Features a giant, lavishly illustrated timeline that plot our journey through history and brings the past to life the earliest toolmakers to digital technology. Focuses in major events, such as the frenc revolution and the civil right movement, and the people who made history happen. shows what life was really like for children living im the past. includes more than 1.500 photographs, illustrations, maps, and grapics- the ultimate guide to the history of the word, century, year by year.