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Title:
The Usborne Internet-linked encyclopedia of world history / Jane Bingham ... [et al.].
Author:
Bingham, Jane, 1941-
ISBN:
9780746041680
Publication Information:
Tulsa, Okla : EDC ; London : Usborne, c2001, c2000.
Physical Description:
415 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
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.
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