The Activity Book turns The Story of the World Volume 1: Ancient Times Text into a full year of history and geography study! Provides curated reading lists, map work, coloring pages, review questions, exercises, and hands-on projects to bring modern history to life. Includes teacher instructions and one set of consumable student pages.Subtitled "From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor," this volume covers early writing and farming, ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, the Hebrew people, Babylonians, Assyrians, ancient India, ancient China, ancient Africa, Phoenicians, Ancient Greeks, Persia, the Roman empire, the collapse of the Roman empire, early Christianity, Attila the Hun and other barbarians. Volume One was revised in 2006 and now features more illustrations, maps, several timelines and additional parent/teacher notes. The text is available in either paperback and hardcover, and the Activity Book is a bound paperback.