CONTENTS Great Civilizations Architecture The Name Game Food and Drink Read All About It Wear It Out Going for a Song Great Minds 4 The Silver Screen 6 Carnivals and Festivals 8 A World of Soccer 10 The Olympic Games 12 Social Media 14 Mapping the World 16 Glossary and Websites 18 Index 20 22 24 26 28 30 31 32 Our creative planet If you reduced the world's population to just 100 people then an average person would not have a college degree own a computer or use social media However they would be able to read and write and they would be living on more than 2 a day LITERACY MALES O Can read and write 88 can't read and write 12 FEMALES O Can read and write 79 O Can't read and write 21 SOCIAL MEDIA 29 social media users COLLEGE DEGREE Have 7 Don't have 93 71 non soclal media users POVERTY OWNS OR SHARES A COMPUTER Yes 22 0 No 78 o Living on less than 2 a day 40 Living on more than 2 a day 60 RELIGIONS Christian 330 Hindu 140 other religions 12 Muslim 22 O Buddhist 7 Non religious 12
Great CIVILIZATIONS Since the first cities were founded more than 10 000 years ago rulers began extending the areas they controlled to create kingdoms and empires They also built huge monuments to show their power GREAT EMPIRES CAPITAL VE CAPITAL B C E HoLY ROMAN Vienna EMPIRE Bei IMPERIAL ing CHINA Memphis ANCIENT EGYPT Pataliputra Petra MAURYA NABATAEAN APITAL MEMS 300 B C E 106 C E CAPITAL PETRA 322 B C E 185 B C
LARGEST EMPIRES The largest empires covered millions of square miles Although the British Empire was the biggest it was scattered over several continents making the Mongol Empire the largest continuous empire the world has ever seen Spanish Empire 1492 1898 7 5 million sq miles 19 4 million sq km Umayyad Caliphate 661 751 C E 5 8 million sq miles 15 million sq km Empire British Mongol Russian Empire 1206 1368 Empire T 13 million sq miles 1721 1917 33 7 million sq km W 12 7 million sq miles 32 9 million sq km 1597 1997 8 8 million sq miles 22 8 million sq km IMPERIAL MONUMENTS 2000 B C E I697 C E CAPITAL CHICHEN ITZA More than 130 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt The largest is the Great Pyramid of Giza completed in 2580 B C E It weighs as much as 16 Empire State Buildings Chichen Itza MAYA 1100 C E 53 Other great monuments inochtitlán AZTE Cuzco Teotihuacán 100 c E Mexico INCA N ziggurat of Ur 2000 B C E raq 13oo C E IS21 C E CAPITAL TENOCHTITLAN Pyramids of Meroe 700 B C E Sudan Chichen Itza 1000 C E Tikal
