History as it happened

History as it happened A map-by-map guide

Book - 2024

Watch the rise and fall of great empires and kingdoms, follow explorers of land and sea on their journeys of discovery, and learn how lucrative trade routes of spices and silk have all changed the way our world looks today. Hundreds of specially commissioned maps guide you through key moments in history, or show how things changed over time. Historical photographs help bring this history to life, while clear, bite-size text allows you to easily follow the story of humankind.

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Subjects
World history > Juvenile literature.
History > Juvenile literature.
Maps > Juvenile literature.
Children's maps.
Informational works.
Genres
Informational works
Published
New York, NY : DK Publishing 2024.
Language
English
Corporate Author
DK Publishing, Inc
Corporate Author
DK Publishing, Inc (-)
Physical Description
224 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
ISBN
9780593843789
  • Prehistory
  • Our planet's history
  • Around the world
  • Farming and the first cities
  • The last ice age
  • Africa
  • Africa today
  • Northern Africa: the land
  • People of the Nile
  • Hannibal crosses the Alps
  • Travels of Ibn Battuta
  • Sub-Saharan Africa: the land
  • The Bantu migration
  • Kingdoms and empires
  • Mansa Musa's pilgrimage
  • Scramble for Africa
  • The dawn of a new era
  • Asia
  • Asia today
  • West and central Asia: the land
  • Between the rivers
  • The first great empire
  • The successors of Muhammad
  • The Ottoman Empire
  • Israel and Palestine
  • Oil and land
  • South and southeast Asia: the land
  • The Indus River's bounty
  • The empires of early India
  • Temples and trade
  • The Mughals of India
  • Krakatau explodes
  • Shaking the British Empire
  • The Partition of India
  • A new start for southeast Asia
  • Vietnam Wars
  • North and east Asia: the land
  • Early Chinese dynasties
  • The Silk Road
  • The Devil's horsemen
  • Warlords of Korea and Japan
  • Ming and Qing China
  • Travels of Zheng He
  • Japan transformed
  • Revolutionary China
  • The Korean War
  • Europe
  • Europe today
  • Europe: the land
  • Athens versus Sparta
  • Alexander the Great
  • The rise of Rome
  • The eruption of Mount Vesuvius
  • A new Roman Empire
  • Voyages of the Vikings
  • The Father of Europe
  • The Crusades
  • Travels of Marco Polo
  • The Black Death
  • The Reconquista
  • Sailing westward
  • Crossing the world
  • Christianity splits
  • Ivan the Terrible's Russia
  • A century of change
  • The United Kingdom
  • Rise and fall of the British Empire
  • The "unsinkable" Titanic
  • Rise and fall of the USSR
  • Uniting Europe
  • The collapse of Yugoslavia
  • Oceania
  • Oceania today
  • Oceania: the land
  • First Australian peoples
  • Polynesian seafarers
  • The First Fleet
  • Convicts and colonization
  • The land of the long white cloud
  • North America
  • North America today
  • North America: the land
  • The first North Americans
  • Mesaamerican civilizations
  • Indigenous peoples and the frontier
  • The American Revolution
  • Revolt of the enslaved
  • Building the US
  • Mexico's shrinking borders
  • A house divided
  • Formation of Canada
  • The Cuban Missiie Crisis
  • South America
  • South America today
  • South America: the land
  • Civilizations of the Andes
  • Dividing the world
  • A thirst for gold
  • Setting South America free
  • Our World
  • Transatlantic slave trade
  • The Great War
  • The Arctic
  • Antarctica
  • The Endurance voyage
  • War in Europe
  • War in the Pacific
  • The Cold War
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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