The New Childrens Encyclopedia

202 The slave trade Slavery has been a feature of many societies, such as ancient Egypt and Rome. But it was the Atlantic slave ...

THE SLAVE TRADE 203 Union soldier SLAVES FOR SALE On arrival in the New World, slaves were taken to markets, where they were sol ...

204 The age of empire Since the 1600s, European countries had steadily gained land and influence over countries around the world ...

THE AGE OF EMPIRE 205 Gold INDEPENDENCE Australia The British used convicts to establish their first colonies in Australia. Free ...

206 Industrial Revolution Between 1750 and 1850, the development of power-driven machines transformed the lives of people, first ...

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 207 Cotton gin The US became the world’s leading cotton producer, thanks to the invention of the cotton gi ...

208 World War I At the beginning of the 1900s, military and political tensions existed between some of the countries of Europe. ...

WORLD WAR I 209
CROSSING NOMAN’S LAND Most attempts to advance occurred at dawn or dusk. THE FRONT LINE By the end of 1914, a ...

210 1941 On December 7, Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The US entered the war. World War II The pea ...

WORLD WAR II 211  THE CAMPS Auschwitz in Poland was one of eight concentration camps that had gas chambers. In May, the Axis ar ...

212  In March, a peaceful demonstration in Vienna, Austria, turned violent. 1789 Revolution! World history has been marked by e ...

REVOLUTION! 213 1914-47 1956-58  Workers and mutinied soldiers marched on the streets of Petrograd (St. Petersburg).  HAMMER A ...

In the news Every day, history is being made. Events affecting people’s lives and altering the politics of nations around the wo ...

IN THE NEWS HISTORY AND POLITICS After World War II, the state of Israel was created as a home for Jewish people. The Palestinia ...

In some countries, only one political party is allowed to exist; all others are banned. When there is an election, the one party ...

 THE CANDIDATES In an election, candidates may be nominated by different political parties. The person who gets the most votes ...

218 SCIENCE What is terminal velocity and how does it affect a skydiver? Find out on pages 234—235 The word science comes from t ...

Definition: Science helps us understand the workings of the universe and everything in it. We increase our knowledge by observin ...

What is science? Science is the search for knowledge about the world and the way it works. Unlike other ways of explaining how t ...

Biology is the scientific study of living things. Its many branches are devoted to different kinds of life, including botany (th ...