Download or read book UNLOCKING ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unlocking Ancient Civilizations Set written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how people in early civilizations went about their daily lives? How did they find food to feed their families? What did they do for fun? These engaging volumes unlock the mysteries behind ancient civilizations, such as the Maya, Incas, Mesopotamians, and inhabitants of the Indus Valley. Readers will be introduced to these civilizations through detailed text that allows them to compare and contrast these different cultures and to draw parallels to the modern world. These social studies curriculum topics are enhanced through vibrant full-color photographs, informational fact boxes, detailed timelines, and helpful sidebars. Features include: Accessible maps expand readers' understanding of geography and give them a clear picture of the ancient world. Carefully chosen topics introduce readers to a variety of ancient civilizations to encourage an appreciation for diversity. Detailed photographs of artifacts, ruins, and other physical evidence left behind by ancient civilizations give readers a deeper understanding of history.
Download or read book Unlocking Ancient Civilizations Sets 1 2 written by and published by Kidhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are introduced to the ancient civilizations that shaped the world as we know it today as they explore this fresh and fact-filled look at history. Through age-appropriate text, they are transported to many destinations around the world to learn about the culture, customs, and traditions of various civilizations of the past. Some of these civilizations include the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Maya, Incas, and Mesopotamians. In addition, readers gain more insight through detailed fact boxes, engaging sidebars, and bright, full-color photographs. Features include: Detailed timelines present a creative way to look at the most important events in ancient history. Colorful maps help readers develop essential geography skills. Detailed text enhances social studies curriculum topics and fosters a deeper appreciation for history.
Download or read book Unlocking Ancient Civilizations Set written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient civilizations that developed in Greece, Rome, Egypt, and China still hold great value for us today. For example, if you like watching the Olympic Games, you have the ancient Greeks to thank for that major world sporting event! Readers discover this and other exciting and unique aspects of ancient civilizations that helped shape the modern world. The informative text is presented in a dynamic way, with full-color photographs, as well as fact boxes and sidebars to provide additional information about life in ancient times. Readers are sure to enjoy this engaging approach to common social studies curriculum topics.
Download or read book The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World written by Brian M. Fagan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes various issues in mythology and prehistoric and ancient history, from the Garden of Eden to the effects of meteor impacts, including tombs, writing systems, and the fall of civilizations, and suggests explanations.
Download or read book Unlocking Ancient Civilizations written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient civilizations that developed in Greece, Rome, Egypt, and China still hold great value for us today. For example, if you like watching the Olympic Games, you have the ancient Greeks to thank for that major world sporting event! Readers discover this and other exciting and unique aspects of ancient civilizations that helped shape the modern world. The informative text is presented in a dynamic way, with full-color photographs, as well as fact boxes and sidebars to provide additional information about life in ancient times. Readers are sure to enjoy this engaging approach to common social studies curriculum topics.
Download or read book Unlocking Ancient Civilizations Set written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient civilizations that developed in Greece, Rome, Egypt, and China still hold great value for us today. For example, if you like watching the Olympic Games, you have the ancient Greeks to thank for that major world sporting event! Readers discover this and other exciting and unique aspects of ancient civilizations that helped shape the modern world. The informative text is presented in a dynamic way, with full-color photographs, as well as fact boxes and sidebars to provide additional information about life in ancient times. Readers are sure to enjoy this engaging approach to common social studies curriculum topics.
Download or read book Ancient Egypt written by George Cottrell and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was more to life in ancient Egypt than building pyramids and mummifying bodies. Readers explore the complex and unique civilization that developed in ancient Egypt with a strong focus on the most exciting aspects of this common social studies curriculum topic. Engaging and informative text is presented in a fresh and fun way, featuring sidebars and fact boxes brimming with information about this important civilization. Detailed maps and colorful photographs are included to enhance readers’ experience of journeying into the past. Readers also discover the contributions made by ancient Egyptians that continue to impact our lives in the present.
Download or read book The Atlantis Blueprint written by Colin Wilson and published by Delta. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding blend of history and science, scholarship and speculation, this landmark work presents startling new evidence that traces archaeology's most enduring mysteries back to the lost civilization of Atlantis.... The Great Pyramid. Stonehenge. Machu Picchu. For centuries, these and other sacred sites have inspired wonder among those who ponder their origins. Conventional science tells us they were constructed by local peoples working with the primitive tools of a fledgling civilization. But these megaliths nonetheless continue to attract pilgrims, scholars, and adventurers drawn by the possibility that their true spiritual and technological secrets remain hidden. Who could have built these elaborate monuments? How did they do it? And what were their incomprehensible efforts and sacrifices designed to accomplish? Now comes a revolutionary theory that connects these mysteries to reveal a hidden global pattern -- the ancient work of an advanced civilization whose warnings of planetary cataclysm now reverberate across one hundred millennia. International bestselling author Colin Wilson and Canadian researcher Rand Flem-Ath join forces to share startling evidence of a fiercely intelligent society dating back as much as 100,000 years -- one that sailed the oceans of the world, building monuments to preserve and communicate its remarkable wisdom. The Atlantis Blueprint is their term for a sophisticated network of connections between these sacred sites that they trace to Atlantis: a sophisticated maritime society that charted the globe from its home base in Antarctica ... until it was obliterated by the devastating global changes it anticipated but could not escape. Here is adventure to realms beyond our imaginings ... to shifting poles, changing latitudes ... into the world of ancient mariners who recharted the globe ... to astonishing discoveries about our ancestors. Here are the great mysteries ... the incredibly complex geography of the Temple of Luxor ... the startling sophistication of Egyptian science and math ... and tantalizing similarities among the Hebrew, Greek, and Mayan alphabets to the Chinese lunar zodiac. The Atlantis Blueprint opens up a Pandora's box of ancient mysteries, lost worlds, and millennial riddles. It is a story as controversial, fascinating, dangerous -- and inspiring -- as any ever told.
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations written by Dr. Brian Fagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on many avenues of inquiry: archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and on both historical and ethnohistorical records; Ancient Civilizations, 3/e provides a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and a brief summary of the way in which they were discovered.
Download or read book Ancient Civilizations of the World written by Denny Rose & Rowan Allen and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 5,000 years ago the first urban societies developed laying the foundations for the first civilizations. Nearly all civilizations share the same few features- they have abundant food surpluses, contained cities, political bureaucracies, armies, defined religious and social hierarchies and long distance trading. Ancient Egyptian culture flourished between c. 5500 BCE with the rise of technology (as evidenced in the glass-work of faience) and 30 BCE with the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt. It is famous today for the great monuments which celebrated the triumphs of the rulers and honored the gods of the land. The culture is often misunderstood as having been obsessed with death but, had this been so, it is unlikely it would have made the significant impression it did on other ancient cultures such as Greece and Rome. Neolithic means "e;new stone"e;, even though agriculture was the crowning achievement of the period. Civilizations started out small. Agriculture at first tended to tie only small groups together. These groups also all settled along rivers, important as a reliable and predictable source of water. As time passed, families usually worked the same plot of land over successive generations, leading to the concept of ownership. Ancient mortars and grinding tools unearthed in a large mound in the Zagros Mountains of Iran reveal that people were grinding wheat and barley about 11,000 years ago. Grass pea, wild wheat, wild barley, and lentils were found throughout the site, including some of the earliest known samples. This was much further east than most sites known for early agriculture. This book furnishes with utmost facility to all classes of readers, the needed information on ancient civilization. The unusual variety of the subject makes this a work of endless fascination.
Download or read book Civilizations written by Jane McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilizations takes the reader forward from the earliest days of human settlement to the civilizations of the New World overthrown by the Spanish Conquistadors.
Download or read book How to Unlock the Secrets Enigmas and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt and Other Old Civilizations written by Anna Mancini and published by BUENOS BOOKS AMERICA LLC. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to unlock the secrets, enigmas, and mysteries of Ancient Egypt and other old civilizations I realized while I was researching Maat, the ancient goddess of justice, how hard it was for Egyptologists to understand most of the ancient Egyptian artifacts only with their conscious mind. Our modern mental structure bars us from entering and comprehending the logic of ancient peoples. The difference in understanding the world is why so many aspects of ancient cultures remain enigmatic and strange, even for the most intelligent modern scholars. The ancient people possessed a much better sense of the energies of life and nature than modern man does. These ancients explored the laws and properties of the intangible world and its action upon the material world. They gained valuable knowledge that has been preserved in their archeological remains as well as in their archaic legal systems. This type of knowledge was often rendered in symbolic dream-like language and images that modern scholars are not trained to understand. Moreover, even when this knowledge is rendered in remarkably clear language, how can one fully understand what one has never experienced? It is when we dream that we come closer to the mental universe of ancient peoples. While dreaming, modern man becomes like the ancients-aware and concerned about life-energy, a capacity modern man has now lost in his waking state. Through learning a unique technique to decipher their dreams, modern scholars would be enabled to understand more fully and perfectly how ancient people perceived the world around them differently. In this book, you will find an explanation of the technique I teach in my workshops, which is based on more than 20 years of personal research of ancient legal systems and the connections between dreams and reality. My approach is completely different from and much more practical than other techniques regarding dreams. This teaching would be of great help and benefit to all scholars and intelligent people who endeavor to advance our understanding of the ancient Egyptian civilization and of other ancient worlds. Anna Mancini Ph. D www.amancini.com
Download or read book Civilizations of Ancient Iraq written by Benjamin R. Foster and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the subject. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of millennia--from the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the Persians, Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. Ancient Iraq was home to remarkable achievements. One of the birthplaces of civilization, it saw the world's earliest cities and empires, writing and literature, science and mathematics, monumental art, and innumerable other innovations. Civilizations of Ancient Iraq gives special attention to these milestones, as well as to political, social, and economic history. And because archaeology is the source of almost everything we know about ancient Iraq, the book includes an epilogue on the discovery and fate of its antiquities. Compelling and timely, Civilizations of Ancient Iraq is an essential guide to understanding Mesopotamia's central role in the development of human culture.
Download or read book Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail written by Scott A J Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure and lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? evaluates the current theories in this important topic and discusses why they offer only partial explanations of the failure of past civilizations. This engaging book offers a new theory of collapse, that of social hubris. Through an examination of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Roman, Maya, Inca, and Aztec societies, Johnson persuasively argues that hubris blinded many ancient peoples to evidence that would have allowed them to adapt, and he further considers how this has implications for contemporary societies. Comprehensive and well-written, this volume serves as an ideal text for undergraduate courses on ancient complex societies, as well as appealing to the scholar interested in societal collapse.
Download or read book The Cygnus Mystery written by Andrew Collines and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cygnus Constellation holds the key to proving that life originated in the heavens—and will ultimately return there. Best-selling author Andrew Collins has uncovered an astronomy that is about 17,000 years old, with standing stones, temples, and monuments across the globe oriented towards Cygnus’s stars. He also found that the use of deep caves by Palaeolithic man led to the rise of religious thought and the belief in life’s stellar origins. Now modern-day technology has confirmed that high-energy particles come from a binary star known as Cygnus X3. Ancient people knew what science is finally verifying: that the DNA of life came originally from deep space.
Download or read book Women s Roles in Ancient Civilizations written by Bella Vivante and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge about the roles of women in ancient civilizations has been limited to traditionally held notions, but recent discoveries and research have led to exciting insights into the great variety of ways in which women contributed to ancient cultures. This reference work, designed for student research, features lengthy essays and a wealth of new information about women's roles in twelve ancient civilizations around the world--China, India, Japan, Mesopotamia, the Levant, Egypt, West Africa, Greece, Rome, the Maya, the Inca, and Native North America. Historical studies have tended to ignore women's roles in ancient civilizations and to devalue their contributions to the community. These essays examine women's religious, political, public, economic, and domestic roles, their legal status, creative expression in art and literature, and notions of beauty. Students can then compare women's roles across cultures. The contributors, each of whom is a subject specialist, examine not only the nature of women's limitations in patriarchal culture but the ways in which women often succeeded, despite these limitations, in becoming agents of social change. Each essay begins with a timeline of events in the history of that culture to place the narrative in historical context, and concludes with suggestions for further reading about women in that culture.
