The World's History: Prehistory to 1500

ISBN: 0205708382

Author: Spodek, Howard

Condition: New

The past is not simply a list of events. Historical records are the means by which historians develop their interpretations of those events. Because interpretations differ, there is no single historical record, but various narrations of events each told from a different perspective. Therefore the study of history is intimately linked to the study of values, the values of the historical actors, the historians who have written about them, and of the students engaged in learning about them. The Worlds History links chronology, themes, and geography in eight units, or Parts, of study. The Parts move progressively along a time line from the emergence of early humans to the present day. Each Part emphasizes a single themefor example, urbanization or religion or migrationand students learn to use them all to analyze historical events and to develop a grasp of