Lifelines in World History: "The Ancient World", "The Medieval World", "The Early Modern World", "The Modern World"

by Berit,Ase

• ISBN13: 9780765681256
• ISBN10: 0765681250
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This lavishly illustrated full-color set is organized by the time frames that mirror the National Standards for world history for grades 6-12. An ideal supplement to all the major textbooks, it offers appealing and comprehensive biographies of history's most influential figures--both famous and infamous. Lifelines in World History features biographies of figures from Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Southwest Asia, and covers the most significant events and trends in world history. Each volume includes 15-20 biographies, and in addition to biographical information, each entry includes engaging sidebars that feature key dates, more people to know, words from their time, and cultural connections. The set also includes numerous full-color maps. Mounir A. Farah, General Editor of this set, is the highly-esteemed and celebrated senior author of World History: The Human Experience, among many other publications.

Table of Contents

Lifelines in the Ancient World

List of Illustrations

About Lifelines in World History

Alexander III, The Great

Archimedes

Ashoka the Great

Attila the Hun

Augustus Caesar

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

Cleopatra VII

Confucius

Cyrus the Great

Euclid

Herodotus

Jesus of Nazareth

Justinian I

Quetzalcoatl (Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl)

Sargon of Akkad

Shi Huangdi (Qin Shi Huangdi; Shi Huang-Ti)

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Solomon

Thutmose III

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

Lifelines in the Medieval World

List of Illustrations

About Lifelines in World History

Avicenna, (Ibn Sina)

Charlemagne

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Genghis Khan (Temujin)

Gregory I, The Great

Harun al-Rashid

Henry VIII

Hunac Ceel

Louis IX

Maimonides, Moses

Mansa Musa (Kankan Musa)

Muhammad

Murasaki Shikibu

Pachacuti

Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)

Vladimir I

William I, The Conqueror

Xuanzang (Hsuan Tsang)

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

Lifelines in the Early Modern World

List of Illustrations

About Lifelines in World History

Akbar the Great

Christina, Queen of Sweden

Columbus, Christopher

Copernicus, Nicolaus

Elizabeth I

Franklin, Benjamin

Kangxi

Leonardo da Vinci

Locke, John

Louis XIV

Luther, Martin

Moctezuma II

Muhammad I Askia

Newton, Isaac

Peter the Great

Petrarch

Suleiman the Magnificent

Zheng He

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

Lifelines in the Modern World

List of Illustrations

About Lifelines in World History

Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal

Bismarck, Otto Von

Bolivar, Simon

Castro, Fidel

Churchill, Winston

Curie, Marie Sklodowaska

Einstein, Albert

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

Hitler, Adolf

Lenin, Vladimir

Lincoln, Abraham

Mandela, Nelson

Mao Zedong

Marx, Karl

Meir, Golda

Napoleon I

Thatcher, Margaret

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index

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