visual timeline of history

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Timelines of History: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World
Book by D.K. Publishing
Beginning with the emergence of our earliest African ancestors and taking readers through the history of cultures and nations around the world to arrive at the present day, "Timelines of History" cate…
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Original titleSmithsonian Timelines of History: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World
Originally publishedSeptember 19, 2011
Author D.K. Publishing
GenreHistory · Reference · Nonfiction · World History · Science · The World · Historical
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The partnership between the Smithsonian and D. K. Publishing has created another wonderful volume. Havin…
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The partnership between the Smithsonian and D. K. Publishing has created another wonderful volume. Having the treasures of the Smithsonian museums and research centers to draw on has melded well with the skills of D. K. in graphic presentationThe book is a broad survey that includes anthropology, sociology, genetics, history, technology and much more. That is its virtue and its curse. While a synthesizing timeline runs across the bottom of each page, what you are confronted with jumps back and forth from one topic to another in most time periods. I am as easily distracted as Dug in the movie “Up,” but also easily delighted by the next thing that pops in front of my eyes. Civilizations show their artifacts; burial sites reveal skeletons' changes in dress; the invention of writing is evaluated; wars occur; empires (from the Babylonians to beyond the Brits) rise and fall; popular movements are showcased; and engineering marvels are explained.About a decade old, I am sure it is due for some update, but the stuff you are likely to be most interested in is already there. Enjoy
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Oooh, I LOVE this book. It is amazing. DK has really out-done itself this time. I am working on finally getting up a homes…
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Oooh, I LOVE this book. It is amazing. DK has really out-done itself this time. I am working on finally getting up a homeschool timeline (now that I have a long, empty hallway), and this book is my inspiration. From the earliest origins of humans to last year's Arab revolutions, every page is lavishly illustrated and packed with well-organized historical happenings. The timeline runs along the bottom of each page, and above it is a nice summary of major events during whatever century/decade/year is being portrayed. I could (and have) browse through it for hours, taking in everything that was happening worldwide during, say, the reign of William the Conqueror, or the early 19th century when Jane Austen was writing, or around 600 B.C. when Lehi left Jerusalem. So fascinating to have a visual portrayal of what Charlotte Mason called "the pageant of history."It was so weird to me to get to the end (the book devotes a whole page to 2011), and see the Tunisian revolution, and think back to how I was there, and following it day by day as it unfolded. There it was, the history I had witnessed myself, right there written up the same as the Battle of Thermopylae. History marches on.
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A Book Too Far …This book was reviewed as part of Amazon's Vine program which included a free copy of th…
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A Book Too Far …This book was reviewed as part of Amazon's Vine program which included a free copy of the book.As a huge fan of DK’s line of reference books (I’ve collected over 25 volumes), TIMELINES OF HISTORY missed the mark for me presentation-wise.TIMELINES OF HISTORY covers world history from the first evidence of humans to present day. This meaty volume (500 pages) crams A LOT of information into a relatively “small” book (it’s not the large, coffee-table sized hardcover book I’m accustomed to using). DK has always been good at taking a broad subject and breaking it down into smaller, detailed portions that are easy and enjoyable to consume. But, I found the breadth material covered in this book condensed into a format that was more convoluted and confusing than I would have expected.TIMELINES OF HISTORY is divided into seven chronological chapters (periods of history) with an eighth chapter that serves as a directory that summarizes several topics. Each chapter (historical period) has its pages marked with a corresponding color banner which allows readers to navigate-by-sight to specific historical periods. The bottom of each page includes a timeline detailing specific historical moments with the text above generally illustrating the items noted on the time line. As with most DK volumes, there are plenty of pictures, insets, graphs, maps and factoids filling each page with bold print identifying specific people, places and events. The problem is that there are additional timelines within the timelines that capture specific events (like the evolution of the automobile, for example) and things start getting convoluted and frustrating. The textual content is arranged vertically to accommodate periods within each …
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