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• ISBN: 9780593843789
• ISBN: 0593843789
• Physical Description: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
• Edition: First American edition.
• Publisher: New York : DK/Penguin Random House, 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prehistory. Our planet's history ; Around the world ; Farming and the first cities ; The last ice age -- Africa. Africa today ; Northern Africa: the land ; People of the Nile ; Hannibal crosses the Alps ; Travels of Ibn Battuta ; Sub-Saharan Africa: the land ; The Bantu migration ; Kingdoms and empires ; Mansa Musa's pilgrimage ; Scramble for Africa ; The dawn of a new era -- Asia. Asia today ; West and central Asia: the land ; Between the rivers ; The first great empire ; The successors of Muhammad ; The Ottoman Empire ; Isreal and Palestine ; Oil and land ; South and southeast Asia: the land ; The Indus River's bounty ; The empires of early India ; Temples and trade ; The Mughals of India ; Krakatau explodes ; Shaking the British Empire ; The partition of India ; A new start for southeast Asia ; Vietnam wars ; North and east Asia: the land ; Early Chinese dynasties ; The Silk Road ; The Devil's horsemen ; Warlords of Korea and Japan ; Ming and Qing China ; Travels of Zheng He ; Japan transformed ; Revolutionary China ; The Korean war -- Europe. Europe today ; Europe: the land ; Athens versus Sparta ; Alexander the Great ; The rise of Rome ; The eruption of Mount Vesuvius ; A new Roman empire ; Voyages of the Vikings ; The father of Europe ; The Crusades ; Travels of Marco Polo ; The Black Death ; The reconquista ; Sailing westward ; Crossing the world ; Christianity splits ; Ivan the Terrible's Russia ; A century of change ; The United Kingdom ; Rise and fall of the USSR ; Uniting Europe ; The collapse of Yugoslavia -- Oceania. Oceania today ; Oceania: the land ; First Australian peoples ; Polynesian seafarers ; The first fleet ; Convicts and colonization ; The land of the long white cloud -- North America. North America today ; North America: the land ; The first North Americans ; Mesoamerican civilizations ; Indigenous peoples and the frontier ; The American Revolution ; Revolt of the enslaved ; Building the US ; Mexico's shrinking borders ; A house divided ; Formation of Canada ; The Cuban Missile Crisis -- South America. South America today ; South America: the land ; Civilizations of the Andes ; Dividing the world ; A thirst for gold ; Setting South America free -- Our world. Transatlantic slave trade ; The Great War ; The Arctic ; Antarctica ; The Endurance voyage ; War in Europe ; War in the Pacific ; The Cold War.

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