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Description of  History Explains (vol.1): Understanding the vague present through the historical incidents (economic perspective ) (FRESH MAN)

History is human's collective memory of the past, and only humans have this kind of memory. For modern people, history is the most common enlightenment. All social phenomena are historical in their essence, and every event that occurs or exists at "a certain moment" cannot be separated from their past and future. Reading history is to understand the present and look to the future. It is very necessary for a sound-minded modern person to read history, especially world history. Compared with the traditional history of countries and nations, the narrative of world history is much broader. General readers who want to enter the history of the world may wish to choose some small entrances and understand the "big history" from the "small history". This is the meaning of this book. Every one of us cannot live without food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. This is also the norm in human history. It should be the easiest and easiest to understand history from the perspective of food, clothing, housing, and transportation. To solve the problem of food, clothing, housing, and transportation, it is not enough to be self-sufficient. This leads to commodities and exchanges. To some extent, it is precise because of the emergence of commodities and exchanges that human society can be formed, civilization can emerge, and history can be born. Business eliminates the need for human beings to resort to violence, relying on trade to exchange what is needed, promotes production, and increases commonwealth. In the development process of human civilization, nomadic, farming, and commerce are three typical social forms. Nomadic society is the most primitive and barbaric. The settled farming society can easily form a closed hierarchical autocratic empire. The rule of law and a contractualized commercial society is the emergence of modern civilization. In the past, we often thought that globalization and capitalism were the products of the industrial revolution. In fact, this is a kind of prejudice and misunderstanding. Once the commodity economy was formed, globalization and capitalism (commercial capitalism) appeared. Commodities have no legs, but they go farther than people in order to make commodities bring benefits, capital will overwhelm everything. In other words, economic globalization is a long-term historical process.