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This title helps you find out about the Stone Age, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, the Aztec and Maya, the Incas, Ancient China and Ancient Japan. Shown in more than 3000 amazing colour photographs, illustrations, maps and timelines. Important dates, events and facts highlighted in boxes, timelines and information panels. Explore the ideas, discoveries and technology that have shaped the human race since the beginning of time. Nothing is more fascinating for children than to see and understand the way their ancestors lived - whether it is the Roman gladiatorial games in the Coliseum, Stone Age men making primitive weapons with which to hunt and bring down mammoths, Aztec and Mayan children playing some of the earliest versions of today's sports and games, or children in Ancient Greece and China wearing stunning, colourful fashions and experimenting with jewellery and make-up. With the fabulous visual material and accessible and authoritative text in this volume, children can step back in time to discover the wonders of the ancient world. There are over 120 fantastic step-by-step projects and activities to make history come alive.This is the perfect, easy-to-use volume for children to get insights into key aspects of human history.
This title explores the ancient cultures that shaped human history and civilization. It vividly portrays key periods from the past, with glimpses into art, fashion, crafts, trade and warfare. It contains inside-view artworks of palaces and humble homes, and insights into the everyday lives of monarchs, priests, farmers, traders and children of long ago. It includes 60 practical projects for historical models, costumes and recipes - construct a miniature Parthenon, don the uniform of a Roman legionary, and bake pastries from an age-old Egyptian recipe. It features an exciting and authoritative reference for home or school use by 8- to 12-year-olds. This authoritative reference and project book will enrich your knowledge and understanding of the past. Witness the progression of human civilization, and see what gave each culture - from the Stone Age to the Roman Empire - its particular identity. Over 1500 photographs and illustrations include inside-view artworks of important buildings from history, such as a Pharaoh's tomb, an ancient Greek home and a Roman bath. Projects include a model Egyptian boat, a miniature stonehenge, a Roman toga and the Greek game of knucklebones.
Travel back two million years to discover fascinating facts about the life of Stone Age people - where they lived, what they ate, and what they looked like. Marvel at the fine tools and weapons they made, and at their survival alongside creatures such as mammoths. This title features 15 easy and fun projects that enable you to re-create the past - build a shelter from clay mammoth bones, paint your own cave art, make Stone Age hunting tools such as a bow and arrow, fashion a leopard's tooth necklace, prepare a prehistoric meal, model a clay pot, and construct a miniature stonehenge. More than 380 photographs and illustrations include cross sections, a historical map and a pictorial timeline. It is ideal for home or school use for ages 8 to 12. Our earliest human ancestors were making tools from stone at least two million years ago, but our story really begins with the arrival of modern humans, called Homo sapiens sapiens, about 100,000 years ago. This fascinating volume delves into the mysteries and wonders of this distant past. From social structure, communication, hunting, the discovery of fire and types of shelter to crop-growing, crafts, clothing, the first religions and primitive art, this book explores every aspect of the people who shaped the first stages of our civilization.
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