The Story of the World

by Bauer, S. Wise

• ISBN13: 9780971412903
• ISBN10: 0971412901
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Well-Trained Mind Pr

Summary

This four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history-one chapter per week, one book per year. An accompanying Activity Book (see page 8) gives you exercises, maps, review questions, reading lists, and more, so you have an entire history curriculum at your fingertips! The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls, and is included in several reviews of "Best Homeschooling Materials." From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor.

Table of Contents

Introduction How Do We Know What Happened?	13	(8)
What is History?
What is Archaeology?
The Earliest People	21	(8)
The First Nomads
The First Nomads Become Farmers
Egyptians Lived on the Nile River	29	(6)
Two Kingdoms Become One
Gods of Ancient Egypt
The First Writing	35	(4)
The Old Kingdom of Egypt	39	(6)
Making Mummies
Egyptian Pyramids
The First Sumerian Dictator	45	(4)
The Jewish People	49	(10)
God Speaks to Abraham
Joseph Goes to Egypt
Hammurabi and the Babylonians	59	(4)
The Assyrians	63	(8)
Shamshi-Adad, King of the Whole World
The Story of Gilgamesh
The First Cities of India	71	(6)
The River-Road
The Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro
The Far East--Ancient China	77	(10)
Lei Zu and the Silkworm
The Pictograms of Ancient China
Farming in Ancient China
Ancient Africa	87	(12)
Ancient Peoples of West Africa
Anansi and Turtle
Anansi and the Make-Believe Food
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt	99	(6)
Egypt Invades Nubia
The Hyksos Invade Egypt
The New Kingdom of Egypt	105	(10)
The General and the Woman Pharaoh
Amenhotep and King Tut
The Israelites Leave Egypt	115	(8)
The Baby Moses
The Exodus from Egypt
The Phoenicians	123	(6)
Phoenician Traders
The Founding of Carthage
The Return of Assyria	129	(8)
Ashurbanipal's Attack
The Library of Nineveh
Babylon Takes Over Again!	137	(6)
Nebuchadnezzar's Madness
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Life in Early Crete	143	(10)
Bull-jumpers and Sailors
King Minos and the Minotaur
The Mysterious End of the Minoans
The Early Greeks	153	(4)
The Mycenaeans
The Greek Dark Ages
Greece Gets Civilized Again	157	(14)
Greece Gets an Alphabet
The Stories of Homer
The First Olympic Games
The Medes and the Persians	171	(6)
A New Empire
Cyrus the Great
Sparta and Athens	177	(6)
Life in Sparta
Life in Athens
The Greek Gods	183	(4)
The Wars of the Greeks	187	(6)
Greece's War with Persia
The Greeks Fight Each Other
Alexander the Great	193	(6)
Philip and His Son
Alexander's Invasions
The Death of Alexander
The People of the Americas	199	(10)
The Nazca Drawings
The Heads of the Olmecs
Rabbit Shoots the Sun
The Rise of Rome	209	(6)
Romulus and Remus
The Power of Rome
The Roman Empire	215	(12)
The Roman Gods
The Roman Builders
The Roman Gladiators
The Gladiator School
Rome's War with Carthage	227	(6)
The Aryans of India	233	(8)
Life on the Ganges River
The Castes of Ancient India
Siddhartha
The Mauryan Empire of India	241	(6)
The Empire United
The Jakata Tales
China--Writing and the Qin	247	(14)
Calligraphy in China
Warring States
The First Emperor and the Great Wall
The First Emperor's Grave
Confucius	261	(4)
The Rise of Julius Caesar	265	(10)
Caesar is Kidnapped
The Consuls of Rome
Caesar and the Senate
Caesar the Hero	275	(10)
Caesar Fights the Celts
Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Caesar and Cleopatra
The Death of Caesar
The First Roman Prince	285	(4)
The Beginning of Christianity	289	(6)
The Birth of Jesus
Jesus Crucified and Resurrected
The End of the Ancient Jewish Nation	295	(4)
Rome and the Christians	299	(8)
Nero, the Evil Emperor
Christians in the Catacombs
The Emperor Is a Christian!
Rome Begins to Weaken	307	(6)
The British Rebellion
Rome Divided In Two
The Attacking Barbarians	313	(8)
Attila the Hun
Stilicho, Roman and Barbarian
The Coming of the Visigoths
The End of Rome	321
The Last Roman Emperor
The Gifts of Rome