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Author: Janey Levy Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP ISBN: 1538265737 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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Thousands of years before Europeans reached the shores of the Americas, the ancestors of the Americas' native peoples arrived. These early people gave rise to great civilizations with a remarkable list of achievements. These accomplishments range from the birchbark canoe to the first organized game in the history of sports. This engrossing volume will fascinate readers as they discover the achievements of the ancient Americans. Thoroughly researched content highlights important social studies concepts. Thrilling images, fact boxes, sidebars, and graphic organizers support the narrative.
Author: Janey Levy Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP ISBN: 1538265737 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
Thousands of years before Europeans reached the shores of the Americas, the ancestors of the Americas' native peoples arrived. These early people gave rise to great civilizations with a remarkable list of achievements. These accomplishments range from the birchbark canoe to the first organized game in the history of sports. This engrossing volume will fascinate readers as they discover the achievements of the ancient Americans. Thoroughly researched content highlights important social studies concepts. Thrilling images, fact boxes, sidebars, and graphic organizers support the narrative.
Author: Janey Levy Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP ISBN: 1538265761 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Thousands of years before Europeans reached the shores of the Americas, the ancestors of the Americas' native peoples arrived. These early people gave rise to great civilizations with a remarkable list of achievements. These accomplishments range from the birchbark canoe to the first organized game in the history of sports. This engrossing volume will fascinate readers as they discover the achievements of the ancient Americans. Thoroughly researched content highlights important social studies concepts. Thrilling images, fact boxes, sidebars, and graphic organizers support the narrative.
Author: Joanne Pillsbury Publisher: Getty Publications ISBN: 1606065483 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 331
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This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
Author: Charlie Samuels Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP ISBN: 1433996235 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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When the Spanish encountered the native people of South America in the 15th and 16th centuries, they marveled at the abundance of gold and silver. In fact, the ancient peoples of Peru began making things from gold and silver about 3,000 years ago! Readers will be as fascinated as those first Spaniards were with the inventive and useful items the Aztec, Maya, and Inca cultures created before any Europeans arrived in the Americas. From hieroglyphs and special record-keeping systems to well-developed Incan roads, the technology described adds fun and interesting scientific detail to a common subject of the social studies curriculum. Readers will find even more facts about each topic in the sidebars of each section as well as on a helpful timeline, including information about farming, communication, and transportation. Colorful photographs of buildings and artifacts as well as artistic renderings of history will draw readers into the world of the ancient Americas.
Author: Peter J. James Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN: 0345401026 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 702
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A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad
Author: Lindsey Lowe Publisher: Discovering Ancient Technology ISBN: 9781502669315 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Maya, Aztec, and Inca peoples developed highly advanced civilizations in the ancient Americas. Readers discover some of the many technological developments made by these groups as they expand their knowledge of both social studies and STEM concepts. Farming techniques, pyramid construction, and the creation of calendars are just some of the topics highlighted in the informative main text and sidebars that break down fun facts about the science, engineering, and math behind these technological achievements. Colorful photographs and illustrations are also included to help readers visualize this part of the ancient world.
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing ISBN: 1615305742 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 90
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The cultural and intellectual achievements of Old World civilizationsancient Greece or Egypt, for instancecan be glimpsed in present-day societies the world over. Unfortunately, accomplishments of the ancient civilizations of the New World have often been obscured by the colonial forces that eventually eradicated much of their populations. One glance at the imposing architecture left behind by the Inca or the mathematical strides made by the Maya reveals that the early peoples of the Americas were equally as enterprising as their Old World counterparts. This exciting volume introduces readers to the magnificent kingdoms and empires of early South, Middle, and North America and the rich heritage of the peoples who made them.
Author: Sarah B. Barber Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131744082X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 323
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This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself generated political innovation and thus enabled political centralization to occur. It moves beyond a "Great Tradition" focus on elite religion to understand how local political authority was negotiated, contested, bolstered, and undermined within diverse constituencies, demonstrating how religion has transformed non-Western societies. As well as offering readers fresh perspectives on specific archaeological cases, this book breaks new ground in the archaeological examination of religion and society.
Author: Janey Levy
Author: Janey Levy
Author: Janey Levy
Author: Joanne Pillsbury
Author: Charlie Samuels
Author: Emory Dean Keoke
Author: Peter J. James
Author: Lindsey Lowe
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Author: Friedrich Katz
Author: Sarah B. Barber