Embark on the human odyssey. Travel from the late 1800's, an age of democratic and industrial revolutions that shaped the modern world, into our contemporary era, at time in which the human story has taken unexpected turns, some for the worse, some for the better...Imperialism in the late nineteenth century. Two world wrs. The Great Depression. The Cold War. Terrorism. Antibiotics and vaccines. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Men on the moon. The World Wide Web. The insistent spread of democracy. Fro modern times to our contemporary era- its your history, and your world. I