Volume One: Birth of Civilization to 1700   Message:  This highly visual, brief text provides and engaging overview of human civilization. The Teaching & Learning Classroom edition of the highly successful Heritage of World Civilizations , Seventh Edition, provides your students with the most help available in reading, thinking about, and applying the material they learn in the text and in the classroom. A series of pedagogical aids, and in-text and additional study resources (as well as complete instructor presentational and assessment support), both make this text the perfect choice for those looking to make history come alive for their students.   Story:  Written by leading historians, this is the book that will change the way you feel about history. Prentice Hall developed this text to bring history to your students with more visual appeal than ever.  This is the book that they will want to read because it is interesting.  They will think about what you’re reading because it has relevance to their life. With this book and the multimedia tools we crafted to accompany it, your students will truly experience history’s dramatic trials and passionate triumphs in a way that adds meaning to their own life. And they will score better on tests because preparation will be easier and less time–consuming than they ever dreamed possible.