I'd start with a big brick of a book that covers bsic history over thousands of years- then hone in on what interests you. I recommend A People's History of The World by Chris Harman, or Mankind: The Story of All of Us (the book companion to the History channel 12-part series). Warning, both books are extremely elementary, but they have massive scope. Use them as a panorama, then zoom in on what catches your eye.

Written history is interesting, but without studying the greater body of our species history through archaeology & anthropology, you'll get a lot of "how", but never really understand the foundation that laid the "why" underneath much of it.

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There is something by a guy named corol quigdly(tragedy and hope) or something like that Really though what is your objective, history spans quite a long time, records and books timelines I have been making the same attempt I find little here a little there Just try to follow the the concept of law or civilization through time you will find that most of it is not written to let you make connections I use dictionaries, encyclopedias, TIMELINES really help with wut else is going on that may be related Some people have used more than one name Oh and sometimes when it looks like there is not any thing available for a certain time look harder its there You just have to be more specific in your search. But wait thats not all!! Youll find the biggest thing you find is we been lied too and purposely mislead NO ONE BOOK WILL TELL ALL Hell if you are on the trac of something good I might even help. I will at least try to get back here and see if I can help

words and terms change through history and intellectuals have mostly been servants to power and money or died alone and penniless good luck!

>>13380

Thank you for the recommendation
. I have a long way to go considering my goals.

>>13383

I actually planned on learning a little about archeology and prehistory like the Paleolithic age. I hate to be spoon fed, but you would you recommend a book to give me a push to the right direction?

>>13400

Seems like a fantastic book, but I imagine like you already said, there is lies or incorrect information there. My goal involves at least 12 different civilizations. I've been really interested in learning all this but with so many options and so many misinformation I am at a hazy path. I guess I'll start with Persia and prehistory.

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Sorry about the delay You will have accept that to get help from me. Here is a taste I would help me and the board if you could go further and maybe narrow your focus I Would like to add Grammar, logic, rhetoric of their culture(Persia). Kind of the same idea for the Paleolithic Era but that would be too big and could be put in another thread I kind of like the idea of Persia leads to iran and Mohammed Mossadegh. Ciafags hegemony of British empire, The Dulles brothers and more


2 million-8000 BC: Old Stone Age, or Paleolithic Era This is before recorded history You must understand this is mostly THEORY In your research on this you should use Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric to find the truth that fits I find myself reevaluating things from this era to see if it fits Like a puzzle

2 million-8000 BC: Old Stone Age, or Paleolithic Era

Both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age were premetallic: no one had learned how to process copper, iron, or other metals. The Old Stone Age, represented by the rudimentary, chipped-stone tools people made, was the beginning of human culture. Any tool extends and augments human ability. A basic definition of culture states that it is characterized by the invention and systematic improvement of tools. The tools of the Old Stone Age were of the most elementary kind: axes, spearheads, and sharpened stones with cutting and scraping edges. Such tools have been found in archaeological digs of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. Although no such fossil tools have been found yet, it is believed that humans probably also made tools of wood and bone during this era. More remarkable are the cave paintings and other art created during this era. Small sculptures were common, whether for a religious or an agricultural purpose or for both. But the intricate and colorful paintings that have been found in the caves of southern France and northern Spain are amazing for their excellence of representation. These paintings, mostly of animals, are at least 18,000 years old and well-preserved.


PERSIA. , Babylonia, and Assyria were many centuries old when a vigorous people appeared on the eastern border of the ancient civilized world. They came from the grasslands of Turkestan in Central Asia with their sheep and horses. They made their home on the high mountain-walled plateau between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The newcomers called themselves Irani (Aryans) and their new homeland Irania (now Iran). They came to be called Persians because Greek geographers mistakenly named them after the province Parsa, or Persis, where their early kings had their capital. The Persians and their close relatives, the Medes, resembled the Semites, but they spoke a different language.
The Medes and Persians had many nature gods. In the 6th century BC the religious prophet Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, appeared in the northwest. According to his teachings, there was one supreme god, Ahura Mazda, and there was constant conflict between Mazda, the spirit of light and of good, and Ahriman, the spirit of darkness, or evil (see Zoroastrianism and Parsiism).

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The Medes, by the 6th century BC, had built a large empire (see Medes). They ruled the Persians to the east and the Assyrians to the west. In 550 BC Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered the Medes, then pushed on to further conquests. His warriors, both Medes and Persians, were fine horsemen, skilled with bow and arrow. They relied upon speed and sharp attack. Before heavily armored enemy troops could come close, the Persians overwhelmed them with arrows.
By conquering the Medes, King Cyrus acquired Assyria, which the Median King Cyarxes had taken in about 612 BC. Next Cyrus conquered Lydia, ruled by King Croesus (see Croesus). This victory gave him possession of the Greek seaboard cities of Asia Minor. In 539 BC proud Babylon, capital of the Chaldean Empire, surrendered without a fight. With Babylon Cyrus acquired Palestine. He allowed the Jews to return from Babylonian exile and rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. Turning eastward he spread his empire to the border of India. He was killed fighting against eastern nomads in 529 BC and was buried in a tomb he had prepared at his capital, Pasargadae. The ruins still remain. Cyrus' son Cambyses II, who ruled from 529 to 522 BC, successfully crossed the hostile Sinai Peninsula on his way to conquering Egypt in a short campaign.
Darius, a relative of Cambyses, seized the crown in 522 BC (see Darius I). Under him the empire flourished. Darius' greatest work was perfecting the system of government begun by Cyrus. The empire was divided into 20 satrapies, or provinces, each ruled over by a satrap. Officials called the king's eyes made regular visits to the satrapies and reported to the king. The satrapies furnished soldiers for the king's armies. Phoenicia, Egypt, and the Greek colonies of Asia Minor also supplied ships and sailors. Each satrap paid a fixed yearly tribute to Darius the Great.
Enormous wealth flowed into the royal treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis, Pasargadae, and Ecbatana. When the king required money, he minted gold coins. To encourage commerce Darius standardized coins, weights, and measures; built imperial highways; and completed a canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea. He demanded strict enforcement of the severe "laws of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."
Throughout his reign Darius was forced to suppress revolts in the empire. In 500 BC the Greek cities of Asia Minor rebelled. After putting down this rebellion, Darius turned on Athens to punish it for sending aid to the rebels. Beaten in the famous battle of Marathon, he prepared another expedition but died in 486 BC before it started.
Xerxes, the son of Darius, ruled from 486 to 465 BC. He was a weak and tyrannical king who began his reign by quelling rebellions in Egypt and Babylon, then gathered a huge force to overwhelm Greece. It seemed as if the mighty empire must conquer the small, disunited Greek city-states. Yet Xerxes met disaster at Salamis and Plataea, and his great army was driven back into Asia (see Persian Wars). This defeat marked the first sign of decay in the Persian Empire. Persian history for the next 125 years was filled with conspiracies, assassinations, and the revolts of subject peoples ground down by ruinous taxation. The empire was briefly united under the bloodthirsty Artaxerxes III (originally Ochus), who ruled from about 359 to 338 BC. He killed many of his relatives and was then poisoned by his own physician. His son Arses, who succeeded him, was poisoned two years later and all his children slain.
Darius III, a weakling, was on the throne when Alexander the Great of Macedon led his powerful army into Asia (see Alexander the Great). In the decisive battle of Issus (333 BC) Alexander captured the western half of the Persian Empire. Darius fled from the battlefield. He met Alexander again at Arbela (331 BC) and fled once more. Soon afterward one of Darius' own followers murdered him. Thus the ancient line of Persian kings--the Achaemenian Dynasty--came to an end and with it the Persian Empire. Alexander marched on to Persepolis.
After Alexander's death in 323 BC one of his generals, Seleucus, seized Babylon and founded the Seleucid Dynasty. Parthia, a small kingdom in northern Persia, broke away, brought Persia under its rule, and built an empire that extended from the Bolan Pass to the Euphrates River. The Parthians were nomads noted for their splendid horses. In battle they adopted the ruse of pretending to flee, then wheeling and firing a hail of arrows on their pursuers--hence the phrase, "Parthian shot." For 300 years they held off Rome.

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In AD 226 the Persians again came under a native dynasty, the Sassanids. For four centuries the Sassanids warred with Rome, with the later Byzantine Empire, and with Huns and Turks. Most of their wars ended disastrously. Outside Persia they firmly held only Babylon in the lower Tigris-Euphrates Valley.
The Sassanids upheld the Zoroastrian religion, punishing by death those who left the faith. Throughout Persia the magi, or priests, continued to guard the holy fires of Ahura Mazda. In the 3rd century, however, vigorous new religions evolved from Zoroastrianism. Mithraism revived Persia's pagan sun god, Mithras, who had been banned by Zoroaster. Manichaeism (named for its founder Manes, or Mani, the so-called "ambassador of light") sought to reconcile Zoroastrianism with Christianity in a world religion. Mithraism and Manichaeism spread from Persia to the Roman Empire, where they conflicted with Christianity.
In the 7th century Persia fell to the conquering armies of Islam. Islamic rule, under the empire of the caliphate, persisted for seven centuries (see Caliphate). It gave the Persians a wholly new religion and altered their way of living. Yet Persian culture did not die. Islamic rulers of the 'Abbasid caliphate chose Baghdad (then in Persian territory) as their seat of government. Their court took on a Persian character. The tales of the 'Arabian Nights' unfolded in the Persian region (see 'Arabian Nights').
Firdawsi, Persia's greatest poet, sang in epic verse of Persia's early kings and inspired miniaturists to make richly illuminated copies of his legends (see Firdawsi). Omar Khayyam, best known to the Western world as the author of the 'Rubaiyat', also made major contributions to astronomy and mathematics. (See also Islamic Literature; Omar Khayyam.)

Persia's Golden Age

The Seljuk Turks conquered Persia in the 11th century. In the 13th century Genghis Khan's Mongols devastated the country (see Genghis Khan). Near the end of the 14th century another Mongol horde swept over the country, led by Timur Lenk (see Timur Lenk).
At last in 1502 Persian nationalism revived under the Safavid Dynasty. The Safavids claimed descent from Muhammad's family through his son-in-law 'Ali. They split Persia from the orthodox Muslims, the Sunni, and established Shi'ism as the state religion. Under Shah 'Abbas (ruled 1588-1629), the greatest of the Safavid Dynasty, Persia reached a golden age. Art--miniature painting, carpets, tapestries, metalwork, and architecture--flourished during his reign. Isfahan, the new capital, was embellished with gardens and a great palace, the Hall of Forty Columns.
The Safavids held off the powerful Ottoman Turks, who had taken over the rule of Islam from the Arabs. But Isfahan fell in 1722 to Afghan tribesmen. After a brief restoration the Safavid Dynasty ended in 1736, when Nader Shah (ruled 1736-47) seized the throne (see Nader Shah). He freed Persia from the Afghans, Turks, and Russians and then invaded India. His brief rule was followed by the Zand Dynasty (1750-79) and the Qajar rulers (1779-1925).
In the 19th century Russia gained control over northern Persia and Great Britain became dominant in the south. Not until after World War I did the Persian nation once more revive. As a symbol of the rebirth of national feeling, the government changed the ancient name of Persia to the still more ancient name Iran. (For later history, see Iran; Khomeini; Pahlavi Dynasty.)


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>>13383

Nice one, buys. If any of you are interested, I would like to know more about Ethiopia and it's history. Here is the thread: https://7chan.org/hi/res/13475.html

hey OP, I had the exact same ambition you did, and have been going through this:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9

it's great. Exactly what I was looking for- a brief overview of all of world history and the major events of the world.

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someone already linked these on this forum earlier

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>>13575

Why the Urban Dictionary defintion?

because it helps to refer to these to remember that the classics and other things are just a bunch of retarded mental circlejerk fanboys

anything wrong with liking retarded mental circlejerking fanboys? why are you on this site? why are you on the internet at all, why are you in society?