53 pages 1 hour read

John Robert Mcneill, William H. Mcneill

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

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The book notes that the expansion and consolidation of webs fosters growing inequality. Identify a system of inequality that you recognize, and trace the development of the system through the evolution of webs. What insights about contemporary society does this analysis reveal?

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The authors note parallels in the development of human societies, even before those societies were connected through webs. What do these parallels communicate about human behavior and survival?

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Choose one of the religions discussed in the text, and explain how it functions in the web. Additionally, identify the religion’s distinguishing features relative to other popular religions, and explain why those distinctions are significant.

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