Young readers will be drawn to all kinds of gory and unsavory topics, including foot binding for young women, the murderous Empress Wu, the deadly search for immortality, and the origins of acupuncture.
Take your readers on a trip back in time to learn all about Tenochtitl?n this ancient city, its takeover by Spanish conquistadors, and its eventual decline.
". . . historian and classicist Barry Strauss tells the story of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the lives of ten . . . emperors, from Augustus to Constantine"--Provided by publisher.
Presents a biography of French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte, with maps, illustrations, primary source documents, a timeline, and a glossary.
Along a narrow strip of fertile land bordering the mighty Nile River, the ancient Egyptians fashioned a complex, successful civilization that endured for more than three millennia.
