Author(s): John Haywood

Education

Investigate how essential aspects of everyday life have evolved over 10,000 years in different societies around the world. Discover what home, school and family were like in the past for rich and poor, young and old. Find out amazing facts about the lifetyles and skills of past civilisations and societies, and how they developed through time. There are special features on stone age villages, Egyptian houses, homes for rich and poor in India, life in a Chinese palace, the Roman villa, growing up in Greece, the Viking family, the Celtic farm and much much more. This book is both stimulating and educational, with projects to intensify the learning experience. Step-by-step photographs ensure that children can carry out the projects by themselves, or with limited supervision. Learn how to build a Roman villa; make writing tablets, pots and scrolls; bake Egyptian cakes; erect an ancient Arctic tent; fashion an Inuit igloo, and place these homes and items in geographical and historical context. Stirring fact-packed text and over 350 beautiful illustrations make this vivid history an ideal accompaniement to school work, or a perfect additional learning tool at home for children aged 8-12 years.