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1) Bible lands
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text document life in Biblical times, surveying the clothing, food, and civilizations of a wide variety of cultures, including the Israelites, Babylonians, Persians, and Romans.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Language
English
Description
The Ultimate Human Experience
The interaction between mankind and spiritual beings-of Divine Encounters-as recorded in scriptures and ancient texts provides a powerful drama that spans Heaven and Earth, involving worship and devotion, eternity and mortality, love and sex, jealousy and murder. But how much of these are based on real happenings and how much is based on myth?
With a visionary's ardor and a scientist's attention to detail, Zecharia...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Zenobia, the proud daughter of a Syrian sheikh, refuses to marry against her will. She won't submit to a lifetime of subservience. When her father dies, she sets out on her own, pursuing the power she believes to be her birthright, dreaming of the Roman Empire's downfall and her ascendance to the throne. Defying her family, Zenobia arranges her own marriage to the most influential man in the city of Palmyra. But their union is anything but peaceful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Presents a study of the ancient Near East, looking at how archaeologists have learned about the region, and discussing the growth of towns and cities, technological developments, and invention of writing and its consequences, religion, law, wor k and workers, education, and other topics.
Author
Series
Earth chronicles volume III
Language
English
Description
Thousands of years ago, the Earth was a battlefield. These were the wars that would shape man's destiny-terrible conflicts that began lifetimes earlier on another planet. Parting the mists of time and myth, the internationally renowned scholar Zecharia Sitchin takes us back in this volume to the violent beginnings of the human story, when gods-not men-ruled the Earth. In a spellbinding reconstruction of epic events preserved in legends and ancient...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Uses activities and handicraft projects to reinforce information about the clothing, architecture, writing, work, food, and religion of the Egyptians, Mespotamians, Nubians, and Hittites who lived in the Near Eastin ancient times.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
This course explores the essential contours of the human experience in what has come to be called "Western civilization." From its humble beginnings in the ancient Near East to the dawn of the modern world, these presentations cover developments from about 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Americans are all, to a greater or lesser extent, inhabitants of a land shaped by the last five centuries of Western history and culture. Explores the ideas, events, and characters that molded Western political, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, scientific, technological, and economic history during the tumultuous period between the 16th and 20th centuries.
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