So i´m currently learning to play a game called "europa universalis 4".

It motivated me to learn more about this period of time, but i realized that i lack a general Historical and Geographical knowledge. So learning something now is kind of unrelated and lacking the big picture, it feels unsatisfying and reminds me of learning "history" in my school time. I changed my schools very often and all i got was scattered information about specific dates about the Nazi´s, if at all. Since i lived in Germany this was apearantly a "MUST LEARN AND NOT REPEAT" Topic.

TL;DR So basically my question is: Is there maybe an easy way to see the human history, from origin (guess africa) till present ?

Because i saw a gif a while back that showed the whole expansion of religion´s in europe compressed in a few seconds. So i thought there must exist something similar for humans/nations OR maybe a map/site where u can adjust the year with a slider and see immediatley what the world looked like then and some background information. I tried a few things like a book written for kids (that got annoying fast obviously) or an audiobook that was so dry and long i gave up fast.

So mayb something that can inspire me for human history like neil degrasse tyson does for science (or prof dr harald lesch in germany) if that exist for history.

Just to get me an idea, a foundation i can then improve on. Sry for my ignorance.