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This is a summary of what I’ve learned over six years of self-study. It tries to answer one question – How did we get here?
The work is divided into three parts.
Part One: World History
This covers the journey of humans from the Paleolithic Era to modern times. It explains the Neolithic Revolution, the first civilizations, and major turning points like the Axial Age, the Silk Road, the Mongol Empire, the Columbian Exchange, the Gunpowder Empires, the Industrial and French Revolutions, the Berlin Conference, the World Wars, and Decolonization. It also tells the separate stories of European, Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese history.
Part Two: Thought History
This traces how humans learned to think about the world. It covers economic thought (from Adam Smith to Keynes), psychological thought (from Freud to cognitive science), cosmological thought (from Aristotle to dark energy), physical thought (from Newton to quantum mechanics), mathematical thought (from Babylon to AI), and computer thought (from algorithms to machine learning).
Part Three: Philosophical History
This follows Western philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, existentialism, utilitarianism, analytic philosophy, postmodernism, and the questions AI is raising today.
Each chapter stands alone. You can start anywhere.
This is not academic work. I am a 21-year-old college dropout (as of 2026), not a professional historian or philosopher. I have tried to be accurate, but I may be wrong in places. Read it as a starting point, not a final word.
India’s mathematical legacy is undisputed. After the Gupta “Golden Age,” the world inherited the zero and the decimal system, tools that the Islamic world refined and eventually passed to Europe, laying the groundwork for the modern world. But while Indian math traveled West to fuel the scientific revolution, Indian astronomy seemed to hit a ceiling … Read more
Long ago, during a time called Natural Philosophy (from ancient times to the 16th century), people studied the universe by mixing science, philosophy, and religion. They were less interested in the mathematical “how” of things and more in the “why” behind them. The main thinker was Aristotle. He believed the world was made of four … Read more
The majority of the people fail to realise that much of the global economic patterns and toxic social customs depend on Psychology. Plato & Descartes proposed dualism, which can indicate that we’ve our mental and bodily desires as separate (but sometimes coincides). If we assume the mind as blank at birth (proposed by Aristotle as … Read more
The Indian curriculum has one major flaw and that is, it tells us “what” but miserably fails to explain “how” and “why”. This blunder leads to a weak intellectual foundation of the general population. Students unable to bridge concepts and understand their origins. By the time I entered college, I knew about the “Marginal Utility”, … Read more
Who remembers World War..? None of us. We’ve lived an easy life. Our ancestors have gone through the horrors of imperialism, wars and nation building. We clap when our nations build nuclear facilities. We laugh when we see enemies getting collapsed in wars. But are we fighting oppressors or a complete race? Should ‘all’ citizens … Read more