I used to love this series of books when I was in primary school a couple of years ago, it is easy to read and full of interesting and sometimes gruesome facts. I was only disappointed that my Primary School only had 1 or 2 books from the Horrible History series.
Separated into 9 chapters, including Introduction & Epilogue, and within each chapter are a number of sections, this book is easy to read & collect information from.
Intended for children from 8-11 it strongly goes against teachers and gives children the truth, no matter how gruesome, for example the Aztecs sacrificed 50,000 people a year, that's 1,000 a week, 6 every hour and 1 every 10 minutes, that's man, women & mainly children (because they are more innocent, so the Gods would prefer them)
It also tells you how the Spanish Conquistadors and how they brought small pox to Central America, which wiped out thousands of Aztecs. Plus how on the walls of an Aztec temple there were 136,000 human skulls. Furthermore the Aztecs played a sport a lot like Basketball, in which the losers were slaughtered & the winners could have anything they wanted which the losers own.
The illustrations, as like all of his books are drawn by Martin Brown, the are not spectacular or any thing special, but they play a big part in the book although being cartoons.
It tells you everything from the Aztec lifestyle, from what they ate to how they got married, in the 'Live like an Aztec' & 'Eat like an Aztec' chapters. However my favourite chapter has to be the 'Cunning Conquistadors', where it tells you how the 508 Conquistadors, with their 11 horses, defeated an entire of over 2 million Aztecs.Terry Deary has written a lot of books including:
The Awesome Egyptians And that is only a few of the many he has written, plus with 'Awful Egyptians,' 'Dublin,' 'Stratford Upon-Avon' & many sticker books next month.
This book is not for sensitive children, although it is a mainly light hearted book and tries to tell the facts in a funny way, some of the facts are quite gruesome. Nevertheless the book is extremely interesting for children and adults aswell, because of the facts that appear in this book have never been highlighted in any other books, plus it is not a hard going book. I don't understand why it has been put in the fiction centre, when it is a factual book. So I hope nobody gets the wrong impression on this book, plus I am surprised not to see a number of other Horrible History books on Ciao.
According to the opening section of Horrible Histories: Angry Aztecs, this book will teach ... more
a little bit of history and a lot about people, but the most important thing is that it will teach children everywhere how to drive their teachers stark, starin...
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According to the opening section ofHorrible Histories: Angry Aztecs, this book will teach ... more
a little bit of history and a lot about people, but the most important thing is that it will teach children everywhere how to drive their teachers stark, staring...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
According to the opening section of Horrible Histories: Angry Aztecs, this book will teach ... more
a little bit of history and a lot about people, but the most important thing is that it will teach children everywhere how to drive their teachers stark, starin...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
According to the opening section ofHorrible Histories: Angry Aztecs, this book will teach ... more
a little bit of history and a lot about people, but the most important thing is that it will teach children everywhere how to drive their teachers stark, staring...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Mar 4th, 2006
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