There are several ways to tell a story. For many, the history of mankind begins when a group of people called discoverers ‘incorporate’ into the world territories always inhabited by someone before their arrival. They are followed by conquerors, travelers, explorers, settlers, and cartographers. Thus, from the fifteenth century, the map of the world was completed. Those who drew the full map have narrated the total story since then, from the Eurocentric and Anglophone view but now, they try to look to the places they excluded from the great story.
That feeling of lack has led to revolutionary actions that are lately described using the “inclusive” adjective. Although, Europe’s endless impertinence has been, at the same time, a huge curiosity for the unknown that has put everybody on the map.
without a doubt, never stay with curiosity, never stop wondering, never stop moving, and never stop fighting for your ideals or beliefs are the most important lessons you can learn from the videos.
From curiosity and movement, a universal history of humanity as a species, as a unique genre and not as a set of civilizations, nations or populations was born. The videos show us the story of a collective people that, like an individual, are born, grow, dream, live, feel fear, have hope, and evolve. These videos will intertwine different facts that today make up our civilization as the history of the first humans on the planet, the fall of some empires and the birth of others, the emergence of religion, the discovery of America and its conquest, the beginning of battles in the modern world, the great revolts of history to reach the 7 billion people who inhabit the planet and all this was given by people who thought beyond their reality.
From the beginning motivated by curiosity, humans develop innovations to survive, discover fire and agriculture, build cities, and pyramids. They invent commerce and dominate the art of war but curiosity is a double-edged sword that later became into ambition and the desire to have more and more to the point of attacking each other, as a mysterious group of pirates did it plundering the Mediterranean coast and leaving destruction. Empires fall, but along with chaos comes the discovery of iron. Many years later motivated by their ideals and beliefs was born Christianity with a wide network of roads and sea routes allowing products and ideas to travel across three continents. Turning Christianity into one of the three great religions of the world. But the Arabs, financed by gold, joined their forces under the flag of Islam, on the other hand, the Vikings become Christian knights and this gives rise to a clash of beliefs and civilizations called crusades. In 1492 Cristobal Colon motivated by a book of Marco Polo and his desire to discover a new route to India. He asked the kings of Spain, Fernando & Isabel for economic help.
After months of sailing, he encountered a new continent, America. Thanks to humanity’s need for movement, there is a rapid commercial increase and with it a large mass migration of people in chase of freedom, after this, a new era of exploration begins. North American, Siberian, and Australian ancient traditions disappear due to trade and science. But humanity has never stopped wondering and that is why it was born the era of innovation, transformation, and mass production. People think ‘anything is possible”. Humans invented rubber and the nitrogen-based fertilizer. The Alaska Highway is built but at the same time, the most lethal and destructive weapon in history is built: the atomic bomb. But not everything is negative, in South Africa, the first heart transplantation surgery took place and 9 out of 10 households in the United States has television turning the media into a key piece to carry out the latest news around the world.
Finally, the curiosity of our ancestors made us the civilization that we are today. The vast majority of their inventions such as printing, rubber, electricity, silk, machines, among others revolutionized today’s world and their inventions are our present day. However, not everything was positive, opium, for example, was used as a drug, weapons were and still are used to kill each other, and differences in thought, worship, and religion nowadays are the biggest causes of discrimination. sometimes our world seems to be walking backward and repeating a story that was full of pain and death.
Great Curiosity for the Unknown. (2022, Apr 27). Retrieved from https://paperap.com/great-curiosity-for-the-unknown/