Status Updates From Istoria lumii: din preistor...

Under 100 pages to go (it’s gotten better… I think because Westad is writing the last bit)

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Bro keeps judging the worth of learning about a culture based on its “civilisation” level bruh shut up I want to learn about a culture because of its intrinsic value and how fascinating and different it all is…

The teleology and Ancient Greece circle-jerk is crazy…

The Cold war begins.

So close

Had to jump back to the beginning, been a long time since I made any progress on this because I over-highlighted and took too many notes

I’d like to thank the AI tool Speechify for letting me hear this book in Mr Beast’s voice

into early modernity.

Ngl the writing in this book is really starting to actually put me off……… I thought i would finish it by the end of summer. it’s looking like Next year. 💀

Into the Middle Ages.

Almost out of the classical age

if i’m ever to finish this mammoth i must PERSIST

i am not literate enough for this

4 pages a day I’ll be done in a year

This guy writes like a total Dick.

Yall i am trudging through this it is hard

I ran out of room for notes already

I need more maps omg

finished a 600 page book for the first time in years so my delusional ass thinks i can handle this beast…… my brain is about to get so big

Will read eventually, it's incredibly long and daunting

Finally out of BC.

This human history thing seems pretty interesting, maybe I'll take a quick skim over this

Yk humans r killing each other every generation but despite this they find a way to drink and do drugs.

To all my fans, I will finish this book over the summer

Already unlearning childhood false memories. Until now i thought Mesopotamia was just one city called Mesopotamia. Turns out the Sumerians are pretty cool. They invented beer and math , two of the best things in the world

Less than 100 pages left officially. This book just makes me excited to delve deeper into literally every topic in history, but its super brief - sometimes confusing - overviews cause it to become sloggish. These last few chapters are quite good though, maybe because I am much more familiar with the topics - but then that brief nature feels extra rough in comparison to more unfamiliar sections.

Looks like I will be finishing this on Friday, but most likely Saturday morning. I read some previous criticism on bias in the later sections, but honestly, it's been quite balanced, at least in a standard European-centric way - like it isn't dicksucking the USA or capitalism.

This book kind of just proved its point because the last chapter I just read is already very outdated.

Okay. My favourite period in history is immediately AFTER World War II.

We have finally reached modern times. My time with this book is coming to an end.

What a series of events. I think, this *may* become my favourite era in history. 1815-1918. The glorious period of European hegemony and the tragic collapse, which was only to led to more destruction.
Aesthetically and in terms of small picture history, I prefer medieval Europe by a lot; but in terms of political analysis and epic tragedies - nothing else compares.
Ah, but I love all history! It's so hard to decide!