While evolution and human progress are undeniably complex subjects, they become comprehensible and interesting with this visual guide. A "choose your own adventure" in history, readers 8 to 12 can follow the arrows that link to charts on related topics throughout the book. Exploring the development of farming, the origins of writing, religion, art, trade, weapons, the first cities, and the growth of technology in the modern age, this visual compendium of wonders also stops off to discuss such perennial topics of curiosity as Stonehenge, the Romans, the Vikings, and the Black Death.