This title focuses on how human society and lifestyle evolved, from the time of the earliest humans. The book enables the reader to compare how peoples from opposite ends of the globe gew into great civilizations - or did not - and discover why. Each of the world's major early civilizations and cultures is investigated in turn, from the dramatic changes during the Stone Age and the ancient river valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and the Nile, to the continuing cultures of the Arctic and Native American Indians. The book contains colour illustrations, including historical photographs, inside-view artworks and life-like paintings. Step-by-step projects for costumes, and model-making are all inspired by the skills of the past and pictorial timelines trace key events and inventions. The text aims to enhance British National Curriculum Key Stage 2 objectives by encouraging understanding of tribes and civilizations in cotext of time, highlighting characteristic features of different societies around the world, and introducing new ways of looking at history.

 

This book is part of a book series called Through the Ages .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Anness Publishing .

Charlotte Hurdman is an editor and author of illustrated information books. Philip Steele is an historian who specializes in writing books for children. Richard Tames has written over 100 books for children, and is also a biographer and a Blue Badge Tourist Guide. Daud Ali lectures in Early South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His writing pedigree includes publications on a wide range of ancient Indian subjects, including monarchy, women, cosmology and Hinduism. John Haywood is an honorary research Fellow at Lancaster University, England, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. Jen Green is a widely published children's nonfiction writer, specializing in natural science topics.