Told like the videos
Short chapters, plain language and the same story-first style as History in Minutes on YouTube.
300,000 BC – 2026 eBook · PDF & EPUB
The Entire History of the World
The Empires, Wars, Civilizations, and Events That Shaped Our World
Farmers, pharaohs, empires, plagues, revolutions and the internet, told the History in Minutes way: fast, clear and in the order it happened. It starts with the first humans and ends with the world you woke up in this morning.
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300,000 years on one timeline
The marks show where each era begins in the book. The first 300,000 years fill the opening chapter; most of the book is spent on the last 5,000 years, where the written records are.
Why this book
Finish it in an evening
No doorstop textbook. Just the turning points that made the modern world, in the order they happened.
The whole planet in one story
India, China, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe side by side, so you can see who was doing what at the same time.
Table of contents
What's inside
- 1300,000–3300 BC
Before Civilization
Our species in Africa, the Ice Age, the first farmers and the first towns
- 23300–1000 BC
The First Great Civilizations
Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus cities and the Bronze Age collapse
- 31000 BC–AD 500
The Age of Ancient Empires
Assyria, Persia, Greece, Ashoka’s India, Han China and Rome
- 4AD 500–1453
The Medieval World
Byzantium, the rise of Islam, Mali, the Vikings, Song China and the Mongols
- 51450–1700
The Age of Exploration
Ocean voyages, the fall of the Aztecs and Inca, the slave trade and Asia’s great empires
- 61543–1850
Revolutions That Changed Everything
Science, the Enlightenment, and revolutions in America, France, Haiti and Latin America
- 71750–1914
The Age of Empires and Industry
Steam and factories, mass migration, the Scramble for Africa and Japan’s rise
- 81914–1945
The World Wars
Two world wars, the 1918 flu, the Holocaust and the atomic bomb
- 91945–1991
The Cold War and a Divided Planet
The Iron Curtain, the end of empires, the nuclear brink and the fall of the USSR
- 101991–2026
How We Arrived Here
The internet, a connected world, new wars and the world right now
Every chapter ends with Why It Still Matters and its own timeline. At the back: a world history timeline, essential concepts, further reading and source notes.
Who made this
From the YouTube channel History in Minutes
History in Minutes tells the story of whole countries and civilisations in a few illustrated minutes, in videos like The ENTIRE History of India in 16 Minutes. This book takes the same approach and stretches it across the whole planet.
Full book detailsWatch the channel on YouTube
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- Audiobook
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- Language
- English
- Price
- $9.99, one-time
- Delivery
- Download link by email after checkout
Questions
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The whole human story, in one evening.
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