Questions Dictionary of History
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2010
98 pages
978-1-4411-0323-9 (ISBN)
Description
Who were the Aztecs? When was the Battle of Britain? What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
The Questions Dictionary of History provides an A-Z of major events in world history.
The book provides snapshots of famous people, key facts and events and illustrations so that children can consolidate their learning. Designed for use at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3, The Questions Dictionary of History will also be a very useful revision aid for older children.
Its content has been chosen to include words within the capabilities of pupils in the primary and early secondary years of schooling. All words are relevant to the teaching and learning of art in the National Curriculum. This dictionary will make a valuable addition to any classroom's collection of basic reference books and to every school's library of books on the subject of history.
The Questions Dictionary of History provides an A-Z of major events in world history.
The book provides snapshots of famous people, key facts and events and illustrations so that children can consolidate their learning. Designed for use at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3, The Questions Dictionary of History will also be a very useful revision aid for older children.
Its content has been chosen to include words within the capabilities of pupils in the primary and early secondary years of schooling. All words are relevant to the teaching and learning of art in the National Curriculum. This dictionary will make a valuable addition to any classroom's collection of basic reference books and to every school's library of books on the subject of history.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-0323-9 (9781441103239)
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Joy Palmer
Questions Dictionary of History
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01/2001
Questions Publishing Co Ltd
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Person
Joy Palmer is Professor of Education and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Durham. She is the author of numerous books, including titles in the Stanley Thornes' Blueprints series.
Content
- Intro
- The Questions Dictionary of HISTORY
- To the teacher
- Dictionary Entries
- Abdicate
- Act of Supremacy
- AD
- Agricultural revolution
- Alexander the Great
- Alfred the Great
- Allied Powers
- American civil war
- American war of independence
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Anglo-Saxons
- Archaeology
- Archive
- Armada
- Armistice
- Armour
- Artefact
- Assyrian Empire
- Aztec civilisation
- Battle of Britain
- Battle of Hastings
- Bayeux Tapestry
- BC
- Benin
- Black Death
- Blitz
- British Empire
- Bronze Age
- Buddhism
- Byzantine Empire
- Caesar, Julius
- Captain Cook
- Castles
- Celts
- Charlemagne
- Christianity
- Chronology
- Churchill, Winston
- Civil rights
- Colonies
- Columbus, Christopher
- Commonwealth
- Communism
- Conflict
- Conquest
- Court
- Crimean War
- Cromwell, Oliver
- Crusades
- da Vinci, Leonardo
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Dissolution of the monasteries
- Domesday Book
- Drake, Francis
- Dynasty
- Emperor Augustus
- Empire
- English civil war
- English Renaissance
- European Union
- Evidence
- Factory
- Factory Act
- Farming
- Fascism
- Fawkes, Guy
- Feudalism
- First World War
- French Revolution
- Government
- Great Exhibition
- Great Fire of London
- Great Plague
- Gunpowder Plot
- Heraldry
- Hieroglyphics
- Hinduism
- Hiroshima
- History
- Hitler
- Holocaust
- Holy Roman Empire
- Houses of history
- Hundred Years War
- Imperialism
- Incas
- Indigenous people
- Indus Valley
- Industrial revolution
- Interpretation
- Invasion
- Iron Age
- Islam
- King Arthur
- King Charles I
- King Edward I
- King Henry VII
- King Henry VIII
- King James VI & I
- Law
- Legacy
- Lenin
- Longship
- Lord of the manor
- Magellan, Ferdinand
- Magna Carta
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Mary Rose
- Maya
- Medieval
- Middle Ages
- Mogul Empire
- Monarch
- Monastery
- Mussolini
- Myths and legends
- Napoleon I
- Nationalism
- Nazis
- Newton, Isaac
- Nobility
- Norman Conquest
- Normans
- Odin
- Ottoman Empire
- Pagan
- Parliament
- Persian Wars
- Peter the Great
- Pharaohs
- Prehistoric
- Prophet Muhammad
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Queen Mary I
- Queen Victoria
- Reformation
- Regent
- Renaissance
- Republic
- Restoration
- Revolution
- Roman Conquest
- Romans
- Russian Revolution
- Second World War
- Settlement
- Shih Huang Ti
- Slavery
- Society
- Sovereign
- Space age
- Spanish conquest
- Stalin
- Steam power
- Stone Age
- Stuarts
- Suez Canal
- Suffragette movement
- Sumerians
- Trade
- Transport
- Treason
- Tsar
- Tudors
- Tutankhamun
- United Nations
- Venerable Bede
- Victory
- Vikings
- War
- Wars of the Roses
- Welfare state
- Windsor
