Big History

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What is big history?
Big History has to do with the history of our planet before human life. This in turn can be connected to the events of the present and gives us a little preview of what will happen in the future. 
The Big History covers information from the big bang, which gives us an explanation of our space in the world. It also teaches us everything we have been able to learn from history in a more conventional way, analyzing on scriptures, fossils, important events. In the end, based on our historical knowledge we can visualize a little of what is to come in the future. 

Is this a new concept to you or have you heard of it before?
This is a new concept for me. It sounds very interesting.
Does it seem logical to you that history could be taught this way?
Teaching history this way would be nice, but that would mean reviewing what we already learned. It would be like taking information from different topics and turning it into one. Having an accurate and detailed concept of our past and how we have got to where we are. Best of all, we would include part of the history that we have rejected until today.

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