The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance

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Peace Hill Press, May 31, 2004 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 200 pages
This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide contains all you need to make history come alive for your child! Don't just read about historyexperience it! Colro a picture of a Viking warrior, make an edible oasis, create a Moorish ruler's turban and Aztec jewelry and more. Designed to turn the accompanying book The Story of the World: Volume 2: The Middle Ages into a complete history program, this Activity Book provides you with comprehension questions and answers, sample narrations, maps and geography activities, coloring pages, lists of additional readings in history and literature, and plenty of simple, hands-on activities all designed for grades 1-4.

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The Glory That Was Rome
The Early Days of Britain
Christianity Comes to Britain
The Byzantine Empire
The Age of Crusades
A New Kind of King
The Diaspora
Chapters 1720
Exploring the Mysterious East
The Ottoman Empire
Chapters 2124
France and England at

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The Rise of Islam
Islam Becomes an Empire
The Great Dynasties of China
East of China
The Islamic Invasion
The Great Kings of France
The Arrival of the Norsemen
The First Kings of England
England After the Conquest
Chapters 1316
War for the English Throne
The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal
Chapters 2528
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Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.