About This Product
Ancient and Medieval History provides thorough coverage of world history from prehistory through the mid-1500s, with special Topic Centers on key civilizations and regions, including the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome; ancient and medieval Africa, Asia, and the Americas; and medieval Europe and the Islamic World. Each civilization’s history is brought to life through tablet/mobile-friendly videos and slideshows, primary sources, maps and graphs, timelines, suggested readings, and suggested search terms. All the Infobase history databases in a collection are fully cross-searchable.
Highlights:
- Comprehensive Coverage: With Ancient and Medieval History, users can delve deep into their topics or examine different perspectives through event and topic entries, slideshows, primary sources, images, tablet/mobile-friendly videos, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies of key people, original maps and charts, and more.
- Easy Access to Content: Featured content in Ancient and Medieval History is handpicked by our editors to inform research and provide guided entryways into the database, plus convenient links to key areas are at the top of every page.
- Editorially Curated Topic Centers: Ancient and Medieval History features specially selected content—including articles, sharable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—that provides a study guide for a particular civilization. Topic Centers include:
- Ancient and Medieval Africa: 5000 BCE–1500 CE
- Ancient Egypt: 5000 BCE–650 CE
- Ancient Near East: 4000 BCE–650 CE
- Ancient Greece: 3300 BCE–30 BCE
- Ancient and Medieval Asia: 3000 BCE–1600 CE
- The Americas: 2000 BCE–1500 CE
- Ancient Rome: 800 BCE–500 CE
- Medieval Europe: 500 CE–1500 CE
- Islamic World: 570 CE–1500 CE.
- Suggested Research Topics: Each Topic Center in Ancient and Medieval History includes handpicked selections showcasing the best resources for each topic—including in-depth overview essays—and providing guidance for research.
- Primary Sources: Ancient and Medieval History includes hundreds of primary sources, many with introductions that provide context and background.
- Videos, Images, Maps, and Slideshows: Ancient and Medieval History’s videos and original slideshows provide a fascinating visual introduction to key topics and themes.
- Biographies: Under “Featured People,” Ancient and Medieval History includes helpful lists of notable archaeologists, notable ancient writers, famous Roman emperors, important pharaohs and queens of Egypt, great military leaders, popes, and famous philosophers. Each list includes dates of birth and death, a brief descriptor of the person’s achievements, and a link to relevant search results.
- Overview Essays: Ancient and Medieval History includes substantial and thorough overview essays giving extensive background on relevant historical topics and eras.
- Book Chapters: Chapters from authoritative print titles written by noted historians complement the thousands of encyclopedia entries, biographies, definitions, and other resources Ancient and Medieval History provides. Book chapters allow for original thinking and are ideal for an in-depth study of a topic.
- Authoritative Source List: Ancient and Medieval History features a complete inventory, by type, of the extraordinary amount of expertly researched and written content in the database, including articles from a wealth of award-winning proprietary and distinguished print titles, primary sources, images, videos, timelines, and a list of contributors to the database—information researchers can trust.
- Curriculum Tools: This section of Ancient and Medieval History features writing and research tips for students and educators, including:
- Advice on analyzing and understanding editorial cartoons, primary sources, and online sources
- Guides for presenting research, including avoiding plagiarism, citing sources, completing a primary source worksheet, summarizing articles, and writing research papers
- Educator tools, including advice on preventing plagiarism and using editorial cartoons in class.
- Full Cross-Searchability: Ancient and Medieval History is fully cross-searchable with any combination of the other Infobase History Research Center databases to which your institution subscribes.
Features:
- Search by Common Core, national, state, provincial, International Baccalaureate Organization, C3 Framework for Social Studies, and College Board AP standards to find correlating articles
- Convenient A-to-Z topic lists that can be filtered by Topic Center
- Tag “clouds” for all content, linking to related material
- Searchable timelines, including a detailed general timeline, updated monthly, plus civilization-specific timelines
- Maps and graphs with descriptions
- Real-time, searchable Reuters® newsfeed
- Dynamic citations in MLA, Chicago, and Harvard formats, with EasyBib export functionality
- Read Aloud tool
- Ability for users to set preferences for default language, citation format, number of search results, and standards set for correlations
- Persistent record links
- Search Assist technology
- Searchable Support Center with valuable help materials, how-to tips, tutorials, and live help chat
- Google Translate for 100+ languages.
“…will be particularly useful for teachers and librarians to use as a teaching and research tool…useful to students in the middle and high school grades researching on this topic.”
American Reference Books Annual
“…[goes] into great depth…and feature[s] primary sources that are useful and often required for assignments.”
Library Journal
“…highly recommended for small and medium-sized public, academic, and school libraries…easy to use…extremely student-friendly.”
Booklist
“…very useful…a gorgeous update on an already superlative…database.”
VOYA
“…excellent, vast and comprehensive…highly recommend[ed]…”
Reference Reviews
“…comprehensive…the Topic Centers Index is an excellent forum for getting a feel for the content.”
Library Journal
“…encapsulates the classical and medieval world into one streamlined package…puts copious amounts of information at the click of a mouse…”
Booklist
Ancient and Medieval History: The Art of China, The Silk Road, and More
Approximately 570 video clips have just been added to Ancient and Medieval History, including clips from two series from the BBC: The Art of China and The Silk Road: Where East Met West. Read More ›
Ancient and Medieval History: The Art of China, The Silk Road, and More
Approximately 570 video clips have just been added to Ancient and Medieval History, including clips from two series from the BBC: The Art of China and The Silk Road: Where East Met West.
In The Art of China, Andrew Graham-Dixon sets out to discover what makes Chinese art and sculpture so intriguing and unique. With access to the very best of China’s art over 3,000 years, he explores the historical context in which the paintings, sculptures and other pieces were created so that we can better appreciate them. The series takes Graham-Dixon on an extraordinary journey around China, visiting stunning locations that inspired Chinese artists over the centuries as he assesses Chinese art from 1000 BC to the present day.
Covering 5,000 miles, passing through 13 countries, and crossing some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet, The Silk Road: Where East Met West tells the fascinating story of the lucrative trade route that changed the course of civilization forever. Dr. Sam Willis explores how the fortunes of the West were shaped by the East, beginning with the story of a Chinese emperor who was so desperate to protect his lands against his enemies that he reached out beyond his borders into the unknown, for one of the most important game changers in human history—horses. And in return for these legendary steeds, the emperor was willing to trade the most precious material in his world, silk.
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Ancient and Medieval History: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Ancient and Medieval History has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Read More ›
Ancient and Medieval History: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Ancient and Medieval History has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource.
Recent Updates and Additions:
- Articles: Added more than 380 new entries on world mythology, the Inca, and women in medieval Europe.
- Maps: Added 50 new proprietary maps and genealogy charts, including:
- Detailed maps of temple complexes in ancient Egypt
- Genealogies of the major Roman dynasties
- Maps showing the migration of people at the end of the Roman Empire
- Maps of the Inca Empire and pre-Inca civilizations in South America.
- Primary sources: Added 35 new documents with detailed introductory notes, including excerpts from:
- The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Persian Cyrus Cylinder
- The Persian Behistun inscriptions
- The Nigerian Kano Chronicle
- The Byzantine Alexiad by the famous princess Anna Comnena
- The Chinese Book of History (Shujing).
- Videos: Added 40 new videos from the History Channel, including:
- A documentary on the 15th-century plague
- A seven-part series on the engineering accomplishments of ancient civilizations
- In Search of History episodes on topics ranging from the Great Wall of China to the Celts and the Pyramids of Giza.
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Additional Databases Added to Infobase Search API
With the abundance of electronic resources available today, many schools prefer to access their educational assets in one place. Federated search engines and other discovery tools allow libraries to do just that—easily search through multiple content sources in their catalog at the same time. Read More ›
Additional Databases Added to Infobase Search API
With the abundance of electronic resources available today, many schools prefer to access their educational assets in one place. Federated search engines and other discovery tools allow libraries to do just that—easily search through multiple content sources in their catalog at the same time.
The Infobase Search API (XML Gateway) allows our discovery tool partners to easily integrate the data from Infobase products into their federated search solutions for our shared customers. It provides a much-needed “communication bridge” between Infobase content and those discovery tools.
The databases that are currently part of the Infobase API include:
- Health Reference Center
- American History Online
- Modern World History Online
- African-American History Online
- American Indian History Online
- Ancient and Medieval History Online
- Science Online.
More Infobase products will continue to be added to the Infobase API.
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History Research Center: Exciting New Content Added
We are delighted to announce our latest update to our five Infobase history databases (History Research Center)—valuable new entries, articles, and videos. Read More ›
History Research Center: Exciting New Content Added
We are delighted to announce our latest update to our five Infobase history databases (History Research Center)—valuable new entries, articles, and videos.
More Than 3,300 New and Updated Entries and More Than 770 New Videos (9,500+ Clips)
History Research Center now features a wealth of new content on both timely and evergreen subjects from critically acclaimed Facts On File, Chelsea House, and Wiley-Blackwell series, along with videos from some of the most recognized and trusted film producers in the world. The new scholarly articles and video titles cover topics from immigration, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Latin American history to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Roman Republic, the medieval world, and many more. The updated content on American presidents, first ladies, vice presidents, and Supreme Court justices is ideal for providing background and context to support election-year studies!
New entries include:
- Immigration and Race Relations in America
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The 1936–1944 Campaigns
- Political History of the Ancient World
- The Idea of a “Middle Ages”
- Syrian Civil War.
New videos include:
- The Constitution and Foundations of Government
- What Kennedy Didn’t Know: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
- Inside the Medieval Mind
- Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers His “I Have a Dream” Speech ca. 1963
- The Explorers: Five Europeans Who Redrew the Map of the World.
History Research Center includes five history databases, all fully cross-searchable and seamlessly integrated for a complete, single history resource. The databases included with History Research Center are American History Online, African-American History Online, American Indian History Online, Ancient & Medieval History Online, and Modern World History Online.
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