Need to know how the Olympic games started? How the Romans governed their empire? When Queen Hatshepsut ruled Egypt? What Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, and Mohammed taught? How the feudal system worked in Europe and Japan? What the capital of modern Turkey is?

Everything You Need to Know About World History Homework provides fourth to sixth grade students and their parents with the information they need to complete world history assignments. With the help of Dial-A-Teacher, which has operated a telephone help line since 1979, the authors have compiled this word history reference guide with easy to understand answers to students' most frequently asked questions. No other source offers such a full range of information directly related to the fourth through sixth grade world history curriculum.

1. Ancient history
2. Asia
3. The byzantine and muslim empires
4. Africa
5. The americas
6. Europe
7. The modern world