ABSTRACT
This is an invitation to a new way of thinking about human history. Let us consider the global history of the human family in terms of a single human civilization rather than its constituent national histories or cultural hubris such as the East and the West, the North or the South. After all, international boundaries are a new phenomenon. After 30 years of bloody warfare between the Catholics and Protestants, it was the Peace of Westphalia (1648) that established international boundaries as a way of maintaining peace. But if we accept the increasing reality of a borderless world, we can gain a greater understanding of the human family’s unfinished journey. We may also obtain a perspective that is more appropriate to our own epoch of rapid globalization.
