Global History & Geography: The Growth of Civilizations

A comprehensive chronicle of world history

• Designed to provide enough content for a two-year course of study.
• Thorough timelines and unique primary sources.
• Explores geographic, cultural, economic, and political influences on human development.
• Human-interest vignettes introduce each chapter, illustrating larger historical issues, events, and movements.
• Descriptions of physical environments link geography to historical events.
• Highlight social history, cultural and economic trends, and political figures and issues.
• Frequent "surveys of the physical environment" place historical developments in their geographic contexts.
• Assessments require both written and oral responses and include multiple-choice, thematic essay, and document-based questions.
• Teacher Manual contains unit and chapter objectives, lesson plans and suggestions to aid in implementing instruction, activities for extending lessons, and an Answer Key.