It's an ok way to get a glimpse of history. As a whole it glosses over way too much important context and often gets lost in less important minutia. Sometimes it's able to connect the important threads and trends of history to specific events, but mostly it feels fragmented and jumps around a lot. Yeah, there is a lot of history to cover in the world, yet there are probably more consistent and substantial ways to have covered it in this many pages.

For parts of history where I have more familiarity I noticed some omissions or framing that seemed unjustifiable.