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Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the ancient Romans that explains how their civilization influenced later societies, discussing daily life, law and order, science, agriculture, medicine, and related topics.
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the ancient Chinese that explains how their civilization influenced later societies, and discusses daily life, methods of communication, science, agriculture, medicine, and related topics.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist and historian Ian Morris explains that Western dominance is largely the result of the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, however, the world over the next hundred years will subsequently change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.
Series
Contradictions of modernity volume 11
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English