Final List of topics for Zine.

After reading through multiple history books of the world and human history and many hours of pulling my hair out I've finally made my list of topics for the Zine.

At first this list was 36 topics long, then I narrowed it down to 24 and then I got it to the nice number of 15 which is defiantly enough.

The list of subjects I will focus on for my Zine will be:-

- Early man ( Homo Erectus, Neanderthals, Aboriginals )

-Beginning of Art

-Ancient Egypt

-Foundation of Rome

-Greek Expansion

-Birth of Christianity

-Maya Empire

-Viking Culture

-Church Life 1000-1200 AD Europe

-Rise of an empire-Aztecs

-The Renaissance

-French Revolution

-U.S Civil War

-World War 1 + 2

-Modern World

All these topics will be interesting to look at how we as humans thought at the time ( religion, science, Lifestyle ) , what society was like and also look at the culture.

Research / Sources

These are some of the books I am using for my research, I am using a sketchbook to write down important information and sketches so I can figure out which parts I will use in my Zine.

Together these books cover the entire human history and civilisations so I will be getting a lot of my research from them. For the more well known civilisations I shall buy books specifically for that time period e.g. Egyptology.

At the moment the hardest task is figuring out what different time periods I will look at and which civilisations.

Creation / Evolution

I feel as though I should bring up the science vs religion debate as I'm sure people reading this will have their own views and opinions on both matters.

I would like to state that focusing on evolution for this project is in no way me trying to be anti-religious and I fully accept peoples views and opinions on both topics. For my project I plan on backing up all my work with scientific and historical evidence only so there is no conjecture or guess work involved and it is up to you whether you want to believe it or not.

Charles Darwin - The father of evolution.

Charles Darwin was a British naturalist who in 1859 wrote a very important book called the Origin of species. Darwin had realized that animals and plants change over long periods of time because they compete for food and mates. Only the 'best' or 'fittest' creatures survive, and those alive today the result of millions of years of evolution. This is called natural selection. Darwin caused a furore in 19th century England by applying his theories to humans; the discovery of Neanderthal fossils proved that humans are also the product of evolution.

The work of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution will greatly influence my first few pages of the zine.

Human Nature : We can explore space and split the atom, but we still have widespread slavery, racial discrimination, and injustice.

The world is nearly 6 billion years old. Yet the story of people like us, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, or modern humans, who have existed for only 100,000 years have shaped and changed the world in such massive ways in what is only a fraction of time in the history of the world.

Human nature is the concept that there is a set of inherent distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting, that all humans tend to have. I intend to explore this throughout the human time line so we can see how from the earliest man we still have similar characteristics and also how we've changed and the human mind has evolved.

Proposal.

The word parent can interpreted in many different ways, I wanted to use the word as a very abstract concept. After looking up the word parent in the dictionary it says origin and ancestor. The idea of origin got me thinking about our ancient ancestors and how we ( Homo Sapiens ) have changed so much since the earliest sign of man ( Homo Habilis ). I think it will also be interesting to show how human nature stays the same, for example there has always been war, prejudice and greed within human society and different cultures show this in their own unique ways.

For my project I would like to create a timeline showing earliest man to modern day man, highlighting the different great civilisations and how we as humans have evolved and also how culture and how we think has changed.

I think it would be best to do this as a Zine so on the one page I would write information about the people of that time along with interesting facts and research. On the other page I would show a graphic illustration of what that person may look like and the surroundings would show the location and culture etc. I would want this to be a combination of infographics and cutting edge graphic design.

A follow up to this idea would be to make A2 posters showing just the imagery so it makes a large visual timeline.

This idea would require a large amount of research from books, internet sources, history programmes and other related articles but I personally would find this incredibly interesting as ancient history and Darwinian theory has always fascinated me.