The Concept of History

• The first concept of history is that it is linear.
• The second concept of history is cyclic history
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel did not look at history as linear or cyclical. Thesis plus antithesis equals Synthesis. Basically, Event one plus event two equals result.
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Hegelian Theory of History
Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis
Please complete another layer of the chart.
I
Event 1: John, strongest kid in class, doesn't tie his shoes + Event 2: John picks on group of kids, bullying them.
Event 3: = John chases the kids, but slips out of his shoe.
II
Event 1: John sprains his ankle. + Event 2: John gets jumped on the way home from school.
Event 3: His parents take him to Hospital
III
Event 1: They ask him what happened + Event 2: He lies about his bully behaviors and says he gets picked on
Event 3: His parents go to school administrators accusing them of not carefully watching the students.

The fourth concept of theory is vortexual history. Which is the theory of time starting big then small then big again. Ex. Rome started small, then grew into an empire, then fell, then Europe was in the dark ages, then went through the Renaissance.