Great History (grande histoire)
Many old countries in Asia have their own myths which tell how their nations were built.
But, the U.S. has not. The U.K. has not. France has not. Germany has not. Italy has not. Canada has not. Yet, Japan has. And, modern Israel has not.
Of course, communist China does not need the old myth of the Han Chinese.
Finally, the Vatican has one but strangely it is not in Jerusalem.
SECTION I: WORLD HISTORY
Everybody calls this year 2011, since Christ Jesus was thought to have been born in AD 1.
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (except Japanese), Chinese, and even Japanese use this Christian calendar. So, this is 2011, since Wall Street and the City use this calendar. Conversely, if Muslims occupy Wall Street and the City to introduce their calendar, this year would be called 1432 all over the world.
So, Christians occupied most of money in this world to a degree that they think it is a matter of course that Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (except Japanese), Chinese, and even Japanese use their calendar, namely the Christian calendar. All 1.57 billion Muslims, 0.9 billion Hindus, 0.3 billion Buddhists (except Japanese), 1billion Han Chinese, and 128 million Japanese, namely, total 4 billion non-Christians in the world follow the Christian way of counting days, months, and years. But, if Christians do not have Wall Street and the City as well as a huge amount of money, would Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (except Japanese), Chinese, and even Japanese adopt the Christian calendar?
Put simply, it is not virtue and spiritual power of Christianity that has forced Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (except Japanese), Chinese, and even Japanese to adopt and follow the Christian calendar.
But how have Christians come to acquire such huge wealth as they run it in Wall Street and the City? This can be a great motivation to learn the world history.
First of all it is the well-known Industrial Revolution that changed the world as the most decisive underlying incident to date. Till this Revolution, most of landscapes in the world were almost the same as they had been 1000 years before. But, after the Revolution, the landscape, for example, of England changed forever.
The Industrial Revolution started in England in the late 18th century. It expanded to the U.S. in the early 19th century and finally to Japan in the late 19th century.
First of all it is the well-known Industrial Revolution that changed the world as the most decisive underlying incident to date. Till this Revolution, most of landscapes in the world were almost the same as they had been 1000 years before. But, after the Revolution, the landscape, for example, of England changed forever.
The Industrial Revolution started in England in the late 18th century. It expanded to the U.S. in the early 19th century and finally to Japan in the late 19th century.
http://lbs.air-nifty.com/blog/2011/01/1000-55ab.html
The power of the industry was however most drastically manifested in the Civil War in the U.S. After the War, it started to be widely applied to various sectors in America, launching the society to higher living standards. Especially in 1890, industrial output of the U.S. exceeded for the first time its agricultural output. In 1913, industrial output of the U.S. accounted for one third of the world industrial production. It should be also noted that it is 1870 that Rockefeller established Standard Oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United_States
With coal and oil now available for its industrial energy source, the industrial activities of the U.S. started to be multiplied. Indeed, if the earth did not have coal and crude oil, no industrial revolution was possible in England from the beginning. The material civilization supported by iron and crude oil began to grow so rapidly in the U.S. , Europe, and then Japan.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/cofc
Yet, compared with the explosion of technological application after 1970's, the world before it looked so primitive. What happened in 1970s? It is a quantum leap in development of electronics. If you had lived in a big castle in Europe, you would not have felt so rich without goods and products where electronics is applied. And, it was Japanese makers that drove this technological trend. PCs, the Internet, and mobile phones are all in extension of this electronics boom in 1970s. Now the human material civilization came to consist of iron, crude oil, and electronics (chips). It should be also noted that electronics paved the way for formation of cyber space where financial transactions were conducted even 1000 times or one million times per second. Wealth purely based on money was now being created so quickly in computers on desks of a financial institute as they were all connected via communications networks. It is reflected in the growth of American GDP.
If history simply focuses on material wealth or history finds significance only in an amount of material wealth, the big bang must be this 1970s. (However it is impressible that the Apollo Project successfully sent and retrieved American astronauts to/from the moon in 1969.) Anything prior to this technological big bang looked nil as observed in the above figure. You may even think that the history of the world started in 1970s. Or, making great concession, you may admit that the prehistoric age for human beings in terms of material wealth began with the Industrial Revolution in England in the 18th century. And, you might not like to learn anything except iron, crude oil, electronics, computers, the Internet, and cellular phones, since the level of wealth before their emergence was virtually nil.
So, the world history is so simple: it had started its prehistorical era around the late 18th century and then the big bang came around 1970s. We have just begun our era...
But, our intellect denies this view on the world history.
Yet, how can we correct the paradigm of history based on material wealth?
(to be continued...)
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Christ Jesus told everybody, therefore including kings and emperors, to deny themselves and follow Him.
It means to deny a kingdom or an empire. And, if a king or an emperor denies himself, what must his subjects do? It is collapse of a kingdom or an empire. Then, history and a myth of such a nation will be of no use.
In this context, Christ Jesus is God, since only God can supersede any history or myths of any nation. It is so, because God Himself is history of mankind.
You had better show your respect for God by recognizing Christ Jesus as God.
(Japan today succeeded in launching an HIIA rocket to mark the 13 consecutive successful launching operations since 2005. The HIIA carried a reconnaissance satellite which weighs a few tons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oHmVhviO8&feature=related)
Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.