A Message of Ancient Days

by Armento, Beverly J.; Cordova, Jacqueline M.; De Alva, J. Jorge Klor; Nash, Gary B.; Ng, Franklin; Salter, Christopher L.

• ISBN13: 9780618195534
• ISBN10: 061819553X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School

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