History: Bite-Size Facts to Make Learning Fun and Fast

by Jon Richards

Overview

Learn everything about key history topics in 60 seconds!

This book is packed with essential info from prehistory to the present day, broken down into fun, fascinating bite-size facts. Key events and individuals are clearly explained using colorful graphics and easy-to-follow text, plus easy-to-understand overviews of important historical periods. There's even a pullout wallchart to record readers' progress in each subject.

It's the ideal way to go from newcomer to know-it-all in record time!

Topics include the stone age, ancient cultures, the medieval world, the modern age, and today's world. Information includes everything from stone age tools and the Mongol empire to the Atlantic slave trade and the fight against climate change.

What is History?

History is the story of how humans evolved on this planet and then spread to almost every corner of it, developing a wide range of groups and societies. Over thousands of years, these groups have grown, shrunk, and disappeared completely, or they have come into contact with one another, sometimes violently and with disastrous consequences.

As a result, we often only get to know about one side of history-the side written by the winners. Uncovering the story of those who have been defeated usually takes a lot of painstaking research by archaeologists and historians, but it is the only way to get both sides of the story, and understand our world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783127122
Publisher:	Welbeck Publishing Group Limited
Publication date:	10/19/2021
Series:	60-Second Genius , #1
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	NC1230L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jon Richards is an award-winning author of non-fiction books for children. He specialises in visual literacy, infographics and data visualisation.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: The Prehistoric age: Evolution of modern humans; Out of Africa; Living on the move; Stone Age tools; Stone Age art; The start of farming
• Chapter 2: Ancient Cultures: The first cities; Bronze and Iron Ages; Mesopotamia; Ancient Egypt; Indus River Valley; Minoan Civilisation; Babylonia; Ancient China; The Persian Empire; Ancient Greece; Rome Maurya Empire; Gupta Empire; American civilisations; The Maya; African empires
• Chapter 3: The Medieval World: A divided empire; Crossing the Pacific; The spread of Islam; Byzantine Empire and the fall of Constantinople; North America; Vikings; The Inca; Rise of the Aztecs; The Mongol Empire; Europe in the Middle Ages; The Crusades; Plague/Black Death; Mali Empire; China; Japan; Southeast Asia
• Chapter 4: The Modern Age: European Renaissance; Europe expands; African empires; The Mughal Empire; China Ming Dynasty; The Ottoman Empire; The Scientific Revolution; Age of Enlightenment; Atlantic Slave Trade; The American Revolution; The French Revolution; The Industrial Revolution; European Empires; South American Independence; US Civil War; Women’s Rights; World War I; The Russian Revolution; The Rise of Fascism; World War II
• Chapter 5: Today’s World: The Cold War; The space race; The end of Empire; The fall of Communism; A warming planet and the Green Revolution; Recession and pandemic