Story Of Wld V2 Mid Ages Rev Cl

by Bauer,Susan Wise

• ISBN13: 9781933339108
• ISBN10: 1933339101
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-17
• Publisher: The Well-Trained Mind Press

Summary

Told in the straightforward, engaging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer's trademark, The Story of the World covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa, China, Europe, the Americas-find out what has happened all around the world in the centuries before ours and in our own time. This read-aloud series is designed for parents to share with elementary-school children, or for older readers to enjoy alone. Introduce your child to the marvelous story of the world's civilizations! Book jacket.

Author Biography

Susan Wise Bauer teaches literature and writing at The College of William and Mary in Virginia

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
The Glory That Was Rome
Wandering Through the Roman Empire	p. 1
The Fall of Rome	p. 5
The Early Days of Britain
The Celts of Britain	p. 9
Barbarians Come to Britain	p. 13
Beowulf the Hero	p. 15
Christianity Comes to Britain
Augustine Comes to England	p. 20
Medieval Monasteries	p. 24
Writing Books by Hand	p. 26
The Byzantine Empire
The Beauty of Constantinople	p. 30
Justinian, the Just Emperor	p. 33
The Empress Theodora	p. 35
The Church in the East	p. 38
The Medieval Indian Empire
A King Named Skandagupta	p. 43
Monks in Caves	p. 47
The Rise of Islam
Muhammad's Vision	p. 50
Muhammad Flees to Medina	p. 53
The Koran: Islam's Holy Book	p. 56
Islam Becomes an Empire
The Fight for Mecca	p. 59
The Spread of Islam	p. 62
The City of Baghdad	p. 64
Sinbad in the Valley of Snakes	p. 69
The Great Dynasties of China
Yang Chien Unites North and South	p. 73
The Tang Dynasty	p. 76
East of China
The Yamato Dynasty of Japan	p. 80
A Tale of Three Countries; Korea, China, and Japan	p. 85
The Bottom of the World
The First People of Australia	p. 89
The Long Journey of the Maori	p. 92
The Kingdom of the Franks
Clovis, The Ex-Barbarian	p. 97
Four Tribes, One Empire	p. 101
The Islamic Invasion
Islam in Spain and Africa	p. 104
The Great Kings of France
Charles the Hammer	p. 108
The Greatest King: Charlemagne	p. 110
The Arrival of the Norsemen
The Viking Invasion	p. 115
Eric the Red and "Eric's Son"	p. 118
The Norse Gods	p. 122
Thor and the Giant King	p. 123
The First Kings of England
The Vikings Invade England	p. 129
Alfred the Great	p. 132
The Battle of Hastings	p. 136
England After the Conquest
The English Language	p. 140
Serfs and Noblemen	p. 144
Stone Castles	p. 147
Knights and Samurai
The English Code of Chivalry	p. 152
The Samurai: Japanese Knights	p. 155
The Age of Crusades
A Command from the Pope	p. 160
Recapturing Jerusalem	p. 164
Saladin of Jerusalem	p. 167
El Cid and the "Reconquest of Spain"	p. 170
A New Kind of King
Richard the Lionhearted	p. 174
John Lackland and the Magna Carta	p. 177
Robin Hood	p. 180
Robin Hood and the Butcher	p. 181
The Diaspora
The Scattering of the Jews	p. 186
A Tale of the Diaspora	p. 189
The Clever Rabbi of Cordova	p. 189
The Mongols Devastate the East
Genghis Khan, Emperor of All Men	p. 193
The Mongol Conquest of China	p. 196
Exploring the Mysterious East
Marco Polo Goes to China	p. 200
The Forbidden City of the Ming	p. 204
The First Russians
The Rus Come to Constantinople	p. 208
Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible	p. 211
The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Turks Attack	p. 215
The Sheep-Rocks	p. 216
The Capture of Constantinople	p. 218
Suleiman the Lawgiver	p. 223
The End of the World
The Plague	p. 227
A New Way of Living	p. 231
France and England at War
Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt	p. 235
Joan of Arc	p. 240
War for the English Throne
The Wars of the Roses	p. 244
The Princes in the Tower	p. 248
The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal
Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain	p. 253
Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal	p. 257
African Kingdoms
Gold, Salt, and Ghana	p. 261
Mansa Musa of Mali	p. 265
The Songhay Empire	p. 268
India Under the Moghuls
The Moghul Dynasty	p. 272
Akbar of India	p. 276
The Bad-Luck Servant	p. 278
Exploring New Worlds
Christopher Columbus	p. 281
Vespucci and Magellan	p. 286
The American Kingdoms
The Mayans of Central America	p. 290
The Marvelous City of Tenochtitlan	p. 294
The Incas	p. 297
Spain, Portugal, and the New World
The Slave Trade	p. 301
Cortes and Montezuma	p. 305
Martin Luther's New Ideas
Martin Luther's List	p. 309
Henry VIII's Problem	p. 313
The Renaissance
A New Way of Thinking	p. 318
Gutenberg's Great Invention	p. 322
Reformation and Counter Reformation
The Spread of the Reformation	p. 327
The Council of Trent	p. 330
The New Universe
The Revolution of Copernicus	p. 334
Galileo's Strange Notions	p. 338
England's Greatest Queen
The Queen Who Almost Wasn't	p. 342
Good Queen Bess	p. 346
England's Greatest Playwright
William Shakespeare	p. 351
Macbech	p. 353
Macbeth's Decision	p. 356
New Ventures to the Americas
Walter Raleigh and the New World	p. 361
The Lost Colony	p. 365
Explorations in the North
The New-Found Land	p. 370
Jacques Cartier's Discoveries	p. 374
Empires Collide
Spain and England's War	p. 379
The World at the End of the Sixteenth Century	p. 384
Chronology of The Middle Ages
Dates in Volume 2	p. 389
A Geography of The Middle Ages
A List of Maps in Volume 2	p. 395
Pronouncing the Names of The Middle Ages
A Pronunciation Guide for Reading Aloud	p. 397
Index	p. 403
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