Fagan, Brian M

A view that Columbus's voyage was the product of a long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus.

Text with maps, photographs, and reconstruction drawings provide an account of the first Americans.

Photographs and text chronicle the history of ancient Egypt, profiling the most famous kings, queens, and pharaohs of the era.

Text with maps, photographs, and reconstruction drawings provide an account of the first Americans.

Discusses the climatic shifts that characterized the Little Ice Age, a climate event that lasted from 1300 to 1850, and examines the extent to which these weather changes affected the course of European history.

Examines the earth's warming period between the tenth and fifteenth centuries and how it affected global societies, and describes how it relates to weather patterns around the world today.

How archaeologists use advanced technology to reconstruct the past.