History room
With historical space , the space is meant in which history developed. Reinhart Koselleck formulates: "Every historical space is constituted by the time it can be measured through, making it politically or economically controllable."
One can speak of a closed history space where history has developed over a historically significant period without any recognizable outside influences.
That would be Australia in the time of the Aborigines , the American continent between the immigration from Siberia and the penetration of Europeans (around 1000 and then from 1492) and the Afro-Eurasian area.
In a less strict sense, one can speak from the Mediterranean to Persia, from the South Asian and from the East Asian and in Africa distinguish between the North African and the Black African regions belonging to the Mediterranean. In contrast, Central America in America has a strong bond function, so that only the extreme south and the extreme north are clearly separated from each other.
Northern Europe was relatively severely separated from the Mediterranean region until the time of the Great Migration . Phases can also be identified where the Mediterranean and Asian regions are relatively clearly separated by the Arab region, so that it is difficult to establish a uniform chronology .
History in a closed history space is completely independent, but it is the exception. Cultures normally develop in exchange, although until the Age of Discovery they develop in limited exchange. Until then, history can only be written by peoples, empires and states and their external relations. Then several continent-spanning political units, the colonial empires, and actions such as the Atlantic triangular trade appear. Previously, political external relations and long-distance trade had established connections, but did not create any new units of action.
However, global history only develops with imperialism and the First and Second World Wars .
literature
- Jürgen Osterhammel: The transformation of the world. A story of the 19th century. Beck, München 2009, pp. 129–180 (The illustration refers to the space of the 19th century, but repeatedly makes general statements about the historical space.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Koselleck: Time layers. Studies in history, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, p. 9, quoted from: Jürgen Osterhammel: The Metamorphosis of the World. A story of the 19th century. Beck, Munich 2009, p. 129