The Guinness history fact book - Guinness Publishing

"The Guinness History Fact Book" provides a wide range of key historical data for students and general readers in a compact and accessible format. It is a useful source of reference for checking historical dates, and an accessible way of acquiring "must-have" knowledge about the crucial periods, movements and turning-points of world history.;The book consists of three sections: a brief of the world; time charts and a factfinder. A brief history of the world is a series of six thematic articles depicting the key periods of world history from the ancient world to the post-Cold War period, accompanied by informative maps presenting an impressive range of historical information in visual form, including movements of peoples, the growth of empires and the progress of major conflicts.;The articles will be accompanied by a number of features focusing on the key movements and turning points of the period in question, such as the Fall of Rome, the Black Death, the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Russian Revolutions and the decline of Communism.;The time charts provide an at-a-glance chronological guide to key dates and events from prehistory to the present.;The factfinder is an A-Z of some 3000 entries providing essential factual information about rulers, statesmen, nation-states, battles, treaties and ideologies. The entries will be supported by chronologies of important historical events for each of the world's nation-states and exhaustive lists of "kings, rulers and statesmen" for the world's leading nations. Other comprehensive listings include popes and Holy Roman Emperors.