Story of the World, Vol. 2 History for the Classical Child: The Middle Ages

by Bauer, Susan Wise; Martirosian, Patty; Wise, Jay

• ISBN13: 9780971412934
• ISBN10: 0971412936
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-17
• Publisher: The Well-Trained Mind Press

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 Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance.

Table of Contents

Foreword	13	(12)
The Glory That Was Rome	25	(10)
Wandering Through the Roman Empire
The Fall of Rome
The Early Days of Britain	35	(10)
The Celts of Britain
Barbarians Come to Britain
Beowulf the Hero
Christianity Comes to Britain	45	(14)
Augustine Comes to England
Medieval Monasteries
Writing Books by Hand
The Byzantine Empire	59	(8)
The Beauty of Constantinople
Justinian, The Just Emperor
The Empress Theodora
The Church in the East
The Medieval Indian Empire	67	(10)
A King Named Skandagupta
Monks in Caves
The Rise of Islam	77	(14)
Muhammad's Vision
Muhammad Flees to Medina
The Koran: Islam's Holy Book
Islam Becomes an Empire	91	(1)
The Fight for Mecca
The Spread of Islam
The City of Baghdad
Sinbad and the Valley of the Snakes
The Great Dynasties of China	91	(8)
Yang Chien Unites North and South
The Tang Dynasty
East of China	99	(8)
The Yamato Dynasty of Japan
A Tale of Three Countries: Korea, China, and Japan
The Bottom of the World	107	(8)
The First People of Australia
The Long Journey of the Maori
The Kingdom of the Franks	115	(8)
Clovis, The Ex-Barbarian
Four Tribes, One Empire
The Islamic Invasion	123	(4)
The Great Kings of France	127	(6)
Charles the Hammer
The Greatest King: Charlemagne
The Arrival of the Norsemen	133	(14)
The Viking Invasion
Eric the Red and ``Eric's Son''
The Norse Gods
The First Kings of England	147	(10)
The Vikings Invade England
Alfred the Great
The Battle of Hastings
England After the Conquest	157	(12)
The English Language
Serfs and Noblemen
Stone Castles
Knights and Samurai	169	(8)
The English Code of Chivalry
The Samurai: Japanese Knights
The Age of Crusades	177	(14)
A Command from the Pope
Recapturing Jerusalem
Saladin of Jerusalem
El Cid and the ``Reconquest of Spain''
A New Kind of King	191	(12)
Richard the Lionhearted
Jack Lackland and the Magna Carta
Robin Hood
The Diaspora	203	(8)
The Scattering of the Jews
A Tale of the Diaspora
The Mongols Devastate the East	211	(8)
Genghis Khan, Emperor of All Men
The Mongol Conquest of China
Exploring the Mysterious East	219	(8)
Marco Polo Goes to China
The Forbidden City of the Ming
The First Russians	227	(8)
The Rus Come to Constantinople
Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible
The Ottoman Empire	235	(12)
The Ottoman Turks Attack
The Capture of Constantinople
Suleiman the Lawgiver
The End of the World	247	(8)
The Plague
A New Way of Living
France and England at War	255	(8)
Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt
Joan of Arc
War for the English Throne	263	(10)
The War of the Roses
The Princes in the Tower
The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal	273	(8)
Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain
Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal
African Kingdoms	281	(12)
Gold, Salt, and Ghana
Mansa Musa of Mali
The Songhay Empire
India Under the Moghuls	293	(8)
The Moghul Dynasty
Akbar of India
Exploring New Worlds	301	(10)
Christopher Columbus
Vespucci and Magellan
The American Kingdoms	311	(12)
The Mayans of Central America
The Marvelous City of Tenochtitlan
The Incas
Spain, Portugal, and the New World	323	(8)
The Slave Trade
Cortes and Montezuma
Martin Luther's New Ideas	331	(8)
Martin Luther's List
Henry VIII's Problem
The Renaissance	339	(10)
A New Way of Thinking
Gutenberg's Great Invention
Reformation and Counter Reformation	349	(6)
The Spread of the Reformation
The Council of Trent
The New Universe	355	(8)
The Revolution of Copernicus
Galileo's Strange Notions
England's Greatest Queen	363	(8)
The Queen Who Almost Wasn't
Good Queen Bess
England's Greatest Playwright	371	(10)
William Shakespeare
Macbeth's Decision
New Ventures to the Americas	381	(10)
Walter Raleigh and the New World
The Lost Colony
Explorations in the North	391	(10)
The New-Found Land
Jacques Cartier's Discovery
Empires Collide	401	(10)
Spain and England's War
The World at the End of the Sixteenth Century
Timeline	411	(6)
Index	417