Originally Posted by passthepotatoes
We found Story of the World a bit light, but it is a fairly safe place to start as far as being age appropriate for sensitive kids.

I agree, it really is more of a broad overview. We used it as a starting point, researching more when DS was interested.

The other thing I forgot to mention is that it does have a pretty heavy Christian emphasis in some of the chapters. If that's something that would bother you, I was able to just skip those chapters.