World history in one day

Today I joined a few Shift friends and fifty other people for a seminar with the presumptious title 'The history of the world in one day'. In just four hours and five cups of coffee Evert Jan Ouweneel took us through 5,500 years of history, from the stone tablets of Mesopotamia to the globalized currency markets of the 21st century. No new facts for a historian I have to admit (except some parts of Chinese history), but Evert Jan is an excellent teacher, and it was good to see how he told this megastory and kept his audience hooked from beginning to end.