From the Acropolis to Zimbabwe, it's an exciting year of world history for your middle-grades students! Open students' eyes to the world and their place in it--and how history has shaped their lives. Designed specifically for middle-grades students, this new program provides built-in reading support and map skills so students can better understand the world they live in.
Essays discuss Greek and Chineese art, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dutch genre painting, Rubens, Rembrandt, art collecting, museums, and Freud's aesthetics
Potentially one of America's great reforming presidents, Johnson nevertheless experienced tragic failure, for all his aspirations, experience and skill. His constructive and reforming work was soon forgotten (and, it must be said, ...
Of around 300 BC, the Shang-Shu, or 'Book of History', is the first written text about what is called China's first dynasty, ... The Xia are said to have been founded in 2205 BC by our remarkable tamer of rivers and floods, Da Yu.
Warren. Cup. Vessel, probably found at Bittir, near Jerusalem AD 5–15 Two thousand years ago, the elite members of great empires like that of Rome were not solely concerned with power and conquest. Like all elites they also found time ...
A comprehensive history of our world, from the dawn of human history to the present day.
A bronze cat mummy shows us how highly the ancient Egyptians valued their feline companions, while a mechanical tiger toy tells the story of rising tensions between an Indian sultan and European colonizers.
These and many other key questions are answered in the History of the World, a year-by-year account of landmark events from the first humans to the present day. gt;This book allows the reader to see the history of human advancement in a ...
Timeline explores Earth from the time of the Big Bang through to the threats of climate change.
The best-selling comprehensive history of the world, from the perspective of struggling peoples throughout the ages—now with new material and a foreword by Howard Zinn From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the ...
Mr. Blainey explores the development of technology and skills, the rise of major religions, and the role of geography, considering both the larger patterns and the individual nature of history.