Hodder Education Caribbean History: Empires and Conquests
Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary.
- Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations to more recent 21st Century events.
- Prepare students for studies at CSEC level with a solid grounding in Caribbean history.
- Provide practice in many different skill areas with activities, including 'What would you do?' problem solving activities.
- Encourage students to compare and contrast past events with more recent ones with 'Then and Now' feature.
- Inspire interest with relevant archaeological information from the region as well as career options related to the subject as part of the 'Did you know?' feature.
- Reinforce learning and test knowledge through comprehensive revision questions.
- Cover
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- Contents
- 1 Introduction to History
- 2 Egypt: The Gift of the Nile
- 3 An Ancient Civilisation: Mesopotamia
- 4 Ancient Greece and Rome
- 5 China
- 6 India from Ancient Times to the Mughal Empire
- 7 The Mayas, Aztecs and Incas
- 8 The Amerindians of the Caribbean
- 9 Europe from the Middle Ages to the Reformation
- 10 Inventions and the Beginnings of Exploration
- 11 Europe and the Wider World
- 12 Africa and the Wider World
- 13 The Encounter of Two Worlds
- 14 Clash of Cultures
- 15 The Challenge to Spain
- 16 From Tobacco to Sugar
- 17 How Sugar was Grown and Made
- 18 The Slave Trade
- 19 The Experience of Enslavement
- 20 Control and Resistance in Slave Societies
- 21 The Maroons
- 22 The Free and the Enslaved
- 23 Colony and Metropolis
- 24 Caribbean Towns
- 25 What is Culture?
- 26 Culture in pre-Emancipation Society
- Revision Exercises
