Books with title Ancient Civilizations Explained

Here's an exciting, hands-on collection of ideas and activities designed to introduce students to the fascinating world of the ancient Vikings. Learn about Viking citizens, politics, food, fashion, religion, currency, commerce, literature, art, architecture and travel. Through innovative group and individual projects, students discover the intricacies of Viking society and the accomplishments of one of history's most fascinating peoples, separating fact from fantasy as they examine the everyday lives of these infamous old world traders, raiders and explorers. Using Exploring Ancient Civilizations: Vikings as their guidebook to adventure, students replicate Viking jewelry, drinking horns, coins, board games and weapons; bake bread using a centuries-old Scandinavian recipe; draw gripping beasts; raise runestones; sail longships; write legends; and much, much more. Unique source materials add to the wealth of information included in this outstanding resource.

Inca gold no longer lures the conqueror - but the Quechua Indian still guides his llamas through the narrow-walled Inca streets of Cuzco, and the lost civilizations of Peru still call to the imagination across the centuries. And with reason - for radiocarbon dating places an embryonic civilization in Peru in 7566 BC, over 9000 years before Pizarro plundered the mature flowering of the Inca Empire. Other, less destructive, visitors have worked since then at Machu Picchu, at Cuzco, at Titicaca and myriad other sites to resurrect the rich variety of Inca and pre-Inca culture wiped out by the Spanish Conquest. The sum of their discoveries, archaeological, historical, artistic, geographical and ethnographical, is surveyed here by J.Alden Mason in a picture of the peoples and country of ancient Peru.