Absolutely everything!: a history of earth, dinosaurs, rulers, robots and other things too numerous to mention

Foreword

Nothing to something: 13.8 billion - 540 million years ago, the beginning of the universe, life, and everything

Land ahoy!: 480 million - 252 million years ago, creatures wriggle out of the seas, and forests cover the land

Dinosaurs to apes: 252 million - 6 million years ago, terrible lizards and what comes after

Hands free: 5 million - 12,000 years ago, walking apes to migrating humans

Seeds of change: 38,000 BCE - 2000 BCE, farming, writing, and trade

Nature shapes the ancient world: 3300 BCE - 1200 BCE, rivers, wind, silk, and rubber

The first religions: 30,000 BCE - 100 CE, from indigenous religions to Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Confucianism

Politics, philosophy and a calendar: 776 BCE - 200 BCE, how ancient Greeks, Maya, Nasca, and Chinese built, invented, and conquered

Christianity and Islam make their mark: 30 CE - 1000 CE, cultures collide and fuse, building the foundations of the world we know today

Inventions, climate and power: 800 - 1300, from the printed word to Magna Carta

The global Middle Ages: 1220 - 1521, rich cultures around the world

Colonialism takes off: 1469 - 1621, One person's miracle is another's disaster

Revolutions all around: 1543 - 1905, science, freedom, and robots

World at war: 1845 - 1946, when everyone was fighting everyone else

Marching towards the millennium: 1945 - 2001, the Cold War, human rights, and the dawn of the Digital Age

To be continued: 2002 - present, where we are now and what might come next

World map

Glossary.

Nothing to something (13.8 billion-450 million years ago)

Land ho! (470 mya-252 mya)

Dinosaurs (252 mya-5 mya)

Hands free (5 mya-65,000 years ago)

You and me (200,000 years ago-5000 BCE)

Civilization begins (5000-1500 BCE)

Meanwhile, in Asia (3000-200 BCE)

Rise and fall (1400 BCE-476 CE)

Meanwhile, in the Americas (1500 BCE-1530 CE)

Invention connection (570-1279 CE)

Medieval misery (476-1526 CE)

Going global (1415-1621)

Revolutions all around (1543-1905)

World at war (1845-1945)

To be continued (1945-present).