The New Childrens Encyclopedia

Architecture Architecture is the design of buildings and other structures, such as bridges. An architect’s job is to make sure a ...

O Traditional building materials include wood, stone, and brick, but many modern buildings make use of large amounts of glass. A ...

About one million years ago, early people began to spread out across the continents. Around 3000 bce, Egypt became the first sup ...

Definition: History and Politics is the study of the lives of people and the activity of governments and rulers in the past from ...

184 Tales from the past History is the study of things that have happened in the past. This can be anything from the earliest pe ...

TALES FROM THE PAST HISTORY AND POLITICS u DOMESDAY BOOK In 1086, King William I of England commissioned a survey of every estat ...

186 AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS HOMO HABILIS HOMO ERECTUS TIMELINE OF HOMINIDS Dated: 2.3–1.6 mya Tools found with fossil remains ...

EARLY PEOPLE 187 TELL ME MORE... As the early people moved northward, they had to cope with a colder climate and survive the ice ...

188 Ancient Egypt From about 6,000 years ago, cities began to appear along the banks of large rivers. The civilizations in Egypt ...

ANCIENT EGYPT 189 O Mural paintings: Images of the deities meeting a pharaoh in the afterlife were painted on the walls of the p ...

190 Greeks and... The ancient Greeks had one of the most advanced ancient civilizations. Historians know much about them from th ...

GREEKS AND... ROMANS 191 Julius Caesar, the military leader of the Roman Republic, conquered Gaul in western Europe. Augustus ch ...

Medieval period The word “medieval” means “the middle ages,” and covers a period of more than a thousand years between the fall ...

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Power in numbers It wasn’t just the noblemen who had power and influence. Craftsmen formed guilds to protect ...

194 China’s dynasties China can claim to have the oldest continuous known civilization, which has lasted at least 4,000 years. S ...

CHINA’S DYNASTIES 195 Forbidden City In 1420, the Ming emperor and his household moved to a vast imperial palace in the capital, ...

622–632 MUHAMMAD 661–750 UMAY YAD TIMELINE OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE Muhammad took control of Mecca and established the Islamic civiliza ...

1258 RISE OF THE SULTANS 13691506 TIMURID The Ottoman Turks ruled over the Islamic state and expanded their empire into eastern ...

198 Incas A tribe of farmers led by their king, Manco Cápac, settled in Cuzco in the highlands of Peru during the 1100s. Like th ...

AZTECS AND INCAS
LLAMAS were valued for their wool, their meat, and for carrying goods along the roads. Cortés arrives WHO’S W ...