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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,912 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,272,131 ratings — published 2011
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,191 ratings — published 2015
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 203 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,531 ratings — published 2004
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 168 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,593 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,656 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,425 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 149,097 ratings — published 1960
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 77,137 ratings — published 2002
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 121 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,157 ratings — published 1962
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,852 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 424,611 ratings — published 2003
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 118,195 ratings — published 2015
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,091 ratings — published 2011
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 96 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 12,853 ratings — published 2009
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,660 ratings — published 2007
A Little History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,113 ratings — published 1936
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,328 ratings — published 1978
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,668 ratings — published 2021
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 54,418 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 65,694 ratings — published 2019
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,213,601 ratings — published 1947
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,737 ratings — published 2004
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 90,116 ratings — published 1946
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,370,509 ratings — published 1956
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 221,118 ratings — published 2011
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,567 ratings — published 1962
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 34,017 ratings — published 2005
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,856 ratings — published 1989
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 170,234 ratings — published 2018
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 15,173 ratings — published 2001
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,921 ratings — published 1994
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 19,166 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,457 ratings — published 1987
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 162,637 ratings — published 2015
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 28,870 ratings — published 2014
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 213,628 ratings — published 2023
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,844 ratings — published 2005
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 70 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,961 ratings — published 2017
The New Penguin History of The World (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,551 ratings — published 1976
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,507 ratings — published 1987
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,948 ratings — published 2010
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,850 ratings — published 2003
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,922 ratings — published 2010
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 138,381 ratings — published 2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,839 ratings — published 2019
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,246 ratings — published 2010
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,534 ratings — published 1776
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,740 ratings — published 2003
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,119 ratings — published 2010
“The world doesn't have history, what we have is a white-washed history.”
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“South Earth Summon (Naskaristana 2800)
I am the Son of South Earth,
my spice-tolerance is superhuman,
but lies-tolerance is nonexistent -
my resilience knows no mortal limit,
but I have zero tolerance for intolerance.
I speak more languages than most northerners,
I've devoured more scriptures than most northerners,
I have assimilated more cultures and disciplines,
which is why I say, there is no north, no south,
when it comes to virtues and vices of human nature.
So I'm not saying South is better than the North,
but reparations are foundational to civilization;
enlightenment was born in the South of Earth -
math, medicine, poetry, philosophy, theology,
almost everything was invented in the South,
then the Northerners barged in,
and pretended they invented astrophysics.
I come from the other half of the world that
has been systematically reduced to footnotes
of northernized history normalized as world history,
now I am a bigger giant than
all your white giants combined,
now I speak, and you listen.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
I am the Son of South Earth,
my spice-tolerance is superhuman,
but lies-tolerance is nonexistent -
my resilience knows no mortal limit,
but I have zero tolerance for intolerance.
I speak more languages than most northerners,
I've devoured more scriptures than most northerners,
I have assimilated more cultures and disciplines,
which is why I say, there is no north, no south,
when it comes to virtues and vices of human nature.
So I'm not saying South is better than the North,
but reparations are foundational to civilization;
enlightenment was born in the South of Earth -
math, medicine, poetry, philosophy, theology,
almost everything was invented in the South,
then the Northerners barged in,
and pretended they invented astrophysics.
I come from the other half of the world that
has been systematically reduced to footnotes
of northernized history normalized as world history,
now I am a bigger giant than
all your white giants combined,
now I speak, and you listen.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
