The History of the World From a Different Perspective

There are thousands of other angles you could view the history of the world from. What happens when you do that? And what new insights start to present themselves? Remember thomas coone and his history of sciencea he wants to move away from focusing on individuals like copernicus and newton and einstein in their subjectivity, their individual achievements. But is this method the end all ball way of looking at the history of science? How much are we missing by having such a rigid and narrow method of cataloguing history?