The book that puts the "story" back in history!
Don't know much about history? Don't worry! With this friendly reference, you can bone up on all those facts you missed in history class -- and have a good time in the bargain. From ancient Greece to contemporary America, from religious controversies to global wars, this is history the way it ought to be -- fresh, memorable, and fun. --back cover
Genres
- Historia universal
- History
- Nonfiction
- World history
- Act of Union
- airplanes
- alphabetic writing
- American Revolution
- Amerindians
- human anatomy
- animals
- archaeology
- art
- astronauts
- astronomy
- atomic weapons
- barbarians
- bias
- Bible
- Bill of Rights
- books
- bubonic plague
- calendars
- capitalism
- centuries
- chemical warfare
- chivalry
- circumnavigation
- cities
- citizens and citizenship
- civilization
- classes
- colonialism
- communication
- communism
- countries
- creation stories
- cuneiform writing
- dates
- divine right of kings
- historical documents
- dynasties
- economics
- education and literacy
- empire-building
- eras
- exploration
- farming
- genocide
- globalization
- gods
- city-states
- cultural legacy
- democracy
- philosophers
- religion
- warfare
- human beings
- human society
- hunter-gatherers
- indigenous peoples
- internal combustion engine
- language
- leaders
- legal systems and lawgivers
- legendary individuals
- libraries
- literacy
- mathematics
- medicine
- mummies
- nation building
- native peoples
- original sin
- historical people
- perspective in art
- philosophy
- plague
- plebian class
- politics
- printing press
- pyramids
- radio
- railroads
- reading
- record keeping
- revolutions
- rivers
- science
- secular humanism
- serfs
- shoguns
- slave trade
- socialism
- society
- steam engines
- submarine warfare
- suffrage
- suicide bombing
- technology
- telegraphs
- telephones
- television
- terrorism
- theater
- theistic religions
- trade
- transportation
- universities
- viceroys
- wealth
- weaponry
- women
- workers’ rights
- world wars
- writing
- years
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