How does one get a competent grasp of world history? there's so fucking much

how does one get a competent grasp of world history? there's so fucking much.

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you can't

Reading. Just. Reading. :3

History is just glorified fantasy

how does one read a history book and not immediately forget every detail after finishing it?

You can't finish an entire whale in one meal, so you have to portion it out. Where will you start? The tail, the find, the blowhole? What part of the whale are you most interested in eating first, user?
Pick a more focused section of history, read up multiple sources on it, and then work your way around it or move on to another area of interest. Nobody is going to test you on your knowledge of the extent of history, but if you contribute information about a specific stretch of history you will certainly be expected to know what you are talking about. As you read more you will fill in the gaps, and once you have read a wealth of books on a few related topics, you will require less background reading to delve into the entire surrounding time period in order to grasp the events and understandings around them

what's the blowhole of world history

Your mom

user, we are at this moment living it

Start with a general summary, then find a period you're interested and look for more detail. Once you're satisfied, move on. Rinse and repeat.

Read "Anti-Tech Revolution." It's the widest lens you can get. Like, looking at history from the context of geological time and biological evolution. Start there and then work your way in.

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>he's posting it in multiple threads
user, G-d Bless You

I disagree. Starting focused then zooming out will give greater context to the grand scheme of a period or event than beginning with the overview and scoping in. You may not begin with the context on your starting point, but that just means you'll have to learn about what preceded it and then read back through it in order to see the connections more clearly.
Starting big then going small can lead one to jump to misleading or downright false conclusions about future events (which you learned from the overview) when reading specifics, rather than the alternative of seeing the cause and effect relationship from the context of the current area you are focused on, which will aide one in understanding and empathizing with the mistakes and triumphs of the flawed men who made that history happen. You should generally view history through a historical and contextual lens instead of the modern and often judgemental lens of hindsight.

Start with the Greeks,

Seriously, classical history is like a primer for history as a whole. After the Greeks, it's all just variations on a theme.

Start with HOI4, then move on to CK2, then EU4, and finally Vic2. You will know where to go by that point. See you in a year user.

It's not going to happen overnight, you need dozens of books, podcasts, and time for all of this to sink in.
You can only do that if you genuinely like history imo.

Sigh if you must know, it involves understanding the patterns and not just the content of history. The dates and times of events, the factual details of history, are of secondary importance to a generative model explaining why those events happened.

Historical materialism, the so called marxist theory of history, is the right way to think about it even if its conclusions are mistaken. That's because it's not just accepting history as a directionless stream of unrelated events, but attempts to organize it into explanatory themes

Unironically this, I learned a lot about history from gsg
But otherwise just read books, it seems daunting at first but its really not. European history is all that matters anyway so you can safely ignore the rest.

Start with the bible.
Knowledge of history is sporadic. Here and there you read something up, and there is no definitive protagonist so you have to switch between hundreds and thousands of times and places, don't let it get you down. You may get impressions only by the whole thing and not by the parts, so read and read.

By learning regarding the three root races: their origins, their sequential miscegenation, and their biogenetically typical manifestations in sociopolitics and socioculture.

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1 volume 1100+ pages, from prehistoric times to post cold-war. anyone read this or something like it?

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If you're going to start with mythology it might as well be the Sumerian creation myth.

I recommend Fomenko for a generally accepted outline of history

thanks, didn't know that racists have such deformed heads

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