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The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Book 1
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What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi's tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last emperor of Rome? Told in a straightforward, engaging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer's... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Ashurbanipal: Ancient Assyrian king. Son of Esarhaddon and the last strong king of the Assyrian Empire. He is famed for amassing a large collection of cuneiform documents.
- Julius Caesar: About how the world came to be today.
- Gilgamesh: Fifth king of Uruk, modern day Iraq, ruling around 2500 BC. According to the Sumerian king list he reigned for 126 years. Gilgamesh is the central character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. In the epic his father was Lugalbanda and his mother was Ninsun, a goddess. In Mesopotamian mythology, Gilgamesh is a demigod of superhuman strength who built the city walls of Uruk to defend his people from external threats, and traveled to meet the sage Utnapishtim, who had survived the Great Deluge.
- Joseph: Add a description of this character.
- Alexander
- Anansi
- Cyrus
- Abram
- Servius
- Siddhartha
- Cleopatra
- Shi Huangdi
- Jacob
- Mary
- Cincinnatus
- Constantine
- Tarak
- Terah
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Howard Carter
- Dido
- Pompey
- Haran
- Thutmose
- Sarah
- Ganga
- Isaac
- Honoria
- Miriam
- Philip
- Harpagus
- Boadicea
- Hatshepsut
- Amytis
- Romulus
- Stilicho
- Orestes
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- New Kingdom Of Egypt
- Babylon
- India
- Mesopotamia
- Athens
- Greece
- China
- Assyria
- Italy
- Africa
- Canaan
- Britain
- Crete
- Carthage
- Persia
- Sparta
- Indus Valley
- Alexandria
- Asia Minor
- Ceres
- Thera
- Sahara
- Spain
- Judea
- South America
- Uruk
- Nineveh
- Warring States
- Paris
- Enkidu
- Yellow River Valley
- Hades
- Israel
- Wall
- Sargon
- Lower Egypt
- Jerusalem
- Ganges River
- Tigris
- Amun
- Middle Kingdom Of Egypt
- Sumer
- Jupiter
- Central America
- Euphrates River
First Sentence edit
Where do you live?
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 4 in The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child. (standard series)
Followed by The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages CDs.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Susan Wise Bauer (Author)
Awards edit
- Great History Book (September 2012: History, #10)
- Historic book Awared (September 2012: History, #1)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 372
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