The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times
by Susan Wise Bauer Author
(From Amazon): This third book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls�over 150,000 copies of the series in print! Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives�and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their history. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivating guide to the history of other lands. Written in an engaging, straightforward manner, The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child; Volume 3: Early Modern Times weaves world history into a story book format. Who was the Sun King? Why did the Luddites go around England smashing machines? And how did samurai become sumo wrestlers? 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 happened all around the world in long-ago times. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children to share together, The Story of the World includes each continent and major people group. Volume 3: Early Modern Times is the third of a four volume series and covers the major historical events in the years 1600 to 1850, as well as including maps, illustrations, and tales from each culture. Each Story of the World volume provides a full year of history study when combined with the Activity Book, Audiobook, and Tests�each available separately to accompany each volume of The Story of the World Text Book. Volume 3 Grade Recommendation: Grades 3-8. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings and maps
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780971412996
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 81
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Peace Hill Press
- Copyright
- 2004
Chapters
- Intro-1a Holy Roman Empire
- 1b Riches of Spain
- 2a The Dutch Revolt
- 2b Queen Without a Country
- 3a King of Two Countries,
- 3 James and His Enemies
- 3 King James's Town
- 4 French in the New World
- 4 Henry Hudson's Quest
- 5 Hideyoshi, Japan's Great Leader
- 5 The First Tokugawka Ruler
- 6 Strangers and Saints in Plymouth
- 6 Dutch in the New World
- 7 Tobacco-and Unwilling Colonists
- 7 Queen Nzinga of Angola
- 8 The Persian Puzzle
- 8 The Ottoman Turks
- 9 The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
- 10 Japan's Isolation: Closed Doors in the East
- 10 The "Foreign Conquest" of China
- 11 World Seizer, King of the World
- 11 Aurangzeb's Three Decisions
- 12 Charles Loses His Head (1649),
- 12 Cromwell's Protectorate
- 13 Plague and Fire
- 14 The Sun King of France
- 14 Frederick, the First Prussian King
- 15 War Against the Colonies: King Philip's War
- 15 War Against the Colonies:Louis XIV Saves France
- 15 William Penn's Holy Experiment
- 16 The Universal Laws of Newton and Locke
- 17 Scientific Farming
- 17 Peter the Great
- 18 Peter's Port to the West
- 18 The Ottoman's Look West-Twice
- 19 The Indian Empire Falls Apart
- 19 The ShopKeepers' Invasion
- 20 Emperor Chi'en-lung's Library
- 20 The Land of the Dragon
- 21 Three Pointless Wars
- 21 The Seven Years' War
- 22 Discontent in the British Colonies
- 22 The American Revolution
- 23 The American Constitution
- 23 The First American President (1789-1797)
- 24 Captain Cook Reaches Botany Bay
- 24 The Convict Settlement
- 25 The Storming of the Bastille
- 25 The Reign of Terror
- 26 Princess Catherine Comes to Russia
- 26 Catherine the Great
- 27 Steam and Coal in Britain
- 27 Cotton and Guns in America
- 28 The Kingdom at the Center of the World
- 28 The Rise of the Opium Trade
- 29 Napoleon Comes to Power
- 29 The Emperor Napoleon
- 30 Freedom in the Caribbean
- 30 The Haitian Revolt
- 31 The World of the Factories
- 31 The Luddites
- 32 Lewis and Clark Map the West
- 32 Tecumseh's Resistance
- 33 Napoleon's Wars (and 1812, Too),
- 33 Waterloo!
- 34 Simon Bolivar: The Liberator
- 34 Freedom, but Not Unity
- 35 The Cry of Delores
- 35 The Republic of Mexico
- 36 The Work of the Abolitionists
- 37 The Zulu Kingdom
- 37 The Boers and the British
- 38 The Trail of Tears
- 38 Nat Turner's Revolt
- 39 The First Opium War
- 40 Remember the Alamo
- 40 The Mexican-American War
- 41 The Treaty of Waitangi,
- 41 The New Zealand Wars
- 42a The Gold Rush
- 42b A World of Unrest
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