Tribes, Empires and Civilisations Through the Ages

by Charlotte Hurdman (Author), Daud Ali (Author), Dr Jen Green (Author), Charlotte Hurdman (Author), Dr Jen Green (Author), Daud Ali (Author), John Haywood (Introduction), et al (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $97.68

  This title focuses on how human society and lifestyle evolved, from the time of the earliest humans. The book enables the reader to compare how peoples from opposite ends of the globe gew into great civilizations - or did not - and discover why. Each of the world's major early civilizations and cultures is investigated in turn, from the dramatic changes during the Stone Age and the ancient river valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and the Nile, to the continuing cultures of the Arctic and Native American Indians. The book contains colour illustrations, including historical photographs, inside-view artworks and life-like paintings. Step-by-step projects for costumes, and model-making are all inspired by the skills of the past and pictorial timelines trace key events and inventions. The text aims to enhance British National Curriculum Key Stage 2 objectives by encouraging understanding of tribes and civilizations in cotext of time, highlighting characteristic features of different societies around the world, and introducing new ways of looking at history.