Your Chronological Crash Course
All Of Human History, In Order, In Just One Day
World History 24 aims to give you the sweeping outlines of world history in a concise package. It’s not made for historians (although we hope they listen and enjoy!) but rather for anyone who finds history overwhelming and isn’t sure where to start. If you have always wished you could remember who Attila the Hun was or why Istanbul became Constantanople, this is for you!
Hour 1 | 3,300,000 - 4000 BCE
Welcome to WH24 · First Use of Stone Tools · Early Human Groups · Fire · Out of Africa 1 & 2 · Neanderthals · Oldest Instruments · Last Humans on Earth · Ice Ages & Water Levels · Bering Strait Land Bridge · Agriculture · Çatalhöyük · Copper Metallurgy · The Problems with “Civilization”
Hour 2 | 4000 - 1700 BCE
“The Five Cradles of Civilization” · Sumer and Akkad in Mesopotamia · Writing Systems · Hammurabi’s Code · Norte Chico/Caral · Ancient Egypt · How to “Unite” a Land · Indus Valley/Harappa · Xia Dynasty · Origins of Dynastic China · What is a Civilization?
Hour 3 | 1700 - 1200 BCE
The Late Bronze Age · Shang Dynasty · Origin of Chinese Characters · Legend of Atlantis · Minoans · Mycenaeans and the Minotaur · Kingdom of Kerma · Poverty Point · Pyramids in Louisiana · The Austronesian Expansion · What Makes “A People?”
Hour 4 | 1200 - 800 BCE
Bronze Age Collapse · Sea People · Oldest Surviving Melody: Hurrian Hymn No. 6 · Iron Age · Assyrian Empire · Canaan · Origins of Israel and Judah · Legend of the Lost Tribes of Israel · Vedic period · Hinduism · Olmecs · Corn
Hour 5 | 800 - 575 BCE
Bantu Expansion · Iron Working in Central and Southern Africa · Fall of Assyria · Ashurbanipal’s Library · Babylon · Siege of Jerusalem · Babylonian Captivity · Phoenicians · Carthage Founded · Invention of the Alphabet · Kingdom of Kush · 25th Dynasty of Egypt
Hour 6 | 575 - 480 BCE
Indo-European Language Family · Celts · Buddha · Buddhism · Spring and Autumn · Confucius · Contention of the Hundred Schools of Thought · Cyrus · Persian Empire · Behistun Inscription · Zoroastrianism · New Discovery in Ecuador
Welcome to WH24 · First Use of Stone Tools · Early Human Groups · Fire · Out of Africa 1 & 2 · Neanderthals · Oldest Instruments · Last Humans on Earth · Ice Ages & Water Levels · Bering Strait Land Bridge · Agriculture · Çatalhöyük · Copper Metallurgy · The Problems with “Civilization”