This book covers a lot of history... being only 1000 pages it still covers the entire history of civilization.Unfortunately, this book tries to cover too much information in too little space to allow for interesting details of the history it covers. Instead of going into detail about the causes of certain events, it basically lists them, one after another in which gets boring somewhat quickly. Many other books on historical events or subjects (most of which are not as broad in scope as this one) are much more entertaining due to the amount of insight that they bring to the subject.It is a fine book if you need a reference for general history, but not if you want to be enlightened about history.Most of what it covers you have already learned in high school. It goes into very little depth.