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This book tells the story of human civilisation as a series of historical periods, from Prehistory to the present day, describing the way each evolved into the next. In so doing, it explains the reasons behind what happened in each period, in terms of their contribution to the whole. It describes the way the ideas process evolves along with society, and explains the myths, religions and philosophical ideas which developed in the Ancient world, and the way its great empires appeared. Then, according to new technology and principles, how the events of the Middle Ages led to the rediscovery of the Americas and took us into the Modern periods, where the industrial revolution gave rise to the Middle Classes, and a new type of politics featured more representative forms of government. However, after two world wars which redefined the era, Postmodernity emerged as a term for the structure of Cold War society, which gave rise to the success of digital technology, but also led to the new problem of terrorism. Hence, many questions have arisen over the direction of human society, how it has evolved out of history, and how we address its issues. What type of problems can we solve at each stage? Perhaps with computers we are now able to analyse data in a way which was not possible before and this will lead to the next era.

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Neil Pitts was born in Allbrook, Hampshire, attended King's School and Peter Symonds College in Winchester, Eastleigh College, the University of Leeds, and graduated from the University of Winchester in the Social Sciences. Since then, he has written a series of articles for Eurasian Perspective magazine, a book on the DWP Work Programme ('A Day in the Life of John Stuart Hill'), and given interviews with THA Talks, the Alan Cox' 'Understanding Spirit' and 'Sunday Morning Spiritual' radio shows, and a public talk on the evolution of the world order with Theo-Humanist Arts in London.

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