This authoritative reference book brings world history to life, from early humans to the current war on terror. Along the way, it reveals riveting facts on the founding of the great Roman Empire, the revolution that changed France forever, the war between the North and South that unified America, the start of World War I and the Great Depression that followed, the first moon landing, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. The encyclopedia is organized chronologically and then thematically within each time period. A timeline runs across the top of each page. Each section includes biographies of important people and features on art, architecture, and technology. [This book description comes from a different edition of this title. Please report any inaccuracies].

 

 

This book features in the following series: Kingfisher, Kingfisher Encyclopedias, Kingfisher Family Of Encyclopedias .

This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade-9th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-14 years.

There are 500 pages in this book. This book was published in 2022 by Kingfisher .

Professor Charles Taylor received the U. K. 's Bragg Medal and Prize of Institutional Physics, and the UK's Michael Faraday Award for contributions to the public understanding of science. He has presented lectures on BBC television and has written many science books for children.