Anything omitted?

I too thought it was truly and thoroughly well executed, depicting important turning points, important periods, characters or aspects in the chronology of human history.

Human history can easily be mistranslated into only rulers, empires and war. This show though, is well balanced between war, technology, art, science, philosophy, spirituality etc.

All mayor religions getting their share of time, perhaps Hinduism and polytheism could have gotten a larger part though. I liked the fact that the show viewed spirituality and religion as a transitional force inspiring and superseding. Perhaps they could have stressed this even more - that such beliefs as Zoroastrianism, among others, had its impact on Judaism, which had an impact on Christianity and later Islam.

All the ancient "important" civilizations got mentioned. However, Babylon, Sumer, Etruscans, Harappan, Hittites, Mycenaeans among others, was not.

But then, when doing a series like this, you have to compromise, you cannot include it all. They could have made it a 10 episode series perhaps, instead of 8.

The Ayoreo indians in the beginning and end was a very intelligent method of envelope human advancements and its achievements.