The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise
of the Renaissance
INSTRUCTOR
Claudia Franklin_____ Recommended/NecessaryText Susan Wise Bauer, The
Story of the World, Vol. 2, From the Fall of Rome
to the Rise of the Renaissance, 2007,
Second Edition. We will read all of it in the course
of the academic year. The above book can also be purchased in
CD format read out loud. There is also an activity
book that was developed by Susan Bauer. It is
interesting and useful depending on your teaching
methods--but not necessary. Schedule We begin right after Labor Day. We take off a week
at Thanksgiving, two weeks over Chanukah, Christmas
and New Year's, and one week right before Easter.
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Week 1
Wandering Through the Roman Empire
The Fall of Rome
The Celts of Britain
Week 2
Barbarians Come to Britain
Beowulf the Hero
Augustine Comes to England
Week 3
Medieval Monasteries
Writing Books by Hand
The Beauty of Constantinople
Week 4
Justinian, the Just Emperor
The Empress Theodora
The Church in the East
Week 5
A King Named Skandagupta
Monks in Caves
Muhammad's Vision
Week 6
Muhammad Flees to Medina
The Koran: Islam's Holy Book
The Fight for Mecca
Week 7
The Spread of Islam
The City of Baghdad
Sinbad in the Valley of the Snakes
Week 8
Yang Chien Unites North and South
The Tang Dynasty
The Yamoto Dynasty of Japan
Week 9
A Tale of Three Countries: Korea, China, and Japan
The First People of Australia
The Long Journey of the Maori
Week 10
Clovis, the Ex-Barbarian
Four Tribes, One Empire
Islam in Spain and Africa
Week 11
Charles the Hammer
The Greatest King: Charlemagne
The Viking Invasions
Week 12
Eric the Red and Eric's Son
The Norse Gods
Thor and the Giant King
Week 13
The Vikings Invade England
Alfred the Great
The Battle of Hastings
Week 14
The English Language
Serfs and Noblemen
Stone Castles
Week 15
The English Code of Chivalry
The Samurai: Japanese Knights
A Command from the Pope
Week 16
Recapturing Jerusalem
Saladin of Jerusalem
El Cid and the Reconquest of Spain
Week 17
Richard the Lionhearted
John Lackland and the Magna Carta
Robin Hood
Week 18
Robin Hood and the Butcher
The Scattering of the Jews
A Tale of the Diaspora
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Week 19
The Clever Rabbi of Cordova
Ghengis Khan, Emperor of All Men
The Mogul Conquest of China
Week 20
Marco Polo Goes to China
The Forbidden City of the Ming
The Rus Come to Constantinople
Week 21
Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible
The Ottoman Turks Attack
The Sheep-Rocks
Week 22
The Capture of Constantinople
Suleiman the Law Giver
The Plague
Week 23
A New Way of Living
Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt
Joan of Arc
Week 24
The Wars of the Roses
The Princes in the Tower
Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain
Week 25
Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal
Gold, Salt, and Ghana
Mansa Musa of Mali
Week 26
The Moghul Dynasty
Akbar of India
The Bad-Luck Servant
Week 27
Christopher Columbus
Vespucci and Magellan
The Mayans of Central America
Week 28
The Marvelous City of Tenochtitlan
The Incas
The Slave Trade
Week 29
Cortes and Montezuma
Martin Luther's List
Henry VIII's Problems
Week 30
A New Way of Thinking
Gutenberg's Great Invention
The Spread of the Reformation
Week 31
The Council of Trent
The Revolution of Copernicus
Galileo's Strange Notions
Week 32
The Queen Who Almost Wasn't
Good Queen Bess
William Shakespeare
Week 33
Macbeth
Macbeth's Decision
Walter Raleigh and the New World
Week 34
The Lost Colony
The New-Found Land
Week 35
Jacques Cartier's Discoveries
Spain and England's War
Week 36
The World at the End of the Sixteenth Century
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