Step 4 - History 5 - The Medieval Age
Step 4 - History 5 - The Medieval Age
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Develops literacy, vocabulary, geography, politics!
Introduces & explores key ideas in history!
Explores the development of nations in early Europe!
Explores the growth of Catholicism!
Explores Islam's birth and practices!
The crusades! Castles! Knights & Kings!
Explores the period's art!
Covers major people & events in the order they happened!
Hands-on activities make history relevant to the student!
Develops critical thinking skills!
Develops study in a self-determined manner!
Lesson plans are complete and ready to use! Start now!
We're currently working our way through this program and loving it. The children (aged 12 and 16) work independently on most of their subjects, but we chose to do this together to tie in with this year's Great Books studies. As we started with The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mesopotamian start to this unit worked perfectly.
This program has been designed for independent study, but we've found it to be ideal for collaborative learning, encouraging interesting discussions. All the hard work has been done, but there is plenty of scope for shaping it to your family's needs. If necessary the children can work on their own too, so I love the freedom this gives us. Highly recommended. E. R., Professional Educator
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An intensive study of 1,000 years of human history. After the fall of Rome, we see a Europe lost in plagues and awash in religion. At the same time, in the Middle East, Islam is born in the writings of its prophet, Mohammad. This is a period of history that must be understood, to understand the modern world.
The fifth Step 4 (ages 11-adult) History course covers over 1,000 years of world history. From the expansion of the Catholic Church, to the explosion into history of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, from the mysteries of ancient Byzantium to the ancient civilizations of Africa and Asia, from the growth of new nations and powerful rulers in Europe and their battle with religious leaders for ultimate power, the student observes our modern world start to take shape.
Modern forms of government and law start to develop. Universities come into being for the first time in history. Plagues, feudalism, castles and crusades…the entire panoply of medieval life is explored by the student.
The course includes the use of many films and multi-media materials which further enhance the students study of this long and vital period, one of the most brutal and yet beautiful in the history of human civilization. (Some of these may be available on the Internet for free. You are required to locate them, they are not included.)
Your student will understand clearly upon completing this course many of the movements and pressures that made (and make) our "modern" world.
62 lesson plans, 6 tests and answer guides, 110-140 hours of study.
Subjects covered in this course include:
Byzantium
The Eastern Orthodox Church
Byzantium becomes Constantinople
Rome is split into two with two Emperors
The decline of the eastern Roman Empire
The Theme System
The spread of Christianity
The Crusades
Russia and eastern Europe develop
Mongol Hoards sweep through Russia
The birth of Islam in Arabia, Muhammad
About Islam, its beliefs and practices
The Koran
Islam rapidly expands through the Middle East and ingto Europe and Asia
Pope Gregory
Monasteries
St. Patrick and Ireland
The Venerable Bede, the Father of English History
St. Benedict and the Benedictines
St. Francis and the Franciscans
The Franks establish the first European nation
Charlemagne
The Norsemen or "Vikings"
Feudalism
Catholicism in the Medieval Period
Life for nobles, kings and commoners in the Medieval Period
The Capetian Kings of France
Henry II of England
Thomas a Becket
The Magna Carta
Robin Hood
William Wallace and Scotland
Pope Innocent III
St. Dominic and the Dominicans
Saladin
Guilds in Europe grow
The Black Plague
The Hundred Year's War
Jews in Europe
Joan D' Arc
Henry Tudor becomes King of England
John Wycliffe, the hint of Protestantism
Jan Hus (John Huss)
Education in the late Middle Ages
Dante
The Art of the Medieval Period
Africa during the period
India during the period
China during the period
Korea during the period
Japan during the period
The Mongols and their great Empire
Genghis Khan
Civilization in the Americas prior to discovery by Europe
The Mayas
The Toltecs
The Aztecs
North American Native American Tribes