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bookcover Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society
Seventh Edition

Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York
Myrna Chase, Baruch College, City University of New York
James R. Jacob, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Margaret C. Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles
Theodore H. Von Laue, Clark University


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ACE Questions
Review important key concepts with multiple choice and true/false self-tests.
Review Questions
Click here for review questions for each chapter. After you've read a chapter, answer each question.
Web Exercises
Enter here to learn more about the civilizations discussed in the text by linking to a variety of interesting primary documents and art images via the World Wide Web. Each activity invites you to draw comparisons and conclusions based on your discoveries.
Matching Exercises
Trying to get your head around so many names, dates, and events? These activities will help strengthen your knowledge of some key ideas, events, and people in each chapter.
Chronologies
Click here to view chronologies from the text and review major events.
Chapter Summaries
Click here for summaries of each chapter.
Using Primary Sources
Your textbook includes a breadth of excerpts from important peices of literature as well as images of artifacts and works of art. Historians call these primary sources, and your ability to analyze them is critical to becoming a successful history student. These excercises offer creative ways for you to think critically about both literary and visual sources in each chapter. Each activity is based on a primary source excerpt, or visual source from the main text.
Interactive Maps
100 interactive maps with questions to test your knowledge of history and geography, grouped by major historical periods.
Primary Sources
Hundreds of primary source documents with questions to test your analysis of historical evidence, grouped by major historical periods.
 


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