/lit/ - Literature

>>17116182
>image magus no mention of the role of energy in history.
As usual.

>Rome
>Collapse
>Slight urban revival due to agricultural surplus
>Commercial revolution
>Black death
>Middle class, banking, etc. after leads to wealth increase
>Fall of Byzantium
>Euros find America
>More wealth increase, lots of wars over trade and religion
>This pattern continues until French revolution
>Wars
>Industrial revolution
>French Prussian war
>Imperialism
>WW1
>Hitler
>WW2
>Cold War
>EU and collapse of empires

>>17116206
is this better for you?

>>17116225
thanks, but i was hoping someone had some good books to recommend.

>>17116239
r/askhistorians has a great list.
If you want broad overview, read Will Durant. He's a good writer. Not super academically rigorous as he was writing pop-history in the 1930s but it's a good read. You can also read Eric Hobsbawm who covers 1700s-1900s. He's a Marxist but I found his books good anyway. Sorry I don't have any more recommendations, most of my history books are about specific periods and not overviews.

>>17116225
>he didn't start with the Greeks

>>17116308
OP asked specifically to start with Rome onwards. It’s a weird request to cut out half of a continent’s history while trying to understand an overview, but whatever.

>>17116364
ive already gathered the greeks so now i wanted the history afterwards.
>>17116297
thanks

>>17116230
Fuck, I remember that thread, anon. Godspeed.