The books in the World History series features reading selections in the content area and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true/false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Hands-on activities, research opportunities, and mapping exercises engage students in learning about the history and culture of civilizations around the world. A downloadable version of the reading text at a 4-5 grade reading level is included for struggling readers. Each book is also correlated to state, national, and provincial standards.

This book is the third volume in the final report of the cleaning and excavations at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement of Vronda--located near Kavousi in eastern Crete--that were conducted between 1983 and 1992. The reports on the houses of the settlement in their context, with focused analyses of specific buildings, can be found in two previous volumes: Kavousi IIA (Day, Klein, and Turner 2009) and Kavousi IIB (Day and Glowacki 2012). Detailed analyses of the architecture, pottery, other finds (including figurines and stone tools), and botanical and faunal remains are presented in this third...