World History the Easy Way Volume One

If you are looking for information on a specific civilization/region/empire, this is not the book for you. On the other end of the spectrum, if you want a really quick overview or just a bare-minimum outline of the last 500 years, this is also not the book for you. HOWEVER, if you want a good intermediary guide, this book is absolutely perfect. It covers about 90% of the relevant events since the middle-ages, and considering the giant scope of the title, it really is pretty short. Some guides may be shorter, but that's obviously because they don't cover as much. Some guides may be more interesting, but its hard to do that without making a book longer. Everything is a trade-off. This is a History guide, its not spell-binding, its not a page-turner, it will take you a while to get through. But it covers a lot of ground and is very easy to understand, which I think is the main purpose of this type of guide, and I think it does what it sets out to do very well.

This book was very helpful for me because not only does it give a good summary of world history but it gives quizzes at the end which helped me to evaluate how much I learned and retained. I was able to then go back through the chapter and read over the parts that I got wrong. That helped me to study and remember the information. I loved this book so much that I am looking for the first volume in this series as well.

This book allowed me to get an introduction into world history and it helped me learn basic facts in the past. This also had a test for every chapter that was read. The test allowed me to learn more efficiently and easily. This book was very interesting and had good desciptions in most areas and it is a sure recommendation for people to read if they are having trouble in World History or if they just want to learn it for fun.