Catalhoyuk an ancient settlement in Anatolia would seem to have been idyllic, without temples or warriors.
So here we are, right at the beginning of human society, in a place and surrounded by the ghosts of people that we already recognise.
Undeveloped Africa | King Leopold II | Belgium | Henry Morton Stanley
After Henry Morton Stanley discovered Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium was quick to recognise the potential of it’s vast resources.
The worst excesses of the Belgian Congo ended after a campaign by Christian groups, by newspapers and outraged individuals, which was really the first ever international human rights campaign.
History of the World - Age of Industry
The race to modernise would change cultures and people all over the world. The Age of Industry would transform everything.
The old world of kings and landowners was crumbling under the force of the Industrial Revolution. The world was accelerating, and the modern age of superpowers was being born.
Assyrian Empire | Sennacherib | Lachish | Phoenicians Alphabet
Sennacherib was a blood-thirsty Assyrian, in the Palace of Nineveh, one of the first great empire builders.
The Assyrian Empire was one of the great Empires established by Sennacherib in our early, warring human society.
Andrew Marr’s The Age of Empire
As humanity has spread around the globe man has faced a deadly threat; human nature. War brings death and suffering but, it also brings progress.
Man has always conquered other men, always strived to build empires. War has had a dreadful price but that awful price has brought unimaginable progress.
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Andrew Marr narrates a fascinating story of religion and empire, war and technology in his History of the World.
The path humankind has trodden has never been smooth. We have loved, we have fought, we have engineered incredible solutions. We are amazing, but above all, we have survived.
