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Condition
VERY GOOD: The book's spine, pages, covers, and dust jacket are in excellent condition.
Product Details
More than 3,500 indexed articles and 2,000 full-color illustrations are contained in this encyclopedia. The entries are chronologically-themed for easy reference:
Chronological Divisions
- The Ancient World: 40,000-500 B.C.
- The Classical World: 499 B.C.-A.D. 500
- Early Middle Ages: 501-1100
- The Middle Ages: 1101-1460
- The Renaissance: 1461-1600
- Trade and Empire: 1601-1707
- Revolution and Independence: 1708-1835
- Unification and Colonization: 1836-1913
- The World at War: 1914-1949
- The Modern World: 1950-Present Day
At the top of each two-page entry, there’s a timeline that starts at 10,000 B.C. and ends at A.D. 2000, with the appropriate period for the entry highlighted by a red bar.
A “Ready Reference” at the end of the book puts the names of rulers (emperors, popes, kings, queens, czars, pharaohs, presidents, etc.) in context to their time periods.