For Ages
7 to 10

Warriors is a part of the Magic Tree House Fact Tracker A Stepping Stone Book collections.

Track the facts about warriors, weapons, and battles throughout history in this nonfiction companion to the #1 bestselling Magic Tree House series!

When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #31: Warriors in Winter, they had lots of questions. What kinds of weapons did the ancient Greeks use? How did Roman soldiers fight? Why did knights have tournaments? Who was famous for his war elephants? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about ancient warriors.

Filled with up-to-date information, photographs, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discover in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.

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An Excerpt fromWarriors

Wars and warriors have been around for thousands of years. Our earliest ancestors didn’t have large armies. They fought in small groups or tribes over hunting rights or for natural resources like water.
Much of what we know about ancient warfare comes from archaeologists (arkee-AH-luh-jists). They are scientists who learn how people lived long ago by studying the objects they used.
In 1964, a team of archaeologists was working near the River Nile in Sudan. They discovered a graveyard that was over 13,000 years old. Fifty-nine skeletons lay close together. Twenty-seven had battle injuries. One body was found with thirty-nine pieces of flint from arrows and other flint-tipped weapons!
We don’t know why these people were fighting. But their skeletons give us clues about the weapons they used so long ago.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is now Iraq and parts of nearby countries. About 10,000 years ago, people settled in southern Mesopotamia in a region called Sumer. Sumer was made up of several different city-states. City-states are like small countries that include…

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