Combining text with photographs and illustrations, this book provides children with a global view of history, from the creation of the Earth to the beginning of the 21st century. It also includes hundreds of web site addresses for further research. It features easy access to Web sites and free downloadable pictures and maps with test covering events from the Big Bang to the dawn of the 21st century.
Author(s): Bingham, Jane
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd (27 October 2000)
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 424
City: Tulsa, Okla
Prehistoric time -- What are fossils? -- Clues from fossils -- Story of life -- Birth of the earth -- Changing world -- Beginning of life -- SHells and skeletons -- Crowded seas -- First fish -- Life on land -- Fish out of water -- Swamps and forests -- What are reptiles? -- Early reptiles -- Rise of the reptiles -- Meat-eating monsters -- Gentle giants -- Beaks and crests -- Horns, clubs and spikes -- Reptiles of the seas -- Flying reptiles -- First bird -- Death of the dinosaurs -- First mammals -- Mammals with pouches -- Rise of the mammals -- Hunters and scavengers -- Plant-eaters' problems -- Horse's tale -- Animals of South America -- Elephant's story -- Animals of the ice age -- Apes and monkeys -- Southern apes -- Tool-makers -- First modern people -- New worlds -- Mammoth-hunters -- First artist -- From hunting to farming -- Ancient world: Looking at the ancient world -- Ancient world internet links -- First farmers -- First towns -- First civilization -- Crafts and trade -- Kings and war -- Farmers of the Nile Valley -- Mummies and pyramids -- Cities of the Indus Valley -- Europe's first villages -- Monument builders -- Palaces and legends -- Life on Crete -- Palaces and tombs -- Warriors and traders -- Empire of Hammurabi -- Hittite empire -- Egyptian empire -- Temples and gods -- Life at home -- People of Canaan -- Raiders of the Mediterranean -- Hebrew kingdoms -- Traders from Phoenicia -- Assyrians at war -- Assyrians at home -- Conquerors of North Africa -- Cities of East Africa -- Kingdoms of West Africa -- Conquerors of Northern India -- Kingdoms of Southern India -- Kingdoms of Southeast Asia -- Dynasties of China -- Land of the samurai -- Explorers and sailors -- People of the Pacific -- Native North Americans -- Aztec empire -- Maya and the Toltecs -- Empires of the Andes -- Artists of Italy -- Ideas and inventions -- Voyages of discovery -- Last 500 years: Looking at the last 500 years -- Last 500 years internet links -- Exploring the world -- Ottoman empire -- Mogul empire -- Catholics and protestants -- Elizabethan England -- Kings, cavaliers and roundheads -- Power of the Habsburgs -- Rise of the Dutch -- France and the Sun King -- British in India -- American revolution -- French revolution -- Empire of Napoleon -- Changes in farming -- Industrial revolution -- Life in the new towns -- Year of revolutions -- New nations -- Revolutions in South America -- Scramble for Africa -- American Civil War -- Growth of the USA -- Ming and the Ch'ing -- Changes in China -- Changes in Japan -- First World War -- Russian revolution -- Stalin's Soviet Union -- People's republic -- Good times, bad time -- Rise of Fascism -- Europe at war -- World at war -- From colonies to countries -- War in the Middle East -- Cold War -- Space race -- Fall of Communism -- Rights for all -- Sound and pictures -- Our polluted planet
