Books with author Jane Shuter

How did the people of Ancient Egypt live? What was their social, economic, political, and cultural life like? How did their values and attitudes help shape our world. This title answers these questions and more with informative text, colorful photographs and original source materials, and clear maps and diagrams to show readers what life was like in ancient civilizations.

Much of Greece is covered by mountains. This made it hard to travel around by land in ancient times. But Greece is also surrounded by sea on three sides, and has many islands around the mainland. So the sea was always important to the ancient Greeks. They traveled by sea as much as they could. This meant they needed harbors to land in. Some of these harbors grew into ports – places where ships came from all over ancient Greece. Ports were especially useful to traders, because they could meet there to trade.

What is a seal? How was the Indus Valley ruled? Why did the Indus Valley civilization disappear? The Indus Valley answers these questions and more. The books in the History Opens Windows series help you discover what life was like in ancient civilizations and other historic times. Learn what the Indus Valley people wore, what they ate, how they traveled from place to place, and find out how we know about them today.

Through archeological excavations and artifacts, readers get the real story of life in ancient civilizations including common experiences for children and adults, as well as comparisons between the lives of different societal classes. Each book explores the idiosyncrasies of daily life in an ancient civilization from religion, to government, to warfare.

How did the people of Ancient China live? What were their social, economic, political, and cultural lives like? How did their values and attitudes help shape our world? This title answers these questions and more with informative text, colorful photographs and original source materials, and clear maps and diagrams to show readers what life was like in ancient civilizations.

What was it like to live in Ancient Athens? All the people who lived in ancient Greece spoke the same language and worshipped the same gods and goddesses. But they all lived in different city states – a city and the land around it that it controlled. These city states were all run differently, and there were often fights between them. Despite their differences, there were things that united the city states. Find out more in this exciting title.