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- Written in easy-to-understand language and uses consistently familiar vocabulary to encourage reluctant readers.
- Fact boxes and sidebars highlight key information.
- Includes glossary, index, and resources list
National Social Studies Standards, Grades 5-8
- Time, Continuity, and Change: II
- Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity.
- People, Places, and Environments: III
- Describe ways that historical events have been influenced by, and have influenced, physical and human geographic factors in local, regional, national, and global settings.