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Lord0fHats t1_j7lni9j wrote

Susan Wise Baur attempted to do this in a trilogy; The History of the World. It has three volumes, and while it is a world history it's coverage of east Asia, Africa, and the Americas is lacking. It is however, probably the most condensed work to really try and tackle the entire world and tackle it without completely botching the effort.

Understand that many books cover a few hundred years of 1 place.

Covering the entire history of the entire planet is... It's a tall order. You won't find any work that does it excellently. Most of those that do exist suffer in fully accounting for Africa and the pre-Columbian Americas, which aren't helped by the lack of historical records for these places.

Historians unfortunately don't talk to archeologists as often as we should.

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Abject_Ad1879 t1_j7nkkr9 wrote

Just finished this series on Audible. Very good, fairly comprehensive and you will pick up a lot of history in oft neglected regions in university level History of Civilization courses. Broad overviews of Japan, China and Korea were enlightening.

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