Examines, through text, illustrations, and photographs, how the geography of the European Community has influenced its social, economic, and political structure.
Describes the earliest forms of trade and commerce in the New World, explaining how early settlers traded with one another and the region's native people for goods and services.
Discusses the principal causes and events of World War I and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before, during, and after the war.
More than 100 illustrated crafts, projects, and games help recreate the culture and world of the Middle Ages, when books were handmade and read by candlelight, sundials told the hour, and going barefoot was illegal.
Describes in text and illustrations the history of Europe during the Middle Ages with emphasis on the spiritual, social, political, and cultural developments and changes.
Examines the history of the Silk Road, the name given to a series of three major trade routes and hundreds of smaller side roads by which goods were transported from China to countries and empires around the Mediterranean Sea,and discusses the importance of the Silk Road in the exchange of information and ideas.
