Introduction to
                           the History Timetable
                      
                        Programmed using Hyperbook
                              by Eddy Morrison
                              
 This disk is part of our history book series, the first of which was the 
 World War 2 hyperbook - which has been a great seller and is carried as a
 standard work by most UK leading PD libraries.It has also made Amiga 
 Shopper's best 100 PD programs in the educational program.
 
 The History Timetable is designed to give an interavtive overview of
 world history - quite a task! We have kept things basic but informative
 so that the general student of history can see the general trends -
 political, military, social, science and technology, religion and the arts.
 
 With the very earliest dates in history, we have given the closest
 approximation possible. Where a (.c) appears after a date, these means that
 date is VERY uncertain at the moment.
 
 Each page has an index covering these major developments - items marked
 in WHITE are backed up by a short text article - simply click on this to
 read the article - then click on the close gadget in the text reader to
 return to the main book.
 
 All other events are in black with a prefix in front defining the character
 of that event:-
 
 These are as follows:-   (M) Military
                          (P) Political
                          (S) Scientific
                          (R) Religious/Philosophy
                          (A) Arts
                          (D) Social/daily Life
                          (H) Historical
                          
We have finished the book at 1960, mainly for reasons of space (and fatugue!)
At some future date we shall update it into the 1990's.The book covers
every MAJOR event from 5000BC to 1960AD and the start of the space race
which we thought was a suitable time to break off.

We have missed out many events but have tried to give the widest possible scope
covering everything important from wars to sport. Where there is an entry
such as Segal:"Love Story", this refers to an important book,painting or
piece of music. Our aim is to give you a wide picture of world history BUT
stimulate you into finding out say who Segal was, what was "Love Story"
about etc using more detailed sources.

Writing World History Timetable has been a real labour of love,but if we
can get just one person interested in history then it's been worth it.

Just two thoughts to finish on:
"The future is written in the past"
and "History is bunk" - Henry Ford - what he really meant was that history
AS TAUGHT was bunk and we must all look deeper for historical cause &
effect - perhaps this disk-based book will prompt YOU to look deeper....

....who knows????
 Asgard Software December 1994