Description: On File "TM" is our award-winning collection of visual reference materials. Each On File "TM" depicts complex subjects in a way that both engages and informs students and researchers. These flexible resources fit into every curriculum.
-- Instructors can use the pages for handouts, overheads, posters, and testing.
-- Students can use them as quick sources of information, to reference curriculum topics, or to supplement their essays and reports.
-- On Files "TM" are available in either binder or electronic format.

Based on the Regional History On File "TM" series, the four-volume World History On File "TM" set is organized chronologically by era to give students a historical perspective and to provide an interdisciplinary look at events around the globe. Its non-Eurocentric periodization integrates all the world's cultures and regions.

Designed to Adhere to the National Standards for World History

Based on our best-selling Regional History On File "TM" series, this four-volume set has been reorganized, reformatted, and thoroughly updated to align with the current National Standards for World History. Presenting world history in the periodization and format teachers requested, World History On File "TM" is designed to meet the needs of today's students and educators.

Organized Chronologically

Comprehensive and up-to-date, World History On File "TM" presents the story of humankind as it unfolds across the millennia. Organized chronologically by era to give students a historical perspective, this unparalleled research effort provides an inclusive, multidisciplinary look at events around the globe. Through the hundreds of maps, timelines, charts, and drawings in eachvolume, a seamless tapestry of the world's peoples and civilizations emerges, bringing the past to life with clarity and immediacy.

Highlights of World History On File "TM":
-- Non-Eurocentric periodization integrates all the world's cultures and regions.
-- Multidisciplinary coverage offers a balanced presentation of political, social, economic, and cultural history.
-- A unique combination of text, timelines, and maps permits quick and easy access to information.
-- Specially developed pages encourage active learning and help hone historical skills:
-- Historical comprehension
-- Analysis
-- Interpretation.
-- Developed to meet the standards of major curricula and the National Standards for World History.

The second volume examines the rapidly changing world brought about by the increasing interaction of peoples and cultures.

Topics include:
-- Barbarian Invasions of Europe
-- Byzantine Empire
-- Charlemagne's Empire
-- Empire of Ghana
-- Arab Empire
-- Muslim Presence in Europe
-- Six Dynasties Period in China
-- 1st-4th Crusades
-- Feudal System
-- Important Medieval European Women
-- Shona Empire and Great Zimbabwe
-- Ming Dynasty
-- Mongol Empire
-- Ashikaga Shogunate Empire
-- Renaissance Italy
-- Slavery
-- Scientific Revolution
-- The Enlightenment
-- Peasant Life in Europe
-- Asante Empire
-- Songhai Empire
-- Mughal Empire
-- Repartimento and the Encomienda System in the Spanish Empire.

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