365 Daily Reads
365 Days of World History
A Timeline of Daily Lessons from Ancient Empires to Modern Times — With 1000+ Facts and Challenges for Curious Minds
Format
Paperback
Pages
379
ISBN
979-8344988702
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A Timeline of Daily Lessons from Ancient Empires to Modern Times — With 1000+ Facts and Challenges for Curious Minds
Sold and shipped by Amazon.
Somewhere between the first stone tool and this morning's headlines sit 300,000 years of humans doing things worth knowing about. Most of us were taught almost none of it.
This book spreads the human story across a year: one page a day, five quiet minutes, in strict timeline order. January opens with footprints pressed into volcanic ash. By May, Mansa Musa's gold is unsettling Cairo. September marches through the world wars, and December asks who gets to write history at all.
Each page carries a voice from the time, a story built from checkable facts, and a challenge to the school-book version. Over 1,000 facts and myth-corrections, and every entry stands alone, so you can start on any date.
The first page of a year is a fitting place to begin with a first step. About 3.6 million years ago, on a plain in what is now northern Tanzania, two or three individuals crossed a field of damp volcanic ash. The ash dried like plaster and held their tracks. Mary Leakey's team uncovered the trail at Laetoli in 1978: a line of upright, human-looking strides left by creatures whose brains were a fraction of the size of yours.
The Laetoli walkers left no clue about their errand. One trackway shifts direction slightly, as though the walker paused and looked back over a shoulder. Three and a half million years on, that small hesitation in the ash is the most familiar thing about them.
"I was looking for a gift for my history-loving family member. The book breaks down world history into bite size chronological chunks. I bought it for a friend and then ended up keeping it!"
"Built on the same idea as a daily devotional, it is a journey through world history one day and one event at a time. What a great way to expand your education in small bites."
"Instead of long chapters, I got to learn about history in bite sized daily doses. The facts were surprising and memorable. I liked seeing how the events connected over time."
"Readers are frequently taken aback by surprising features, such as the quantity of Chinese 'knock knock' jokes etched into bone shards, in the captivating daily quizzes that follow each entry."
