What’s the best book (or place) to learn about world history?I recently have a desire to learn about different things from history, such as WW2, American Revolution, among other things. But every time I want to learn about something, I find it a little difficult because I feel as though I need to know what happened before, because context is important. Perhaps I’m autistic, but that’s how it is, so I was wondering what the best book was for learning about the overall history of the world, even if it’s ridiculously generalized.
Spengler has the best overall scheme I've encountered, although his style is tedious. I'd highly recommend a geology and astronomy course at university to give some context for history. I would recommend asking why something happened and why not sooner, the causes of the causes, and what effects a thing had. I think you can do a lot of it through asking AI, and also getting books that more deeply cover topics you don't know about. I would recommend following your nose. Also going for gaps. There are advantages in being undisciplined.
>>18242070>What’s the best book (or place) to learn about world history?Not here.
>Best BookIf you have no life, like literally 0 things happening in your life rn, you can look up the Cambridge History of the World Volumes.
>>18242070I guess you'd probably want some pop history book, for instance "the penguin book of world history" is a decent example, but the wider the book the shallower it's contents will be, and really this stuff is only good for those only mildly into history or as an introduction to find what truly fascinates you - though that latter one is still a great reason to read it if that's where you're at. Maybe it'd be better for you if look at books which are about the histories of particular ideas/things rather than about specific events, periods or people, since those tend to chart the development of the whole thing and might give the context you want. For instance I recently read Ronald Hutton's the witch, which after a brief overview of how it's viewed around the world, gives a history of the ideas and mythologies and led to the development of the idea, from the earliest records from ancient middle east, through Greece and Rome and into medieval and modern Europe. With random diversions into the origins of other related mythological ideas, such as the wild hunt. Another one that jumps to mind is Medieval Maritime Warfare by Charles Stanton which (admittedly you might want to search for a similar book about ancient and classical maritime warfare) covers the development of that throughout the whole thousand year period. Whether or not those two books interest you at all, these kind of works are fairly common so you should be able to find one in the style that covers a topic that would.
>>18242070>World HistoryNo such thing. There are countless versions. Instead, study the history of your city, of your state, of your nation, then your country's neighbor, then important civilizations, important countries, etc. And everytime you study a conflict, study from both sides.
