We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and ideas. Inventors created marvels like the elephant water...

Introduces readers to history's greatest civilizations and the monuments they created, providing liftable flaps that show what these places look like today.

Describes a succession of human habitations in western Europe as they represent the development of civilization over thousands of years, from the caves of Stone Age hunters to modern apartment houses.