The author of this amazing book presents the reader with world history as a creative, or creative, history of humanity. Thanks to the ability to observe, understand and create, people not only adapted to the world around them, but also actively changed it. The reader will go through the entire history of world civilizations, starting with the ancient (Sumerian, ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Persian, Jewish), feudal (Byzantine , Muslim, European, Russian, Mongolian) and ending with modern ones. The book contains a huge amount of factual material: more than a hundred biographical sketches about the most outstanding figures of world history, fifty references about the most important world innovations in the political, economic and spiritual spheres, generalizing diagrams and texts are presented historical sources, numerous stories about the relationship between men and women in different cultures. The book is richly illustrated with reproductions of paintings and photographs of the author taken during his travels. In creating a large-scale historical panorama of world development, the author relies on a wide range of sources and literature, presenting the reader with the modern level of historical science. The book is designed for a wide range of readers seeking to understand the world in which we live.