Abstract

The author, one of the founders of World History, is at Pittsburgh University working at the creation of an Archive of the last four centuries of World History. The database will put together different types of information (local and global) to facilitate the interpretation of world history. Scholars will learn about commercial and monetary flows, the spread of epidemics, the size of populations, growth and death rates, migrations, climate change and types of government in order to build the history of a unique and interconnected world.