human geography

Why did Roman towns have bathhouses? Why was Rome at great risk from fires? What happened to the town of Pompeii in AD 79? Geography Matters in Ancient Rome looks at how the Roman Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Roman life through its geography. Read about how the Romans invented new farming methods such as a harvesting machine called a vallus how some women in the Roman Empire had more freedom than in other civilizations even running their husbands businesses for them when they were away and how the Empire was strengthened by the fact that the different climates soils and terrain produced a huge range of goods and resources.

How did a volcanic eruption put an end to Minoan civilization? What crops did the Ancient Greeks grow? How did city states form around the Greek empire? Geography Matters in Ancient Greece looks at how the Greek Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Greek life through its geography. Read about how the hot climate affected the crops that Greeks could grow and the housing and clothing they needed how the Mycenaeans were able to protect themselves from attackers by using the natural features of their landscape and their natural resources of stone and how its proximity to the Mediterranean Sea helped the Greek Empire in trading and in strengthening their military might.

How did the River Nile shape Egyptian life? What is a shaduf and what was it used for? How did the Ancient Egyptians make papyrus paper? Geography Matters in Ancient Egypt looks at how the Egyptian Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Egyptian life through its geography. Read about how the Egyptians made use of desert oases how they found and used resources such as limestone and granite for building pyramids in desert areas and how early Egyptian settlers who had decided to build in areas around the River Nile prevented their houses from flooding.

Describes the situation in twenty-six countries of the world and among twenty-six ethnic groups in which little is known about Christianity, and directs us on how to pray that Jesus will become more widely known.

Argues that all modern non-Africans can be traced back to a single exodus from Africa, when one migrant group of a few hundred people were forced from their homeland by increasing salinity in the Red Sea, more than 80,000 years ago, and today all non-Africans can trace their mitochondrial DNA to one woman from this group.

Describes some of the most exotic and beautiful landscapes on Earth, explaining how some have been ravaged by human activity and some where human culture and nature live in harmony.

"Compares and contrasts the way people lived in the Arctic over the course of centuries"--.

A collection of fifty-two illustrated maps documenting the geographical features, political borders, places of interest, native animals and plants, peoples, cultural events, and other facts about countries and continents around the world. Includes the flags of the world.

Photographs and simple text introduce readers to various tropical forest environments and the people who live there.