A.P. World History

Habit of Mind 5

Seeing global patterns and processes over time and space while connecting local developments to global ones

Reflection

Throughout the entire course, we had to develop the skill of connecting local developments to global developments. In order to strengthen this habit, we usually discuss how to tie a local development and connect it to a global development By analyzing and keeping in your head the big picture, it made it so much easier to discuss global issues and how they impacted other parts of the world. The big picture is a list of developments and eventful happenings that occurred in a time period all around the world. It got me to think about how one event can cause another event in some other place in the world. It’s like a domino effect, one domino falls and the rest fall down with it eventually and with history a small disease can start to spread and cause a huge decrease in population. To improve this skill, I would pay attention to the big picture poster located on the left side of Mr. Rodriguez’s desk and somehow tie in events that happened around the same time. Finding out why those events happened was the hard part but in the end, this was so helpful for me, because it helped explain how one small thing in a distant part of the world can change a lot somewhere else. Like when Columbus went off to find a new route to Asia, he wasn’t expecting to be landing on the Americas and discovering new food crops that would later benefit other parts of the world and causing the population to increase.

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