1000 things you should know about ancient history by Farndon, John, Tames, Richard instant download

1000 things you should know about ancient history by Farndon, John, Tames, Richard instant download

61 pages : 31 cm, Introduction to ancient history considers many ancient cultures, contains many colorful illustrations and is presented in an engaging format, Includes index, Originally published by Miles Kelly Publishing in 2000, \"If you like your information served up in bite-size pieces, you will feast on '1000 things you should know.' There are 100 illustrated topic panels on ancient history and each panel contains 10 key facts ...\"--Page 4 of cover, Origins of mankind; handyman -- Man, the hunter; later hunters; modern humans; cave painters -- Stone Ages; Bronze Age -- Iron Age -- Megaliths; archeology -- First farms; first cities -- \"Between rivers\"; indus civilization -- Great migrations; beginnings of Egypt -- Babylon -- Early China; Egyptian writing -- Egyptian lifestyles; ancient crete -- Pharaohs -- Olmecs and Chavins; Aryan India -- Semites; Assyrians -- Oceania; Egyptian afterlife -- Persia; weapons of war -- Tutankhamun -- Trojan Wars; Early Greece -- Mayans; Confucius -- Chinese technology -- Search for Troy; Greek city-states -- Zhou and Qin dynasties; famous generals -- Buddha; Greek thinkers -- Homer; early Americans -- Greek art -- What people ate; Phoenicians -- Polynesians; Greek mythology -- Alexander the Great -- Founding of Rome; Cleopatra -- Rome on the rise; Jesus -- Han dynasty; Roman towns -- Roman Empire -- Roman army; Roman way of life -- Famous disasters; Yamato -- Mauryan Empire; early North Americans -- Early Irish -- Julius Caesar; Guptas -- Gauls and Franks; Early Africa -- Celts; first Britons -- Fall of Rome; early Christians -- Byzantine Empire -- Sui, Tang, and Song; Barbarians -- Roman Britain; Muhammed -- What people wore -- Monks and monasteries; spread of Islam -- Fujiwaras; Anglo-Saxons -- Bulgars; Caliphs -- Alfred the Great; Berbers -- Vikings -- First Russians; Harun al-Rashid -- Holy Roman Empire; Toltecs -- Maoris; Charlemagne -- Magyars; Viking voyages -- Famous villains; Viking society -- Early English kings;…