color illustrations, color maps, color portraits ;
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30 cm
SERIES
Series Title
1000 things you should know about
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Origins of mankind ; handy man -- Man the hunter, Neanderthals and others -- Modern humans ; cave painters -- The Stone ages ; The Bronze age -- The Iron age -- Magaliths ; Archaeology -- The first farms ; the first cities -- Mesopotamia and Sumer ; Indus civilization -- Great migrations ; the beginnings of Egypt -- Babylon -- First Chinese emperors ; Egyptian writing -- Egyptian lifestyles ; Ancient Crete -- The pharaohs -- The Olmecs and Chavins ; Aryan India -- Semites ; the Assyrians -- Oceania ; Dead Egyptians -- Persia ; Weapons of war -- Tutankhamun -- The Trojan wars ; Early Greece -- The Mayans ; Confucius -- Chinese technology -- The search for Troy ; Greek city-states -- Zhou and Qin dynasties ; famous generals -- Buddha ; Greek thinkers -- Homer ; Early Americans -- Greek art -- What people ate ; The Phoenicians -- Polynesians ; Greek gods and myths -- Alexander the Great -- The founding of Rome ; Cleopatra -- The rise of Rome ; Jesus -- The Han dynasty ; Roman towns -- The Roman Empire -- The Roman Army ; the Roman way of life -- Famous disasters ; Yamato -- The Mauryan Empire ; early North Americans -- Early Ireland -- Julius Caesar ; the Guptas -- Gauls and Franks ; early African civilisations -- The Celts ; the first Britons -- The fall of Rome ; the spread of Christianity -- The Byzantine Empire -- The Sui, Tang and song ; Barbarians -- Roman Britain ; Muhammed -- What prople wore -- Monks and monasteries ; The spread of Islam -- The Fujiwaras ; Anglo-Saxons -- Bulgars ; The caliphs -- Alfred the Great ; The Berbers -- The Vikings -- The first Russians ; Harun al-Rashid -- The Holy Roman Empire ; The Toltecs -- The Maoris ; Charlemagne -- The Magyars ; Viking voyages -- Famous villains ; Viking society -- The first English kings ; Early Scots
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Information on ancient history in small to the point pieces, over 100 illustrated topic panels on ancient history.