Charles Gombrich's A Little History Of The World

In even simpler terms, ‘’ The world as it exists today is only a product of its past,’’ means that we are who we are today because of specific, choices, actions, mistakes, and consequences, that took place in the past. No one knows what is going to happen until it does, and then only the consequences for that specific action follow. We can assume what could have happened, but no one knows for sure what the world would be like if things had gone differently. People's choices, along with mistakes, affect us greatly,and this is where this lesson comes into play in A Little History Of The World. The chain reaction of one event, can sculpt so many more, in the end creating a unique masterpiece that is our world today. For example, if Charles Martel and the Franks had lost their battles against the Arabs in 732, so many more people
This is one of those things we think would have majorly affected the present. You and I might not exist. Finally, around the time of the American Civil War, Japan had allowed Europe to teach them all they knew about the new technology of the world. After a few decades, Japan knew just as much as the European countries, becoming some of the greatest learners in history.( Gombrich page 253 A Little History of the World) If it wasn’t for the decision the Japanese made to become the students, they may not be as advanced as they are today. This would have impacted the whole world, because all of Japan’s advances would not have happened. Our history shapes us into the people we are today, and as you can see, our actions take a huge role in it. The theme is correct because the world we know today is here only because of what others did in the