The History of the world

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The history of the world is the story of events and people that formed the modern world. Reaching far back in time, this story explains how people from the past learned to use the Earth’s resources to survive. How people created local cultures and how they created civilizations, and how these civilizations influenced another and sometimes fought one another. History of the world looks back at the development of great ideas in government, religion, and the arts.

There are four major stages of humanity march from prehistory to our modern times and these four major stages are:

Ancient civilization (c 3500 B.C. – 500 A.D.). This is the period before civilization even existed, to the days of prehistory. It follows people’s early steps toward civilization and their first successes beginning in 3500 B.C., the start of ancient times.

There are four earliest civilizations: ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus, and Shang China. Then the emergence of the Persian Empire and the civilizations circling the Mediterranean Sea. Including the wondrous achievements of ancient Greece and Rome. Into the East where the empires of ancient India and China found their Western counterparts.

Civilizations throughout the world (c 500 A.D. – 1500 A.D.). The year 500 A.D. lead in a millennium known as the Middle Ages. Although the name was to describe a phase in European history, it is a period of time for history in different parts of the world as well. This period explore the growth of civilization in the Middle East and linking the spread of the dynamic Islamic civilization. From there, it moves forward of developments in other parts of the world, such as the sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas, where civilizations developed in isolation.

Then back to India and China, looking back at their powerful influence on the development of civilizations in different parts of Asia. Lastly, the Rome’s empire is explored, as well as the Byzantine Empire and the medieval Europe walking into the Middle Ages.

Civilization evolution (1500-1900). In the last two centuries of the Middle Ages, the world began to take on its modern look, started by the Renaissance in Europe, it was a blast of creativity and art that changed the world forever. All these changes developed the reorganization in religion, world exploration and discovery. As well as the beginning of European colonization throughout the world, the progress of modern Western government, and the Industrial Revolution throughout Europe.

Throughout this period, the distant parts of the world came into contact like never before, altering Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australasia.

The 20th century (1900 to the present). This era displays the disorder and achievement that the world has went through in its most recent past. How the world embed in world wars, not once but twice, in World War I and World War II. The chaos that came out of World War I, which helped plugged the world into World War II, and later threatened to foment World War III.

Then how nationalist movements across the world freed colonized people on all continents to establish new and independent nations. Also, the start of a new era, by citizens demanding democracy and economic opportunity. With conclusions by bringing the story of civilization up to date, 5500 years after it began.