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Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0500051305
Presents the history of early human innovations, from tools and cooking utensils to early transportation vehicles and contraceptives, along with photographs, diagrams, reconstructions, and maps.
Author : Sarolta Anna Takacs,Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317458395
Designed to meet the curriculum needs of students from grades 7-12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores the history and civilizations of the ancient world from prehistory to approximately 1000 CE. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that shaped the ancient world in all areas of the globe. Each volume explores significant civilizations, personalities, cultural and social developments, and scientific achievements in its geographical area. Boxed features include Link in Time, Link in Place, Ancient Weapons, Turning Points, and Great Lives. Each volume also includes maps, timelines and illustrations; and a glossary, bibliography and indexes complete the set.
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500775684
A lively collection of the adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history. Ferdinand Magellan, Genghis Khan, Thor Heyerdahl, Amelia Earhart, and Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travelers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages—from early trips through the great port city of Alexandria to the latest journeys into space. In antiquity, we follow Alexander the Great to the Indus and Hannibal across the Alps; in medieval times, we trek beside Genghis Khan and Ibn Battuta. The Renaissance eventually led to Columbus visiting the Americas and to the circumnavigation of the world. In the following centuries, global maps are filled in by Abel Tasman, Vitus Bering, and James Cook. Journeys specifically made for scientific discoveries, most famously by Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, begin. In modern times, the ends of the earth were reached—including both poles and the world’s highest mountain. Editor Robin Hanbury-Tenison leads an incredible team of fifty-two contributors, including Robert Ballard and Ranulph Fiennes, who relate firsthand experiences with the journeys and places they describe. The Great Journeys in History chronicles the stories of bold, early travelers who explored the unexplored and who set out into the unknown, bringing alive the romance and thrill of adventure.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761365273
Describes the technology used by ancient societies to create such monumental structures as temples, pyramids, walls, arches, and bridges, including the ancient civilizations of China, Greece, Rome, India, and the Middle East.
Author : Mary B. Woods,Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761372660
Did you know . . . • Ancient people used bows to drill holes and start fires? • The ancient Chinese built a machine to detect earthquakes? •The ancient Romans operated a factory for milling grain? Machine technology is as old as human society itself. The first humans on Earth used basic machines. They used stone axes to butcher meat. They use levers to pry roots and rocks from the ground. Over the centuries, ancient peoples learned to make more complicated machines. People in the ancient Middle East devised wheels and pulleys. The ancient Chinese created wheelbarrows and bellows. The ancient Greeks built big war machines. What kinds of tools and techniques did ancient craftspeople use? Which methods worked and which didn’t? And how did ancient machines set the stage for our own modern machines? Learn more in Ancient Machine Technology.
Author : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761365259
Introduces the military tactics of ancient societies, describing the development of weapons, military strategy, defensive walls, seige warfare, guerillas, and warships in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, India, and the Middle East.
Author : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books TM
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9798765619469
Ancient civilizations accomplished great works of engineering without electricity. From the Great Wall of China to Machu Picchu, discover the machines ancient civilizations used to build and how they influenced modern machines.
Author : Scott A J Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315512884
Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure and lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? evaluates the current theories in this important topic and discusses why they offer only partial explanations of the failure of past civilizations. This engaging book offers a new theory of collapse, that of social hubris. Through an examination of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Roman, Maya, Inca, and Aztec societies, Johnson persuasively argues that hubris blinded many ancient peoples to evidence that would have allowed them to adapt, and he further considers how this has implications for contemporary societies. Comprehensive and well-written, this volume serves as an ideal text for undergraduate courses on ancient complex societies, as well as appealing to the scholar interested in societal collapse.
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123309903
From Marco Polo to Neil Armstrong, the adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history are illustrated with hundreds of evocative portraits, photographs, paintings, and maps. 320 full-color illustrations.
Author : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books TM
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9798765638941
Ancient societies built massive monuments, many of which still stand. How did ancient engineers and builders raise up the Great Wall of China or the Great Pyramids of Egypt? They often needed new materials and building techniques, both of which required studying construction technology. Around 10,000 years ago, humans began to settle in permanent cities. They needed new technologies to raise bigger houses and monuments. Many of the discoveries made by ancient engineers are still used today. From building materials such as concrete, bricks, and glass to construction machines such as ramps, archways, and sloped camber roadways, many of the buildings we walk in everyday use designs first invented in the ancient world. Learn about the ancient construction methods that laid the foundation for modern monuments, plumbing, and skyscrapers.
Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 0500510504
Describes various issues in mythology and prehistoric and ancient history, from the Garden of Eden to the effects of meteor impacts, including tombs, writing systems, and the fall of civilizations, and suggests explanations.
Author : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761365266
Describes the technology used by ancient farmers, covering the evolution of farming tools, irrigation methods, animal breeding, and the processing of crops, including the ancient civilizations of China, Greece, Rome, India, and the Middle East.
Author : Joann Fletcher
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848946330
Cleopatra the Great tells the story of a turbulent time and the extraordinary woman at its centre. She was Greek by descent – the last, and greatest, Egyptian pharaoh. But our understanding of her has been obscured by Roman propaganda, Shakespearean tragedy and Hollywood, with little attempt to tell her true story – until now. In the first biography for over thirty years, Joann Fletcher draws on a wealth of overlooked detail and the latest research to reveal Cleopatra as she truly was, from her first meeting with Julius Caesar to her legendary death by snakebite. Bringing the ancient world to life, Cleopatra the Great is full of tantalising details about the Pharaoh’s infamous banquets, her massive library, her goddess outfits, beauty regimes and hairstyles. Joann Fletcher discovers the real woman behind the myth.
Author : Donna B. McKinney
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781725341456
The ancient Greeks lived thousands of years ago. However, their discoveries about science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM have held up throughout time. Some of the ideas and inventions they dreamed up so long ago are tremendously useful to the modern world. In every field, including geometry, astronomy, zoology, and medicine, the ancient Greeks were constantly looking at their world and making important discoveries; the building blocks for science and technology in the modern age. This insightful book helps readers understand and better appreciate the vital STEM discoveries the ancient Greeks have handed down through the centuries.
