Taking a course on coursera

Starting from yesterday, I choose a historical class at the coursera, named “the history of the world since 1300”.

I chose this one because I’ve read a book about the world around 1400. From every corner of the world there are stories never been told while I’m a senior high school student. I’m so astonished that all parts were connected together. There are so many connections that from the perspective of story telling, we don’t need to forced to memorize all that, to get high score in history class exam.

The textbook is categorized by each continent of the world, each civilization of the world, from ancient time to the present. Therefore each civilization seemed to live on a “lonely planet”, have their own stories, separated from outside world. Even been invaded it looked like just some regular event, just a single spot vanished right away that those people don’t care. And so do we as student. Because we were just asked to get higher score. Sound so sad, huh?

So, I took the course. Quite enjoy it now. Thanks professor Adalman.

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