Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

E1 . What Is Big History?

E2 . Moving across Multiple Scales

E3 . Simplicity and Complexity

E4 . Evidence and the Nature of Science

E5 . Threshold 1-Origins of Big Bang Cosmology

E6 . How Did Everything Begin?

E7 . Threshold 2-The First Stars and Galaxies

E8 . Threshold 3-Making Chemical Elements

E9 . Threshold 4-The Earth and the Solar System

E10 . The Early Earth-A Short History

E11 . Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography

E12 . Threshold 5-Life

E13 . Darwin and Natural Selection

E14 . The Evidence for Natural Selection

E15 . The Origins of Life

E16 . Life on Earth-Single-celled Organisms

E17 . Life on Earth-Multi-celled Organisms

E18 . Hominines

E19 . Evidence on Hominine Evolution

E20 . Threshold 6-What Makes Humans Different?

E21 . Homo sapiens-The First Humans

E22 . Paleolithic Lifeways

E23 . Change in the Paleolithic Era

E24 . Threshold 7-Agriculture

E25 . The Origins of Agriculture

E26 . The First Agrarian Societies

E27 . Power and Its Origins

E28 . Early Power Structures

E29 . From Villages to Cities

E30 . Sumer-The First Agrarian Civilization

E31 . Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions

E32 . The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made

E33 . Long Trends-Expansion and State Power

E34 . Long Trends-Rates of Innovation

E35 . Long Trends-Disease and Malthusian Cycles

E36 . Comparing the World Zones

E37 . The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era

E38 . Threshold 8-The Modern Revolution

E39 . The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500--1350

E40 . The Early Modern Cycle, 1350--1700

E41 . Breakthrough-The Industrial Revolution

E42 . Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900

E43 . The 20th Century

E44 . The World That the Modern Revolution Made

E45 . Human History and the Biosphere

E46 . The Next 100 Years

E47 . The Next Millennium and the Remote Future

E48 . Big History-Humans in the Cosmos