Ancient China

By Shuter, Jane

Publishers Summary:
How did the people of Ancient China live? What were their social, economic, political, and cultural lives like? How did their values and attitudes help shape our world? This title answers these questions and more with informative text, colorful photographs and original source materials, and clear maps and diagrams to show readers what life was like in ancient civilizations.

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ISBN
978-1-40345-995-4
Publisher
Heinemann-Raintree


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on February 1, 2006

Gr 4-6 In these handsomely designed volumes, color photographs of sites and artifacts are supplemented by detailed drawings of re-created structures and scenes from the past. Numerous sidebars provide additional information. Cartoon archaeologists in ever-changing garb at the bottom of alternate pages highlight -Did You Know? - tidbits. "Mesa Verde" explains how these ancient people reached North and South America using the land bridge and settled down to farm in the Four Corners area. Quigley uses the term -Ancestral Puebloans - rather than the sometimes derogatory -Anasazi - and explains w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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