History’s broadest pattern is its different unfolding on different continents over the last 13,000 years. My focus is on trends over whole continents since the last Ice Age his, on much smaller areas for shorter times.
Without disputing the value of McNeill’s approach, I believe that our differences arise from the different historical scales that we consider.
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