A Short History of the World


Leído por Kristine Bekere

(4.3 stars; 28 reviews)

A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. The book summarises the scientific knowledge of the time regarding the history of Earth and life. It starts with its origins, goes on to explain the development of the Earth and life on Earth, reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the Cradle of Civilisation.The book ends with the outcome of the First World War, the Russian famine of 1921, and the League of Nations in 1922. In 1934 Albert Einstein recommended the book for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilisation. - Summary adopted from Wikipedia (13 hr 51 min)

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The World in Space 6:11 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The World in Time 6:14 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Beginnings of Life 6:12 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Age of Fishes 9:07 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Age of the Coal Swamps 9:39 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Age of Reptiles 8:59 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The First Birds and the First Mammals 10:08 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Age of Mammals 9:17 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Monkeys, Apes and Sub-Men 9:13 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Neanderthaler And the Rhodesian Man 9:11 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The First True Men 9:51 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Primitive Thought 10:18 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Beginnings of Cultivation 10:21 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Primitive Neolithic Civilizations 10:56 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Sumeria, Early Egypt And Writing 10:01 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Primitive Nomadic Peoples 9:21 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The First Sea-Going Peoples 11:07 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Egypt, Babylon And Assyria 14:50 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Primitive Aryans 10:37 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I 9:11 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Early History of the Jews 12:08 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Priests and Prophets in Judea 9:58 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Greeks 12:24 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Wars of the Greeks and Persians 9:24 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Splendour of Greece 8:16 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Empire of Alexander the Great 9:47 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Museum and Library at Alexandria 12:16 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Life of Gautama Buddha 12:15 Leído por Kristine Bekere
King Asoka 4:45 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Confucius and Lao Tse 12:10 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Rome Comes into History 11:53 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Rome and Carthage 9:39 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Growth of the Roman Empire 25:10 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Between Rome and China 10:30 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Common Man’s Life Under the Early Roman Empire 13:56 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Religious Developments Under the Roman Empire 14:39 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Teaching of Jesus 13:42 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Development of Doctrinal Christianity 8:35 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West 10:24 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Huns and the End of the Western Empire 12:38 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires 10:05 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Dynasties of Suy And Tang in China 4:46 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Muhammad and Islam 8:14 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Great Days of the Arabs 8:02 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Development of Latin Christendom 17:38 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion 20:38 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism 20:32 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Mongol Conquests 10:57 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans 21:06 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Reformation of the Latin Church 9:11 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Emperor Charles V 20:03 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Age of Political Experiments; of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republi… 24:41 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas 11:23 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The American War of Independence 12:04 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France 18:22 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon 10:11 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Development of Material Knowledge 20:57 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Industrial Revolution 10:25 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas 27:47 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Expansion of the United States 18:37 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe 4:14 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The New Overseas Empires of the Steamship and Railway 13:22 Leído por Kristine Bekere
European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan 11:58 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The British Empire in 1914 4:58 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Age of Armament in Europe, and the Great War of 1914-18 10:43 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Revolution and Famine in Russia 11:28 Leído por Kristine Bekere
The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World 14:37 Leído por Kristine Bekere
Chronological table 29:36 Leído por Kristine Bekere

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(3 stars)

Interesting scientific narrative read by heavy Russian accented female voice

A great summary of human history


(4 stars)

HG Wells is one of the greatest thinkers of recent times. This book is a remarkable account and he focuses on key events with perceptive analysis, however it does make for a long audio book so stamina is required! Thank you Kristine, I found your accent delightful and no impediment to my understanding.


(3.5 stars)

An interesting book (though a very English perspective in view of the title) and Wells is a great writer. The mispronunciation of some words and place names was occasionally jarring, but otherwise very well read.


(5 stars)

Interesting perspective! The accent of the reader makes it difficult to understand at times.


(5 stars)

an excellent summary of world history