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
Origins of Big Bang cosmology
lecture 6. How did everything begin?
The first stars and galaxies
The earth and solar system
lecture 10. The early earth
lecture 11. Plate tectonics and the earth's geography
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
lecture 17. Life on earth
lecture 19. Evidence on hominine evolution
What makes humans different?
lecture 22. Paleolithic lifeways
lecture 23. Change in the Paleolithic Era
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
The first agrarian civilization
lecture 31. Agrarian civilizations in other regions
lecture 32. The world that agrarian civilizations made
Expansion and state power
Disease and Malthusian cycles
lecture 36. Comparing the world zones.
Pt. 4. lecture 37. The Americas in the later Agrarian Era
lecture 39. The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500-1350
lecture 40. The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700
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
