The Rise of the Universal History of the Mediterranean World

From the 4th century BCE onwards you see a new strand of history beginning to come into play in which these historical narratives focused not on individual periods and communities but actually much broader world. Among them, Didora Sicilian writing his bibliotheca historical that sought to incorporate the works of people like Magasthenes as part of a 40-tonem endeavour to record what everyone knew about the widest possible world he could get his hands on. And indeed, it's not just in the Mediterranean world that this is happening at this time. If you go over to the other side of the world to China by the 2nd century BCE, you have the Chinese historian Summa Chan breaking with