Factastic Millennium Facts

by Russell Ash

Book Overview

An insight into the milestone and events that have shaped our world over the last 1000 years. Packed with key political, social and cultural developments, it charts the march of civilization and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078944710X
• ISBN13: 9780789447104
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Great History Book!

I liked this book because it starts in year 1000 and ends with year 2000 celebrations. For each year, this book tells you at least one important thing that happened in that year. For example, here's what it lists in 1985 (I picked this very important year because that's when I was born!): The unseeded West German tennis player, 17-year-old Boris Becker, makes history whe he becomes the youngest Wimbeldon Men's Singles Champion. and... Holland's Phillips and Japan's Sony introduce the CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read-Only Memory. and... A 48-game chess match betweent world champion Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov, both of the USSR, ends after 5 months due to Karpov's exhaustion. Karpov eventually loses his title to the 22-year-old Kasparov. and... One person is killed when the GREENPEACE ship Rainbow Warrior, in the South Pacific to disrupt French nuclear tests, is sunk by an explosion in Auckland, New Zealand, two French service agents are later found guilty of manslaughter and sabotage. AND..... The Nevada del Ruiz VOLCANO erupts in Colombia, killing some 25,000 people. I also liked how this book was divided into age periods, The Age of Religion, The Age of Conquest, The Age of Expansion, The Age of Revelation, The Age of Commerce, The Age of Revolution, The Age of Industry, The Age of Technology, adn Celebration. A very cool book!