How Would You Write the History of the World?

ow would you write the History of the World?

The history of the world is a very broad and extremely extensive topic to cover. There are literally endless amounts of information that one could write about for a world history coarse or textbook.

Where one starts amidst the vast sea of our worlds history is a large part of where the coarse or text will go. For a coarse such as this one, based on modern world history with the emphasis on war and environmental and technical change we cannot start too far back on a timeline because otherwise we will never reach the modern history. As a starting point the middle ages works well because it gives us a slight background of the ancient worlds but is a very transitional time. Spending a short amount of time in the Middle Ages focusing mainly on the crusades and the kings of England and their reigns to get the reader or student interested.

After discussing the middle ages, we would move on the exploration and colonization of the rest of the world. This is a major point and a larger amount of time should be placed here because first off there is much to cover with the Columbus discovery of north America followed by the sea route to India. Also because these are extremely important times because they are basically the start of the western world we know today. Around the same time period we have the war of the Roses followed by the Elizabethan age in Britain. Also, since it is world history and not simply western world history, there should be some emphasis on the Ming Dynasty, which is going on at the same time in China.

Continuing on in a chronological timeline, we would move toward the British Civil war, the 30-year war followed by the seven-year war. At this time there should also be mention of the discovery of Australia, although not much time would be spent on it. The text would then move on to the American Revolution and the French Revolution, which occur in the same time period. Followed by the war or 1812...