history

the discipline that reconstructs and interprets the human past. history is the empirical arm of meta — it shows how knowledge, institutions, and technologies actually accumulated, transformed, and were lost

in the crystal, history spans two domains:

meta — the record of what happened, methodology of historical inquiry, periodization

socio — governance, institutions, wars, revolutions, civilization

periods in the graph

Neolithic revolution → Bronze Age → Iron Age → Renaissance → Industrial Revolution → Information Age

see also time/history for machine time, geological time for earth history

branches

political history → socio (states, wars, empire, democracy)

economic history → crypto + game (trade, markets, monetary systems)

history of science → meta (how disciplines formed and reformed)

cultural history → lang + spiri (art, religion, customs)

environmental history → geo + eco (human impact on biomes, climate)