My Thoughts on Historical Timelines- Ch.1 reading

It's amazing and interesting at the same time to think about how long the earth has been around. History can only go back so far. There is just so much we do not know. 

I found the time table on page 13 quite interesting. It is a timeline of date and beginning of a new historical event in history, of course. For example, the first time recording it states is "Earliest bipedal homids" which was approximately 7 to 6 million years ago. Cool, right? Another time in history is states is "Earliest Homo sapiens in Africa" which was approximately 250,000 years ago. The last category in history is states is "Human entry into New Zealand" which was approximately 1,000. That one is the most recent. 

The most recent is 1k years ago, yet it seems like centuries ago. As year by year goes by, one does not notice how fast the years go by until you reflect 5-10 or maybe 20-30 years back. Then one will see the many changes, struggles, victories that he/she went through. 

History may not seem interesting to every one, but it is important. It is important to understand our past. Whether our past is from Europe, Africa, Australia, South America, or North America. History is and will always be apart of us. The past is a learning experience to prevent to remake same mistakes in the future. 

Overall, my intake in today's class reading is that history is important. There is a historical timeline that tells us, the reader, what and when things occurred in history. If you ask me, I think that's pretty amazing. 

If you bothered to read this, thank you xx