William H. McNeill makes a monumental contribution to the knowledge of humanity in his book Plagues and Peoples. He looks at the history of the world from an ecological point of view. From this viewpoint the history of human civilization is greatly impacted by changing patterns of epidemic infection. Plagues and Peoples suggests that "the time scale of world history...should [be] viewed [through] the "domestication" of epidemic disease that occurred between 1300 and 1700" (page 232). "Domestication"
World history is defined as the study of the relationships between people and different aspects of society such as culture, behavior, freedom and religion (Manning,2003,1). Two factors have had a significant impact on world history, are external and internal factors (World History Connected, n.d). The external factors are based on scientific principles in areas such as chemistry, archaeology and the environment , internal factors are traditional topics of history such as slavery, freedom, abolition
The Historiography of the Origins of the Cold War There have been many attempts to explain the origins of the Cold War that developed between the capitalist West and the communist East after the Second World War. Indeed, there is great disagreement in explaining the source for the Cold War; some explanations draw on events pre-1945; some draw only on issues of ideology; others look to economics; security concerns dominate some arguments; personalities are seen as the root cause for some historians