
Builders of the Old World
(From Amazon): Tales of the early nations.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- B0007IWW0G
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapers
- 91
- Pages
- 468
- Publisher
- Heath
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Copyright
- 1959
Chapers
- 1:1 How the First People Lived
- 2 Sticks and Stones
- 3 The Fire Makers
- 4 Buried Treasures
- 5 The Cave Dwellers
- 6 Cave Artists
- 7 Man Begins to Worship
- 8 Animal Helpers
- 9 Wheels and Sails
- 10 The Beginning of Settled Life
- 11 Learning to Live Together
- 12 Trading and Counting
- 13 The First Nations
- 14 The Foundations of Civilization
- 2:1 Ancient Dwellers on the Nile
- 2 Tillers of the Soil
- 3 Watering the Land
- 4 Craftsmen
- 5 Boatbuilders
- 6 Picture Writing
- 7 Scribes
- 8 Telling Time
- 9 The Calendar Makers
- 10 Gods and Men
- 11 In the Hall of Truth
- 12 A Great Queen
- 13 Rich Man, Poor Man
- 14 The Pyramid Builders
- 15 Great Temples
- 3:1 The Fertile Cresent
- 2 Life in Babylonia
- 3 Tower-Temples
- 4 The Laws of Hammurabi
- 5 Books of Clay
- 6 School Days in Babylon
- 7 The Warrior Nation
- 8 King Nebeuchadnezzar
- 9 The Shepherd Peopl
- 10 Moses the Lawgiver
- 11 Life in the Land of Canaan
- 12 What the Hebrews Taught the World
- 13 The Sea Beckons
- 14 A Nation of Traders
- 15 Carriers of Civilization
- 16 Empire Builders
- 4:1 The City-States of Hellas
- 2 Greek Homes and Farms
- 3 Growing Up in Sparta and Athens
- 4 The Gods of the Greeks
- 5 The Olympic Games
- 6 The Tale of Troy
- 7 First Steps in Democracy
- 8 The Greeks Defend Their Freedom
- 9 The Athenians at Marathon
- 10 The Spartans at Thermopylae
- 11 The Wooden Walls Save Athens
- 12 The Golden Age of Pericles
- 13 Lovers of Wisom
- 14 Greece Loses Her Freedom
- 15 The Gifts of Greece to Civilization
- 5:1 The City of the Seven Hills
- 2 Early Roman Heroes
- 3 Rome Becomes a Republic
- 4 How the Early Romans Lived
- 5 Going to School in Romes
- 6 Rome Conquers All Italy
- 7 Rome and Carthage
- 8 How the Later Romans LIved
- 9 Cornelia's Jewels
- 10 Rome Extends Her Rule in Europe
- 11 Caesar Makes a New Calendar
- 12 The Death of Caesar
- 13 Rome, Mistress of the Ancient World
- 14 "All Roads Lead to Rome"
- 15 Christianity Comes to the World
- 16 The Christians are Persecuted
- 17 The Last Days of the Empire
- 6:1 The German Tribes Seek New Homes
- 2 The Moors in Spain
- 3 Gaul Becomes France
- 4 Charlemagne, King of the Franks
- 5 Britain Becomes England
- 6 Kind Alfred the Great
- 7 The Vikings Sail the Northern Sea
- 8 William the Conqueror
- 9 Lords and Vassals
- 10 Pagan Gods
- 11 Christianity Spreads over Europe
- 7:1
- 2
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