By Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
ISBN-10: 0787660477
ISBN-13: 9780787660475
< p>< I>World Eras< /I> is patterned after the award-winning < I>American Decade's < /I>series. protecting components usually neglected by way of different courses, < I>World Eras< /I> presents a multicultural method that at once displays altering curriculum criteria, with a cross-disciplinary evaluation of worldwide background and a powerful emphasis of everyday life and social history.< P>Each quantity during this set comprises in-depth assurance of 1 period and is geared up into ten chapters: < ul>< li> international occasions -- A Chronology < li> Geography< li> the humanities -- Sculpture, structure, portray and track < li> Communications, Transportation and Exploration < li> Social category structures and the financial system -- concentrating on social-economic hierarchy< li> Politics, legislation and the army < li> relaxation, sport and way of life -- housing, garments, foodstuff, schooling, etc.< li> relations and Social tendencies -- customs, ideals, roles and obligations< li> faith and Philosophy < li> technological know-how, expertise and overall healthiness< /UL>< p>Each quantity comprises an introductory essay that offers context and evaluation of the period written via a pupil within the box and may include a hundred and fifty photos, line drawings, diagrams, illustrations and sidebars. each one bankruptcy inside a quantity comprises an introductory essay, a timeline, entries on particular issues, occasions or pursuits, biographies of well-liked members, and demanding guides of the period. A word list of subject-specific phrases seems to be on the finish of the ebook.
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Empress Theodora of Byzantium introduces long white dresses, purple cloaks, gold embroidery, tiaras, and pointed shoes. 542 Transported by rats from Egypt and Syria, a plague hits Constantinople and spreads all over Europe. 543 Disastrous earthquakes shake the whole world. 546 Ostrogoth king Totila captures Rome, which is retaken by Byzantine general Belisarius. 55O Totila conquers Rome for the second time and goes on to take most of the rest of Italy and Sicily. As Byzantine power gradually declines in the West, the influence of the papacy begins to grow.
Norseman Erik the Red discovers Greenland, establishing Norse colonies there in 986. 983 On the death of Otto II, his three-year-old son Otto III becomes king of Germany. His mother and grandmother rule as regents until he comes of age in 994. On the death of King Lothaire, his weak son Louis V becomes king of France. 986 Sabuktigin invades India, introducing Islam in that region. Blown off course during a storm, Icelander Bjarni Herjulfsson and his crew make the first recorded European sighting of the North American continent.
Led by Robert Guiscard and his sons, Bohemond and Roger Borsa, Normans from southern Italy invade Byzantine territories in western Greece (1081), Macedonia (1083), and Corfu (1083). Alexius I Comnenus wins the support of Venice by granting it extensive trading privileges (1082). The Normans abandon their invasion in 1085, after the Byzantine and Venetian fleets defeat them near Corfu. 1083 Christian king Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile takes Madrid from the Muslims. 1085 Alfonso VI captures Toledo from the Muslims.
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