconnected world. Discover why Asia was civilization's true center and what patterns from the past reveal about our future.
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