Take a journey from the Stone Age onward and compare what occurred across the globe at various moments in time. While the Greeks held the earliest Olympic Games, the Zapotec were building pyramids. Find out where it all started!

Includes index.

First cities and empires -- The age of stone -- Settling down -- The first cities -- Egypt arrives -- The age of bronze -- The age of myths -- Empires and ideas -- Empires east and west -- Roman might -- Empire falls -- Who's who -- Well I never.