History in Minutes

300,000 BC – 2026 eBook · PDF & EPUB

The Entire History of the World

The Empires, Wars, Civilizations, and Events That Shaped Our World

Farmers, pharaohs, empires, plagues, revolutions and the internet, told the History in Minutes way: fast, clear and in the order it happened. It starts with the first humans and ends with the world you woke up in this morning.

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Cover of The Entire History of the World, 300,000 BC – 2026, by History in Minutes

300,000 years on one timeline

Every era gets roughly equal room. The age of the pyramids gets nearly as much space as the age of steam, so you see the whole story, not just the last 300 years of it.

Told like the videos

Short chapters, plain language and the same story-first style as History in Minutes on YouTube.

Finish it in an evening

No doorstop textbook. Just the turning points that made the modern world, in the order they happened.

The whole planet in one story

India, China, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe side by side, so you can see who was doing what at the same time.

Table of contents

What's inside

  1. 1

    Before history

    The first humans, hunters, farmers and the first villages

    300,000–3500 BC
  2. 2

    Rivers and kings

    Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus and the Yellow River

    3500–1200 BC
  3. 3

    The age of big ideas

    Persia, Greece, the Buddha, Confucius and the prophets

    1200–300 BC
  4. 4

    Great empires

    Rome, Han China, the Mauryas and the Guptas

    300 BC–AD 500
  5. 5

    Faiths and caliphates

    Byzantium, the rise of Islam and Tang China

    500–1000
  6. 6

    Steppe and silk

    The Mongols, Mali, Song China and medieval Europe

    1000–1450
  7. 7

    Ships and printing presses

    Ottomans, Mughals, the Americas and a connected world

    1450–1700
  8. 8

    Revolutions

    Steam, factories, new nations and empires at their peak

    1700–1900
  9. 9

    The world at war

    Two world wars and everything in between

    1900–1945
  10. 10

    Our world

    The Cold War, independence, the internet and today

    1945–2026

Who made this

From the YouTube channel History in Minutes

History in Minutes tells the story of whole countries and civilisations in a few illustrated minutes, in videos like The ENTIRE History of India in 16 Minutes. This book takes the same approach and stretches it across the whole planet.

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Audiobook
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Language
English
Price
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Delivery
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Questions

What format is the eBook?

You get both a PDF and an EPUB. The EPUB adapts to any screen and works with Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books and Kindle (via Send to Kindle). The PDF keeps a fixed layout and is easy to print.

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Is it for kids or adults?

It's written for curious adults and teenagers. If you enjoy the videos, you'll enjoy the book.

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The whole human story, in one evening.

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