This stunning visual e-guide explores and explains the defining eras, key moments, and outstanding people that have made history.
In the same series as the New Children's Encyclopedia and DK Visual Encyclopedias of Science, Art, and Geography (among others), this brand new history encyclopedia will help children, parents, and educators grasp the events, personalities, and inventions that have changed the world. From the earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia and India to the rise of populism in the US and China's growth as a global power, this ebook gives you the facts about all major historical periods.
Illustrated with over 1,500 photographs, artifacts, and maps, History: A Visual Encyclopedia is a way in to understanding the diversity of world history, from the African kingdoms that predated colonialism and the cultures of the pre-Colombian Americas to the dynasties that have ruled China for thousands of years and the many empires that have come and gone over the centuries in Asia and Europe.
At a time in history when we are overwhelmed by information, this encyclopedia is a trustworthy e-guide to the past for young readers.
Publisher: DK Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: Trustworthy history e-guide America, Asia and Europe history
Pages: 242
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Contents
BEFORE 500 CE
Human ancestors
Out of Africa
First farmers
Working with metals
Mesopotamian civilizations
Early Japan
Ancient Egypt
Early African civilizations
Ancient Greece
Ancient monuments
Ancient India
China’s early dynasties
The Phoenicians
Steppe nomads
Ancient Maya
The Persian Empire
Celtic Europe
Leaders of the ancient world
Ancient Rome
Han China
Germanic peoples
500–1450
Medieval India
The Byzantine Empire
The spread of Christianity
The early Islamic world
Tang and Song China
Kingdoms of Southeast Asia
Cultures of North America
The shoguns of Japan
Medieval western Europe
The Vikings
Polynesian expansion
Medieval eastern Europe
African empires
Castles and fortresses
The Mongol Empire
Money through the ages
The Aztecs
The Incas
1450–1750
Ming China
Great African kingdoms
The Ottoman Empire
Korea’s Joseon Dynasty
The European Renaissance
The written word
European expansion
The Tudors
Conquest of the Americas
The Safavids
Playing games
The Reformation
The Mughal Empire
The Scientific Revolution
The Czardom of Russia
The Dutch Golden Age
Edo Japan
Colonial North America
The transatlantic slave trade
1750–1900
The European Enlightenment
Great thinkers
Qing China
Imperial Russia
The Industrial Revolution
Inventions of the Industrial Age
American independence
The colonization of Australia and the Pacific
The French Revolution
The expansion of the US
The conquest of Africa
Medical milestones
Revolution in Haiti
Latin American independence
The progress of science
The 1848 Revolutions
The Meiji Restoration
The US Civil War
The effects of colonization
1900 TO PRESENT
The New China
World War I
Global pandemics
The Russian Revolution
Women’s rights
The Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
The rise of fascism
World War II in Europe
World War II in the Pacific
South Asian independence
African independence
The Cold War
Israel and Palestine
Conflicts in the Middle East
The struggle against apartheid
The Vietnam War
The Cuban Revolution
The US Civil Rights Movement
Space exploration
Travel and transit
The Swinging Sixties
LGBTQIA+ rights
20th-century fashion
Independent Africa
Modern Latin America
The collapse of the USSR
Modern East Asia
The climate crisis
The modern Middle East
The Information Age
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
