Mini Children's Reference: World History Encyclopedia

Take a remarkable journey through the history of the human race! This jam-packed reference chronicles history like never before from 4 million years ago to the present day. Explores world history, covering such topics as the ancient world, the Middle Ages, discovery and exploration, revolution and industry, and the modern world.This wonderfully presented and engagingly illustrated children's survey of world history is organized into four sections: prehistoric world, ancient world, medieval world, and the last five-hundred years. Over two hundred topics are presented as two-page spreads, and many note URLs of relevant web resources. Mini-reviews of web resources relating to each of the sections are presented at the front of the section. Many helpful illustrations and tools are included, including timelines, date lists, maps, time charts, a word list, an index, and a companion website with "Quicklinks" for the web resources listed in this book.