Study of the archaic psyche, over 200 millenia (original) (raw)

Parts of Christian theology Certain conceptions in politics. These various, seemingly independent domains all depend on the structures of the human mind, and are profoundly modified by a new paradigm. Understanding the history The human lineage unfolds its history over a long period of time, some 200,000 years since the origin of homo sapiens sapiens, 2 our species. Understanding means identifying the markers that mark this history, and discovering the forces that act on these markers. The red thread, an analytical expression, designates the guiding idea that makes it possible to understand a complex whole. History through events Historians most often approach history in this way. One example shows why the event-based approach does not shed light on the factors that drive history. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, four nations-Portugal, Spain, France and England-together occupied 1% of the world's surface. Three centuries later, these populations had populated the two Americas and Australia, 50 million squares kilometers. The Russians of Europe, 3% of the planet's surface, had populated Siberia, 13 million squares kilometers. In all, counting Central and Southern Europe, Europeans inhabited 72 million square kilometers of the 134 million squares kilometers of the entire planet, more than half. A century and a half later, European colonialism controlled 29 million square kilometers out of 30 in Africa, 8 in South Asia 3 , and 5 in Central Asia 4 , 115 million square kilometers out of 2 Homo sapiens is a species that appeared 400 millennia ago, is now extinct and is different from present-day humans. Within this species, a sub-species appeared 200 millennia ago, homo sapiens sapiens, to which we belong.