Facts on File library of world history

Contains over seven hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about some of the most significant epidemics and contagions in the history of the world from the Philistine plague of the eleventh century BCE through the South African cholera epidemic of2000/2001.

Lists over 2500 entries covering the principal issues, events, and people in Europe throughout the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

Contains over 2,200 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on various aspects of ancient Egypt from the predynastic era to the suicide of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Includes time lines, photographs, and maps.

Contains a comprehensive study into the ancient Asian civilizations from approximately 3000 B.C. and includes a history of the region, over nine hundred entries that cover archaeological sites, political, and economic development, and articles on religion, trade, and warfare.

Contains over three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about people, places, events, and organizations that have figured prominently in international terrorism, covering aerial hijacking, cyberterrorism, the Unabomber, and many other topics.

Contains approximately four hundred alphabetized, cross-referenced articles on Africa before 500 C.E., covering places, peoples, languages, practices, gods and goddesses, and other topics.

Provides information about various aspects of life in the past, highlighting notable events and achievements in prehistoric Europe, covering, geography, the development of Europe, economy, settlement, trade and transport, industry and crafts, religion, death and burial, warfare, language, literature, the arts, and society. Includes maps, drawings, and photographs.

Provides summaries of the terms of over four hundred international agreements, grouped by chronological era from ancient Mesopotamia to the end of the twentieth century; and includes introductory essays that discuss significant trends and events in international relations for each era.

Contains a collection of alphabetically arranged entries related to the history and evolution of censorship in society.

Presents illustrations and information on various topics in four areas of prehistory: the evolving Earth, evolving life, dinosaurs, and the first humans.