When we think about history over any time scale, we tend to think about one region, person, group, etc within that period of time. In reality, “everything” was

When we think about history over any time scale, we tend to think about one region, person, group, etc within that period of time. In reality, “everything” was going on during that time. History is far richer than we tend to realize. So much is going on all the time; it’s impossible to grasp it all.