A World History

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Summary: Review by Idil Kozanoglu
Review: The last time I studied history was during high school and it was mostly a different part of it (let's say ancient civilization in one semester, european in another etc..) However I later on realized that there were some gaps and missing links between all these periods where I was mostly confused about the time intervals and the important events that started as a chain reaction and effected somehow all civilazations at different periods in time. This book offered me exactly what I was looking for. An overall summary of every civilization in the world history in a chronological and geographical order. Also the writer breaks the whole world history into very well organized sections with a two dimensional (time and geography) reference chart and maps at the beginning of each section. He also provides his personal summary and recaping the important events that marks the human history overall at the end of each section. I must add that he has an intense knowledge and background in every civilization and has a very objective point of view. Overall I recommend this book to everybody who wants to know a little bit more about all the cultures that has affected the human civilization (and I must say that we are not always thought objectively at high school where some bias can be observed about our own culture or civilazation that is thought by our people versus an outsider looking at it).