A perennial best seller, now in its fourth edition. Beginning with ancient Sumer and progressing to the present day, 87 short lessons combine texts, time lines, maps, puzzles, and mini-biographies to dramatize critical events and places over the last 7,000 years

Units include:

• The First Civilized People
• Greece and Rome
• Empires and Civilizations Around the World
• The Middle Ages
• Europe’s Power Grows Greater
• The Industrial Revolution
• Empire Building and War
• War Was Not a Solution
• Communism and the Cold War
• The Middle East
• Africa
• Asia
• Europe and the Former Soviet Union
• The Americas and Today’s World

Short Lessons in World History is the perfect add-on to a traditional world history course, or can serve as a complete program. Includes an informative glossary and a complete answer key for all puzzles and assessments.