World History Encyclopedia - Young Readers Edition

Author: Huang Jianbin
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This "World History Encyclopedia" (Youth Edition) is rich in content and engaging, providing authentic descriptions of historical figures, places, and events, explaining how they shaped the complex, diverse, and turbulent world we know today. It fully illustrates the causes and consequences of various events and vividly portrays the historical legacy left by past monarchs, leaders, artists, and scientists. These legacies continue to influence people's lives at the beginning of the 21st century. Using this encyclopedia, you can relive the past and learn about the journey of humanity over the past 40,000 years—from Stone Age cave dwellers to the Anglo-Saxons, from the Aztecs and Incas of Central America to the Manchus of China, from the American Revolutionary War to the United Nations peacekeeping operations.