The books on world history can be said to be numerous,
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On Douban alone, there are more than five hundred books of various world histories.
If you can't choose, you'll definitely see it.
So today, the book list dog recommends a book to everyone to read the first choice of world history.
To put it bluntly, you can read a book about world history, and you can only look at one book.
For in the face of this history of the world,
Any other world history is nothing but an axe.
This world history, that is, the global sales have reached 26 million copies,
And the Douban score has been stable at 9.2 for many years - "Global General History"!
Why is it so cattle?
Don't worry,
The book list dog slowly tells you three reasons why it is irreplaceable and insurmountable.
When it comes to global history, you may think of a thick suit that costs ten copies at least.
But there is only one copy of the General History of the World.
And with this book, the 3 million years of human history are clearly explained.
You look at other versions of world history,
The history of Europe is the history of Europe, and the history of East Asia is the history of East Asia, each with its own chapters and clear barriers.
But the General History of the World is different, it sees the world as an indivisible whole,
Use God's perspective to see the flow and interaction of different civilizations on earth.
It's like putting a huge globe right in front of you.
It will tell you,
When the king of ancient Babylon promulgated the Code of Hammurabi, the Indian civilization bred by the Ganges had just sprouted;
Confucius in China, Buddha in India, and Socrates in Greece can be said to be people of the same era.
Three of the greatest thinkers of antiquity at about the same time,
Issued their own questions and answers to the world;
It will also tell you that the Han Dynasty and Rome were two great civilizations that once coexisted in the world.
They have a very close geographical area and population.
And they are all plagued by nomads.
With the opening of the Silk Road, the two major civilizations intersected.
The silk of the Han Dynasty was very popular among the rich in Rome,
Roman gems and spices also appeared in Chang'an, the capital of the Han Dynasty.
The whole history of mankind began to become fluid, alive and clear, no longer fragmented and fragmented knowledge points.
It will build a well-established and clear "framework of world history" in your head,
Take you from God's perspective to overlook the rise and fall of the whole human race,
The result is a broader vision and a more flexible way of thinking!
In addition to taking you from God's perspective to overlook human civilization,
Book List Dog feels that another outstanding advantage of this book is:
It will take you through the ins and outs of history from a multi-dimensional perspective!
Thus completely elevating your horizons and subverting your thinking!
You will find that
It turns out that history is not driven by the emperors and generals who plan,
Weather, language, writing, the economy, and even a handful of dirt under your feet can be part of the great course of history.
For example,
Why ancient Greece did not exist until it was occupied by Rome,
Has not a single Greek completed the unification of Greece?
Is it because they have not been able to appear such a heroic hero as Qin Shi Huang?
No.
The biggest reason is actually because there are too many Greek mountains.
Topographic map of the Balkan Peninsula, where Greece is located
Every city-state is separated by mountains,
It's a hassle to communicate with each other.
This made the Greeks more willing to close the door and defend themselves, disobey each other, and play each other's own.
Finally collective surrender to the iron hooves of foreign nations.
Parthenon, Athens
Another example,
Why did Westerners start the Industrial Revolution and not Chinese?
There is a reason, I really can't think of a single dog to press the brain.
That's because Chinese eat rice, while Westerners eat wheat!
Because the geographical location of European countries is in the middle and high latitudes,
Rice is difficult to grow in that place,
So they can only grow wheat and eat bread.
Oil painting "The Maid Who Poured Milk"
The yield of wheat is far less than that of rice, which can be harvested three times a year!
As a result, Europeans did not have enough to eat and had small populations.
As the saying goes, if you are poor, you think differently.
As a result, Europeans were far more eager to innovate technologically than Chinese.
It was only then that a series of vigorous industrial revolutions were born in the West.
After reading this book, one of the biggest gains of the book list dog is,
What history is actually not the most important,
Above all, why is history like this.
And this book is to help you stand in a higher perspective, to re-examine the evolution of history, and to feel the complexity of history from a multi-dimensional perspective.
Learning history is no longer just about listening to stories and watching hilarity.
It becomes something that allows you to get a higher vision and a bigger pattern!
In addition to the two reasons that the above book single dog tells everyone,
There is no substitute for this book for a third reason:
The whole world is saying it's good!
The author Stavrianos is recognized as a hero of historiography, and the founder and first practitioner of the global view of history.
That is to say, before him, no one seriously studied world history as a whole.
Author Stavrianos
So the book swept the world as soon as it was launched, selling more than 25 million copies to date.
It has been reprinted more than 80 times in China alone, and the cumulative sales volume is as high as 3 million copies.
Many universities in the United States have chosen this book as the basic course textbook for their students.
Our History Department at Peking University also lists it as one of the primary reference textbooks.
Some scholars have even listed this book, along with books such as "The Analysis of Dreams", "A Brief History of Time", and "Silent Spring", as ten books that influenced the world in the 20th century.
Enough to see how influential this book is!
At the 7th reprint, a professor of international studies at Jilin University made this comment on the book:
You are not only reading history, but also understanding reality;
You're not only communicating with the past, you're also talking to reality.
And the messages in Douban are also all full of praise!
Every word is a tribute to this book!
Book list dog thinks,
The value of this book has long been above a single history book,
It has a subtle effect on broadening your pattern and enhancing your worldview!
Worthy of the reputation of the top global history!
Source: The book list is coming
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