World History, Grades 9-12

Features Work and Play in Ancient Egypt 42 Bull Leapers of Knossos 73 Life in a Roman Villa 166 Chinese Society 202 Collecting W ...

xxi The Incan System of Record Keeping 20 Pythagorean Theorem 148 The Epic 179 Pyramids 242 Warriors and Animal Symbols 454 Othe ...

xxii The Leakey Family 7 Hammurabi 34 Siddhartha Gautama 68 King Solomon 81 Hatshepsut 90 Confucius, Laozi 105 Pericles 135 Socr ...

xxiii Historical and Political Maps Unit 1 Prehistoric World to 2500 B.C. 3 Early Human Migration, 1,600,000–10,000 B.C. 10 Agri ...

Historical and Political Maps (continued) BEACHUTAH OMAHA BEACH GOLD BEACH JUNO BEACH SWORD BEACH U.S. 1st ARMYBradley BRITISH 2 ...

Charts Charts and Graphs Chinese Writing 53 Language Family Resemblances 61 The Four Noble Truths 69 Alphabets—Ancient and Moder ...

xxvi Time Lines, Infographics, and Political Cartoons Chapter 1 2 Hominid Development 8 Time Line of Planet Earth 9 Chapter 2 26 ...

xxvii Primary and Secondary Sources Chapter 1 Mary Leakey,quoted in National Geographic, 7 Richard E. Leakey,The Making of Manki ...

xxviii Chapter 15 Al-Bakri, quoted in Africa in the Days of Exploration, 414 Ibn Battuta, quoted in Africa in the Days of Explor ...

xxix Jules Ferry,quoted in The Human Record: Sources of Global History, 785 “The Devilfish in Egyptian Waters” (political cartoo ...

Power and Authority History is often made by the people and institutions in power. As you read about the world’s powerful people ...

Economics Economics has proven to be a powerful force in human history. From early times to the present, human cultures have bee ...

xxxii Geography is the study of the earth and its features. It is also an important part of human history. Since the beginning o ...

xxxiii Region A region is any area that has common characteristics. These characteristics may include physical factors, such as ...

xxxiv While history is the story of people, it is also the examination of when events occurred. Keeping track of the order of hi ...

Place PACIFIC OCEAN INDIAN OCEAN Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal South China Sea East China Sea Yellow Sea Sea of Japan In du sR . Gan ...

Do you like puzzles? If so, you are in luck. You are about to encounter the greatest puzzle there is: history. The study of hist ...

Modern Science The ever-improving field of sci- ence has lent its hand in the search to learn more about the past. Using everyth ...

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1 Rising out of the sands of Egypt are enduring signs of an ancient civilization. Pictured here are the pyramids of Giza, which ...