National Geog Soc - Atlas of the Human Journey
DNA - human origins - biology
Linguists - language origins
Historians - ideas, institutions, social patterns

Globaliz
    economy - oil, labor, markets
soon more in China knowing English than US
internet

increasingly we come to know that focus on only one group
 of humans over a short period of time will not help us
understand the human journey

globaliz - long history

our problem - thousands of years, billions of people, hundreds of billions of events

we try to organize the past into understandable parts

in this class, end by 1400 - try to lose for the moment
one of the greatest strengths that we have as humans
"hindsight"

11 units, 1 project, 7 weeks

focus on contacts, interconnections, learnings, borrowings, comparisons

geol of NM - road Alb to Gallup
    Precmabrian granite
    "young" 5 million yr old lava flows
    sediment laid down whtn NM an ocean
    glacial metling, clacial lakes
    still active volcanic molten lakes below crust
    still shifting faults, tectonic plates

the road did not just go from A to G - but affected by all of the above.
and Alb and Gallup themselves products also of those elements