World History For Dummies 3rd Edition

History fascinates me-especially world history. Discovering how people lived, worked and played centuries or decades before my time enthralls me.

Too often we look at the past and forget that it was populated by real people with real problems, dreams, troubles and challenges.

Volumes have been written about world history. Finding a single book that encapsulates world history into a condensed timeline of key moments and events is not easy-until now.

Wiley Brand’s and author Perter Haugen’s World History For Dummies 3^rd Edition, successfully brings the past alive by filling the gaps in your mental timeline, having fun showcasing the lives of people in the past and discovering how the world wound up the way it is.

It all began a long, long time ago. Pre-history in fact. Travel back to explore the very beginning of human civilization.

Discovery the first gatherings of people and the slow, often perilous formation of great civilizations.

See how people survived and loved. Look back on great philosophical advancements, the tragedy of wars and conflicts, the formation of religions all over the globe, the birth of humanism and the rise of art, music, industry and much more.

It’s all in this book presented in a clear, concise and fact-packed journey throughout history.

This book reminds of one of my favorite instructors in college. His name was Mr. Feams and he taught Civilization 1 and 2.

Up to that point I never cared too much for history-few teenagers did or do. But, the way he presented history-he made people of the past come alive, explored societies that marveled our own and outlined events that changed the very course of mankind that pulled me in and made me a true fan of history.

It’s true what is stated, "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Years from now those in future will look back at our time and wonder what we were like, the gains and losses we went through and how we survived.

1 Corinthians 2:5 - That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.