My impression is that the OP says that history is valuable and deep without needing to go back as far as the big bang—that there’s a lot of insight in connecting the threads of different regional histories in order to gain an understanding of how human society works, without needing to go back even further.
My impression is that the OP says that history is valuable and deep without needing to go back as far as the big bang—that there’s a lot of insight in connecting the threads of different regional histories in order to gain an understanding of how human society works, without needing to go back even further.