Elementary Program: Volume One

The Ancient World: Pre-History through 33AD

Introduction (for parents)

Introduction (for kids): What is History

The Neolithic and the Development of Agriculture
The First Cities
The Development of Writing
The Bronze Age
Otzi the Iceman
The Megalith Builders & Stone Henge

The Rise of Egypt (draft)
Story of Isis and Osiris
Pyramids: Palaces for the Dead (draft)
mummies (include afterlife, Book of the Dead, Ma’at)

Sumer/Babylon/Ur
[mesopotamian mythology?]
Gilgamesh
Hamurabi and the creation laws
Abraham & Isaac
Sumerian/Babylonian version of Flood Story
Noah (as contrast with pagan version)

Exodus
Akhenaten
the story of King Tut
Ancient Crete & Mycene &

The Israelites Become a Nation
Saul/David/Solomon
The Temple: Differences between Israelite Monotheism & Pagan Worship

Assyria
Judith
Nebuchadnezzar & the Neo-Babylonian Empire

The Rise of the Greeks
Greek Mythology:

• Cronos/The Titans/Zeus -- the pantheon
• Prometheus
• Pandora
• Apollo & Daphne
• Persephone
• The Minotaur
• Icarus
• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Cupid & Psyche
• Oedipus

The Trojan War: A Blind Poet Named Homer

• The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships
• The Wrath of Achilles
• The Trojan Horse (draft)

The Wanderings of Odysseus:

• The Lost Hero
• Odysseus Tells His Story
• The Hero Returns (draft)

Athens and Sparta
Empedocles & Other Pre-Socratics
Greek Hoplites
Everday Life in Classical Greece

Persia
Cyrus
Esther
Israel and its Conquerers

Battle of Marathon
Battle of Thermopylae
a little about Plato and Aristotle
a little about Greek drama

Rome: A City on Seven Hills (draft)

• Aeneas (draft)
• Romulus and Remus (draft)
• Brutus & the Expulsion of King Tarquin
• Mucius trying to assassinate Lars Porsenna (& then burning his hand off)
• Horatius at the Bridge
• Cincinnatus

The Peloponessian War
Xenophon and the Persian Expedition
Philip of Macedon (draft)
Alexander the Great (draft)
The Hellenistic World
Archimedes

The Roman Republic
Roman Legions
Rome & Carthage / Hannibal
Rome Expands
the Brothers Gracchus

The spread of Judaism in the Hellenic world & Mystery Cults
Maccabees
Rome and Greece

Roman Civil Wars
Julius Caesar (must include pirate story—kidnapped by pirates is good)
The conquests of Spain and Gaul
Boadicea & Roman Britain
Cleopatra
More Wars -- The End of the Republic
Cicero
Augustus
the spread of Roman Empire
the lost eagles of Teutoburg forest
Life in Ancient Rome
Tiberius / Caligula / Claudius
Nero