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Big ideas from history : a history of the world for you / The School of Life.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- The School of Life.
- School of Life, author.
- Series:
- Big Ideas Series
- Big Ideas Series ; v.2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Juvenile literature.
- History.
- History--PhilosophyJuvenile literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2022.
- London, England : The School of Life, [2022]
- Summary:
- An engaging, inclusive history of the world for children, where feelings, curiosity, and facts blend together Big Ideas from History is the story of what has happened through time - in a voice that speaks directly to a child's growing mind, helping them make vast connections between time and place, and their own place within history. What might.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction: What Is History for?
- Part One: Prehistory
- How Did the Universe Begin?
- How Did the Earth Get Made?
- How Does Evolution Work?
- Your (Enormous) Family Tree
- How Did We Get to Be Human?
- The First Tools
- How Did We Start Speaking?
- Our Missing Cousins
- How Humans Spread Around the World
- How Religion Started
- From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers
- How Money Was Invented
- Part Two: Angent History
- What the Buddha Thought
- Why the Ancient Greeks Had Lots of Gods
- What Christian Thought Can Teach Us
- Why Do Civilisations Sometimes Go Backwards?
- Part Three: The Middle Ages
- The Islamic Golden Age
- How Short and Hard Life Was (and How Painful As Well)
- What Were Monasteries For?
- What Old Maps Tell You
- Part Four: The Beginnings of The Modern World
- Renaissance Thinking
- Why the Aztecs Were Defeated
- The Native Americans
- A Brief History of Pandemic Diseases
- Why Did Millions of Africans End Up In the Americas?
- When Was Printing Invented?
- How We Invented Science
- Why We Invented Forks and Chopsticks (and the Difference Between a Ladder and a Pendulum)
- The Beginnings of Religious Tolerance
- Part Five: Industraialisation
- The Discovery of Fossil Fuels
- Famine (and the New Problem of Eating Too Much)
- The Conquest of the Night
- The Birth of Travel and Speed
- The Story of Cities
- The Birth of Central Heating (and the Hot Bath)
- The Rise of Shopping
- How Education Changed (and How It Might Change in the Future)
- Why Lots of People Stopped Being Religious
- The Birth of Art Galleries
- Part Six: The Modern World
- How Everyone Got the Vote
- Why It Matters What We Count
- The Rise of the News
- The Increasing Power of Advertising
- The Invention of Childhood
- What Was Communism?
- What Is Capitalism?
- Animals.
- The Discovery of DNA
- How We Invented Computers (and Why They Still Can't Invent Jokes)
- The Problems of Rich Countries
- Independence In Africa
- Exotic History
- Part Seven: The Future
- Should We Panic?
- What We Still Don't Know
- What Might Machines Do In the Future?
- How Can We All Live Better Together?
- List of Images
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-915087-35-X
- OCLC:
- 1346360976
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