Each book in this series deals with a topic in a History Study Unit at Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum. The text fills in the background to the period and gives an account of the course of events. Information is also conveyed by means of maps and diagrams. The reader is invited to analyze original source material, such as documents, illustrations and statistics, and thereby to develop appropriate skills. Focusing on Islam as a religion and a political power, this book describes its develo...
In this book which is part of a new series the young reader is encouraged to deduce the way our ancestors lived from a study of the primary evidence unearthed by archaeologists. Each title focuses on a specific period in British history. This book covers Britain under Roman occupation and describes the Roman army, the conditions in a fort on Hadrian's Wall, what a town and villa looked like, how the Romans built their roads, the development of London, the clothes the Romans wore, the food they a...
An Egyptian Town (Metropolis S.)
by Hazel Mary Martell, Scott Steadman, and Scott Steddman
Each book in this series takes the reader on a street-by-street tour of a town from a past civilisation, introducing the major buildings and typical features, and d escribing everyday life in the town. '
Cause & Effect: Ancient India (Cause & Effect: Ancient Civilizations) (Cause & Effect in History)
by Don Nardo
Presents a biographical sketch of this fourth-century Greek philosopher before focusing on his trial and conviction and its legacy.
Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Rome (Gods & Goddesses S.) (Gods and Goddesses)
by Leon Ashworth
Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (Gods & Goddesses S.) (Gods and Goddesses)
by Leon Ashworth
The Buried City of Pompeii (Historic Disasters and Mysteries)
by Kris Hirschmann
GCSE Classical Civilisation for OCR Teacher's Handbook
by James Renshaw, Sally Knights, and Paul Buckley
Handbook to accompany the students' reader following the OCR specification supporting all four units: City Life in the Classical world; Epic and Myth; Community life in the Classical world; Culture and society in the Classical world.
Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome (Passport to History)
by Rita J Markel
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Pivotal Moments in History)
by Rita J Markel
Ancient Greece for Kids - History, Art, War, Culture, Society and More Ancient Greece Encyclopedia 5th Grade Social Studies
by Baby Professor
Burrell and Connolly take us to opening night for a play by Euripides, the first Olympic Games, Alexander the Great's last battle, the rebuilding of the Acropolis, and through the whole fascinating history of ancient Greece. The Greeks covers the centuries from the Minoans to the breakup of Alexander's empire and the conquest of Greece by Rome. Especially geared for the young reader, the short, fact-filled chapters with easy-to-read text is accompanied by Connolly's richly detiled and authentic...
For more than 2,000 years, plays, poetry, movies, and television have portrayed Cleopatra as an ambitious woman who used her beauty to seduce powerful men like Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in a ruthless attempt to increase her own power and wealth. But is this the real Cleopatra or one invented by male historians anxious to discredit an intelligent, competent woman who was the last great pharaoh of Egypt? In ""Cleopatra"", the true story reveals her to be a woman who used her great intelligence...
Transportation through the Ages (Technology Through the Ages)
by Michael Woods and Mary B Woods