This fully interactive CD-ROM covers six major time periods, addressing topics from a variety of themes and perspectives. It contains text, photos, video, audio, animations, interactive exercises, simulations, and graphics that present and explain topics in a visually exciting and stimulating manner. Students select the time period and country they want to explore from a map and timeline on the screen. Activities from each region and time period can be arranged by theme, country, or chronologically, depending on what and how the student wants to study.