This scheme takes an investigative approach to history, developing pupils' thinking skills as they explore the subject. There are tasks designed to ensure progression, plus integrated extended writing to develop literacy skills.

"Foundation Editions" offer a lower narrative level to enable less-able pupils to understand the subject. Re-phrased questions support and direct their thinking skills, helping them to explore history for themselves.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.