Ancient worlds

The premise of this book was too good to pass up, as a love of history , it is with a certain sad resignation that we have to accept that our view of history tends to be much centered in Western Europe and Greece , but we forget to connect those worlds with what was going on at the same time in India and China. The author of this book tries to do just that , connect both worlds and link them together , in some aspects he succeeded, but in others he did not , he doesn't know how to smoothly transition from on point into another without creating an awkward space between both narratives ( for example when he talks about Christianity in Rome , then goes straight into Buddhism In china , then Zoroastrianism in Armenia without much blending .

It's pretty weird to open up to the first chapter of a book subtitled 'A Global History of Antiquity'-- having read an introduction, which lambasts all other historians for failing to write proper, global history, and declares that the book you're about to read is truly revolutionary in its approach--and find that it's about the Birth of Democracy in Athens. Uh...