History of the world?

Question

where can I get a broad overview of the history of mankind from the earliest of days? also how does the Century system work, like is 1,500bc longer ago than 1,400bc, is there a chart or somewhere that lays it all out for me?

Answer 1

Actually, Sooth Sayer has it backwards, 1400 BC is 100 years more recent than 1500 BC.

The century "system" just is counting both ways from the year 0 (which was 2008 years ago).  So the larger the year BC the more years before zero, the larger the year AD the closer to now (farther from zero).

Answer 2

ok..i googled all that stuff and i need more info. what exactly do you to know about the history of manking

and what do you mean by centry sysem?

Answer 3

http://www.camelotintl.com/world/index.h...

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001196.h...

Answer 4

The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant is a multi - volume set that has withstood the test of time and is 'readable'.

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Answer 5

I had to read this book for a early civilizations class in college, and it really helps.

http://www.amazon.com/I-McKay-History-Wo...

also you don't want to buy the books so here is the student website for that book

http://college.cengage.com/history/world...

Answer 6

Your question is too broad to be answered specifically.

To answer the obvious question, 1400 bc is a hundred years before 1500 bc.

More to the point, histories are some times determined by religion.

The year 2008 started with the year 0-1 following the death of Jesus.

Islam's calendar is determined by the birth of Mohamed.

Judaism is determined by the day the earth was created/or humans and is determined to last 6,000 years (current year 5758).

Buddhism, Hinduism, have other markers.

History of mankind is another marker and you may want to read a bit about anthropology.

American Indians say their history began 15-20,000 years ago.