World History

About this subject

World history looks at how people lived, traded, fought and changed one another across continents and thousands of years, from the first farmers to empires, revolutions and the modern world. Its scale is what makes it rewarding and difficult. There are many names and dates to keep track of, but school courses care even more about causes and consequences, about comparing societies and about weighing sources that disagree with each other. Seeing the connections between events is what turns a long list of facts into something you understand.

The books here offer the big picture in a readable form, tying centuries of events into a few powerful questions about how societies grow and why they change. They give you a framework that makes individual topics easier to place and remember. A tutor can help you turn that reading into exam answers: building arguments with evidence, analysing sources in the way your course expects and writing essays that explain rather than simply retell.