The first of a three-part series which aims to provide a complete history course for the whole of Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum. A teacher's set, including photocopiable worksheets, accompanies each pupil book.

The revised and updated 2nd Edition of the book General Awareness for Competitive Exams - SSC/ Banking/ Defence/ Railway/ Insurance contains specific topics in General Awareness powered with video course;which form a part of most of the competitive exams- SSC, Banking, Railway, defence, Insurance and other exams. # The book contains the description of the relevent theory along with latest updated information/ statistics followed by a Practice Exercise. # The book covers a lot of questions from the past competitive exams. All latest exam questions till 2022 have been included in the book. # 2500+ MCQs for practice. # The book is a must for all SSC/ Banking/ Railways/ defense/ Insurance and other exam aspirants. # This book mainly covers - History, Geography, Polity, Economics, Current Updates, Panorama, Environment, etc.

The book "General Awareness for Competitive Exams" contains specific topics in General Awareness which form a part of most of the Competitive Exams - SSC, Bank, Railway, Defence, Insurance and Other exams. This book covers - History, Geography, Polity, Economics, and Current Updates. The book contains the exhaustive theory with exercise. The book covers a lot of questions from the past years (2015-19) SSC exams. The book is a MUST for all SSC/ Banking/ Railways/ Defense/ Insurance and other Exam aspirants.

Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period when powerful dynasties governed both regions, to document the relationship between the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the arrival of the Europeans. Through a close analysis of the maps, geographic accounts, and travelogues compiled by both Chinese and Islamic writers, the book traces the development of major contacts between people in China and the Islamic world and explores their interactions on matters as varied as diplomacy, commerce, mutual understanding, world geography, navigation, shipbuilding, and scientific exploration. When the Mongols ruled both China and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, their geographic understanding of each other's society increased markedly. This rich, engaging, and pioneering study offers glimpses into the worlds of Asian geographers and mapmakers, whose accumulated wisdom underpinned the celebrated voyages of European explorers like Vasco da Gama.

The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.

This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic power dominating the area. The focus of the study--four cities on the Italian peninsula, and four in Syria and Egypt--is the interconnectedness of the design and use of urban structures, streets and open space. Each chapter offers an historical analysis of the buildings and spaces used for trade, education, political display and public action. The work includes historical and social analyses of the mercantile, social, political and educational cultures of the eight cities, highlighting similarities and differences between Christian and Islamic practices. Sixteen new maps drawn specifically for this book are based on the writings of medieval travelers.

Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.

A collection of essays examining the the concept of representing visions and dreams in the medieval period. Includes discussions of modern visions which highlight how our belief in the non-corporal world still exists.