jumpingjacktrash:

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anotherjadedwriter:

anotherjadedwriter:

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

Yeah! Like, a chronological history atlas. Each chapter covers 100 years or whatever (probably longer periods the farther back you go), and the start of each chapter is a world map, with brief summaries of all the stuff going on, with page numbers to turn to the relevant section. So you could read Egypt’s sections in each chapter only, and get a decent overview of the history of Egypt, or read each chapter wholly and get a sense of what was going on in the world/on a given continent or whatever.

There would have to be careful organization and good writing to help the reader keep track of people and civilizations that span multiple chapters, so that reading about the Roman Empire in the 100′s BC doesn’t feel totally out of context, and especially for groups of people that moved around a bunch. Probably would be done with footnotes, like, ‘hey, last time we saw these guys, they were over here doing this, see section (page number)’.

Ideally, it would cover political/traditional history (wars, important people, etc.) technological history, and social history. So not only do you know what was going on in China when Augustus was emperor, you also have an idea about how the average Roman or Chinese person lived at that time.

That would be such a huge project and would involve so many scholars but it would be SO COOL

WAIT MY DUDE I FOUND IT

@anotherjadedwriter

https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-World-History-Patrick-OBrien/dp/0199746532

Atlas of World History! Oxford is on top of this shit! $22!!

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