I was more thinking of how even small things affect our lives. So even small things and seemingly unimportant conversations of our ancestors in part have led to our lives today. For instance, someone’s life today might have been totally different, but for the fact that an ancestor in 800 A.D., for example, dropped an egg and broke it. Just then, a relative walked in, and they were so annoyed with breaking the egg that they started an argument, and that changed the course of their lives, and the lives of many other people. And God is sovereign over it all.
That view is also in contrast to how we are often instructed to think in our age, in terms of “big historical events” and trends, like the fall of the Roman Empire, the Protestant Reformation, etc. etc.
In both, God is sovereign.