Primary sources in world history
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Europeans widened their world in a search for goods, land, raw materials, and other objects that created wealth in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. View documents, maps, art, and the words from the people and events that marked this interaction of world cultures.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial one in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the West caused one of the great upheavals in the history of the world. Words and images document the people, places, and events caught up in this transformative time.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The time period from the Fall of Rome to the middle of the fifteenth century is explained in the artwork created and the words spoken by people in various cultures. Read about the roles played by the Vikings, the Ottomans, the Chinese, Islam, Christianity, and even the Black Death in this tumultuous period.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Advancements in transportation, communication, and medicine made the world smaller, more connected, and more populated. This improved many lives but often brought nations into conflict. Documents, images, and the words of those caught up in key events provide context to the situation in our world today.
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Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Details the events of the Protestant Reformation, including early reformers, how it spread, and the Church's reaction, and includes samples of primary sources from the time period.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The rebirth of knowledge, art, and philosophy, and a rejuvenation of banking and business, mark the period known as the Renaissance. Follow the important events in this flourishing of Western culture through the words spoken and the works done by the people of this period.