ABSTRACT

This lavishly illustrated full-color set is organized by the time frames that mirror the National Standards for world history for grades 6-12. An ideal supplement to all the major textbooks, it offers appealing and comprehensive biographies of history's most influential figures - both famous and infamous."Lifelines in World History" features biographies of figures from Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Southwest Asia, and covers the most significant events and trends in world history. Each volume includes 15-20 biographies, and in addition to biographical information, each entry includes engaging sidebars that feature key dates, more people to know, words from their time, and cultural connections. The set also includes numerous full-color maps.

part |115 pages

About Lifelines in World History

chapter |5 pages

Archimedes (ca. 287–212 b.c.e.)

chapter |4 pages

Ashoka the Great (ca. 299–232 b.c.e.)

chapter |7 pages

Attila the Hun (ca. c.e. 406–453)

chapter |7 pages

Augustus Caesar (63 b.c.e.–c.e. 14)

chapter |6 pages

Cleopatra VII (69–30 b.c.e.)

chapter |6 pages

Confucius (ca. 551–479 b.c.e.)

chapter |6 pages

Cyrus the Great (ca. 580–530 b.c.e.)

chapter |5 pages

Euclid (ca. 325–265 b.c.e.)

chapter |6 pages

Herodotus (ca. 484–425 b.c.e.)

chapter |8 pages

Justinian I (c.e. 483–565)

chapter |5 pages

Solomon (ca. 1000–931 b.c.e.)

chapter |5 pages

Thutmose III (ca. 1491–1425 b.c.e.)

part |115 pages

About Lifelines in World History

chapter |5 pages

Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (ca. 980–1037)

chapter |8 pages

Charlemagne (ca. 742–814)

chapter |7 pages

Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca. 1122–1204)

chapter |6 pages

Gregory I, The Great (ca. 540–604)

chapter |6 pages

Harun al-Rashid (ca. 763–809)

chapter |8 pages

Henry VIII (1491—1547)

chapter |5 pages

Hunac Ceel (ca. 1200)

chapter |6 pages

Louis IX (1214–1270)

chapter |7 pages

Maimonides, Moses (1135–1204)

chapter |6 pages

Muhammad (ca. 570–632)

chapter |5 pages

Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973–1014)

chapter |6 pages

Pachacuti (r. 1438–1471)

chapter |6 pages

Vladimir I (ca. 958–1015)

chapter |7 pages

Xuanzang (Hsuan Tsang) (ca. 602–664)

part |115 pages

About Lifelines in World History

chapter |6 pages

Akbar the Great (1542–1605)

chapter |7 pages

Columbus, Christopher (1451–1506)

chapter |6 pages

Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473–1543)

chapter |6 pages

Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

chapter |7 pages

Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)

chapter |6 pages

Kangxi (1654–1722)

chapter |6 pages

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

chapter |7 pages

Locke, John (1632–1704)

chapter |8 pages

Louis XIV (1638–1715)

chapter |7 pages

Luther, Martin (1483–1546)

chapter |6 pages

Moctezuma II (ca. 1480–1520)

chapter |5 pages

Muhammad I Askia (ca. 1443–1538]

chapter |7 pages

Newton, Isaac (1642–1727)

chapter |6 pages

Peter I, the Great (1672–1725)

chapter |6 pages

Petrarch (1304–1374)

chapter |6 pages

Zheng He (1371-ca. 1433)

part |115 pages

About Lifelines in World History

chapter |7 pages

Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal (1881–1938)

chapter |6 pages

Bismarck, Otto von (1815–1898)

chapter |7 pages

Bolívar, Simón (1783–1830)

chapter |7 pages

Castro, Fidel (1926–)

chapter |8 pages

Churchill, Winston (1874–1965)

chapter |5 pages

Curie, Marie Sklodowska (1867–1934)

chapter |5 pages

Einstein, Albert (1879–1955)

chapter |8 pages

Gandhi, Mohandas K. (1869–1948)

chapter |7 pages

Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945)

chapter |6 pages

Lenin, Vladimir (1870–1924)

chapter |8 pages

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

chapter |7 pages

Mandela, Nelson (1918–)

chapter |8 pages

Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

chapter |6 pages

Marx, Karl (1818–1883)

chapter |6 pages

Meir, Golda (1896–1978)

chapter |7 pages

Napoleon I (1769–1821)

chapter |6 pages

Thatcher, Margaret (1925–)