- A comprehensive series designed to showcase particular features of a country.- Provides maps, timeline, fast facts, charts, and vivid four-color photographs.- Full-colored maps, photos, and interesting sidebars complement the text.- Also included are a timeline, fast facts, and a to find out more section.Curriculum Standards: Grades 5-8 Social StudiesCulture: I- Explain how language, literature, the arts, architecture, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors contribute to the development and transmissions of culture.Time, Continuity, and Change: II- Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, change, and conflict to explain and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity.People, Places, and Environments: III- Elaborate mental maps of locales, regions, and the world that demonstrate understanding of relative location, direction, size, and shape.