World History For Dummies, 3rd Edition

3* I came out of school with a dismal lack of knowledge of history, both of my own country's history and world history. In the last year or so, I have been trying to rectify this and turned to this book as a starting point. Overall, it offers a very comprehensive outline of the main historical even......more

Don't let the title dissuade you: you definitely don't have to be a dummy to read it! This book offers a great overview of world history . One of its strong points is how the author demonstrates the interconnectedness of seemingly unrelated events and nuanced results of events. The book is written i......more

This is quite a fun book as it gave u an overview of the beginning of time till the present. Extra chapters with how weapon, religion , philosophy evolved and help shape history as we have known today. But of course you can't possibly cram all sides of history in one book. Whats fun about it is you......more

I read this book because I wanted to have a better understanding of the time line of history (what was going on in other parts of the world while Athens was starting democracy, etc). This book did an ok job of that. The one thing that drove me crazy was how every other page would,in the middle of......more

I learned a lot from this book. It was the number of different civilizations and steppe empires that overwhelmed me, made me realize I was, well and truly, a dummy.......more