Describe TWO things that you found to be most interesting, surprising, or disturbing about metahistory. Give specific examples and explain your answers: (You may refer to Tosh, Guns, Germs, and Steel video.

Some questions you may want to consider:

Is there any value in understanding metahistorical theories like those of Karl Marx or Jared Diamond? Explain.

Does human history have an ultimate goal or purpose? What have some historians thought? What do you think?

Why do many historians reject broad metahistorical explanations?

Is human history deterministic? Why does Jared Diamond think that it is? Do you agree or disagree with his ideas in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

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Metahistory is the first attempt to explain the whole of history not as a series of historical narratives but as a single story The author Jerome Blum provides the key to his approach in his Preface H... View the full answer