The world on the eve of the early New Age

History can be written by looking at the world from the mouse of the hole, from the mound and from the height of a bird"s flight. All three views are equally worthy and indispensable. Ideally, it would be nice for every historian to try himself in each of these genres at least once in a life. This is not always possible, but extremely useful. At each level of consideration, its specific ties chains become obvious. Separate people, their desires and passions, mistakes, successes and randomness in their lives are more visible from the hole. The look from the mound prescribes to abstract from subjective and random and look for "serious" reasons: economic processes, the struggle of social groups, political trends and ideologies. From a bird’s height, interactions and connections between the regions seem more important, the dialectic of the game of the necessary and random, unique and universal seems to be seen differently