A Message of Ancient Days,9780618195534

A Message of Ancient Days

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ISBN13: 9780618195534
ISBN10: 061819553X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School
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Table of Contents

About Your Book xii
Map and Globe Handbook
xviii
Unit 1 The World Past and Present
1(85)
Peoples of Our World
2(22)
Links with the Past
4(8)
Building on the Past
12(4)
Moving into the Future
16(8)
People and Places
24(30)
Interacting with the World
26(8)
Understanding a Map
34(8)
Putting Maps to Work
42(4)
Mapping the Past
46(8)
Learning About the Past
54(32)
Understanding History
56(8)
Examining Sources
64(7)
Examining Archaeology
71(9)
Interpreting Sources
80(6)
Unit 2 The Earliest People
86(60)
The Depths of Time
88(30)
Uncovering Clues to Our Past
90(7)
The Development of Culture
97(9)
Hunters and Gatherers
106(12)
Development of Societies
118(28)
Learning to Farm
120(7)
Living in an Early Farming Town
127(8)
Starting Cities
135(11)
Unit 3 Early Middle Eastern and North African Civilizations
146(72)
Mesopotamia
148(36)
The Land Between Two Rivers
150(6)
The Contributions of the Sumerians
156(12)
The First Empires
168(7)
New Empires
175(9)
Ancient Egypt
184(34)
The Gift of the Nile
186(5)
Life in Ancient Egypt
191(8)
The New Kingdom
199(11)
Egypt and the Nubian Kingdom of Kush
210(8)
Unit 4 Early Asian Civilizations
218(76)
Ancient India
220(34)
The Indus Valley Civilization
222(7)
Arrival of the Aryans
229(6)
Beginning of Buddhism
235(9)
The Golden Age
244(10)
Ancient China
254(40)
China's Early History
262(8)
The Age of Confucius
270(6)
A Unified China
276(5)
The Han Dynasty
281(13)
Unit 5 The Foundation of Western Ideas
294(98)
The Ancient Israelites
296(30)
Early Biblical History
298(10)
Kings, Prophets, and Priests
308(7)
Religious Developments
315(11)
The Ancient Greeks
326(34)
The Early Greeks
328(10)
Athens: A City-State
338(7)
Ancient Greek Culture
345(6)
A Tale of Two City-States
351(9)
Classical Greece
360(32)
The Golden Age of Athens
362(7)
The Peloponnesian War
369(5)
Alexander the Great and His Influence
374(9)
Contributions of the Greeks
383(9)
Unit 6 Rome: A World Power
392(95)
The Rise of Rome
394(34)
The Birth of Rome
396(10)
The Rise of the Republic
406(6)
Overseas Expansion
412(8)
Greece and Rome
420(8)
The Roman Empire
428(28)
The Early Empire
430(6)
Social Rank in the Empire
436(4)
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
440(7)
The Roman Economy
447(9)
Christianity and the Fall of Rome
456(31)
The Early Christians
458(5)
Rome and the Christians
463(8)
The Decline of Rome
471(4)
The Fall of Rome
475(12)
Time/Space Databank
487(46)
Minipedia
488(14)
Atlas
502(16)
Glossary of Geographic Terms
518(2)
Gazetteer
520(4)
Biographical Dictionary
524(5)
Glossary
529(4)
Index 533(8)
Acknowledgments 541

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