TSOTW has 42 chapters, so doing one chapter per week would put you well into summer break. What I did here is put the chapters that have only one section with a chapter following it or preceding it for the corresponding week.
We'll see if this works. If it doesn't work well, I'll have to adjust the schedule as I go. I'd like to come back to this post and mention any thing we had to adjust. Sometimes a certain topic might be really worth diving into more and spending more time on.
Volume 1 Ancients
Week
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Chapters to cover
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1
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Introduction:
How Do We Know What Happened? - 1.
What is History? 2. What is Archeology?
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2
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Chapter
1: The Earliest People – 1. The
First Nomads 2. The First Nomads Become Farmers
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3
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Chapter
2: Egyptians Lived on the Nile River
– 1. Two Kingdoms Become One 2. God’s of Ancient Egypt.
Chapter 3: The First Writing 1. Hieroglyphs and Cuneiform |
4
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Chapter
4: The Old Kingdom of Egypt 1.
Making Mummies 2. Egyptian Pyramids
Chapter
5: The First Sumerian Dictator 1.
Sargon and the Akkadians
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5
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Chapter
6: The Jewish People 1. God Speaks
to Abraham 2. Joseph Goes to Egypt
Chapter
7: Hammurabi and the Babylonians 1.
Hammurabi’s Code
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6
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Chapter
8: The Assyrians 1. Shamshi-Adad,
King of the Whole World 2. The Story of Gilgamesh
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7
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Chapter
9: The First Cities of India 1. The
River-Road 2. The Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro
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8
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Chapter
10: The Far East: Ancient China 1.
Lei Zu and the Silkworm 2. The Pictograms of Ancient China 3. Farming in
Ancient China
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9
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Chapter
11: Ancient Africa 1. Ancient
Peoples of West Africa 2. Anansi and Turtle 3. Anansi and the Make-Believe
Food
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10
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Chapter
12: The Middle Kingdom of Egypt 1.
Egypt Invades Nubia 2. The Hyskos Invade Egypt
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11
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Chapter
13: The New Kingdom of Egypt 1. The
General and the Woman Pharaoh 2. Amenhotep and King Tut
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12
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Chapter
14: The Israelites Leave Egypt 1.
The Baby Moses 2. The Exodus From Egypt
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13
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Chapter
15: The Phoenicians 1. Phoenician
Traders 2. The Founding of Carthage
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14
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Chapter
16: The Return of Assyria 1.
Ashurbanipal’s Attack 2. The Library of Ninevah
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15
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Chapter
17: Babylon Takes Over Again! 1.
Nebuchadnezzar’s Madness 2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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16
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Chapter
18: Life in Early Crete 1.
Bull-Jumpers and Sailors 2. King Minos and the Minotaur 3. The Mysterious End
of the Minoans
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17
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Chapter
19: The Early Greeks 1. The
Mycenaeans 2. The Greek Dark Ages
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18
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Chapter
20: Greece Gets Civilized Again 1.
Greece Gets and Alphabet 2. The Stories of Homer 3. The First Olympic Games
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19
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Chapter
21: The Medes and the Persians 1. A
New Empire 2. Cyrus the Great
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20
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Chapter
22: Sparta and Athens 1. Life in
Sparta 2. Life Athens
Chapter
23: The Greek Gods 1. The Golden Apple
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21
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Chapter
24: The Wars of the Greeks 1.
Greece’s War with Persia 2. The Greeks Fight Each Other
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22
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Chapter
25: Alexander the Great 1. Philip
and His Son 2. Alexander’s Invasions 3. The Death of Alexander
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23
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Chapter
26: The People of the Americas 1.
The Nazca Drawings 2. The Heads of the Olmecs 3. Rabbit Shoots the Sun
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24
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Chapter
27: The Rise of Rome 1. Romulus and
Remus 2. The Power of Rome
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25
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Chapter
28: The Roman Empire 1. The Roman
Gods 2. The Roman Builders 3. The Roman Gladiators 4. The Gladiator School
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26
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Chapter
29: Rome’s War With Carthage 1. The
Punic Wars
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27
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Chapter
30: The Aryans of India 1. Life on
the Ganges River 2. The Castes of Ancient India 3. Siddhartha
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28
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Chapter
31: The Mauryan Empire of India 1.
The Empire United 2. The Jakata Tales
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29
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Chapter
32: China: Writing and the Qin 1.
Calligraphy in China 2. Warring States 3. The First Emperor and the Great
Wall 4. The First Emperors Grave
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30
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Chapter
33: Confucius 1. China’s Wise
Teacher
Chapter
34: The Rise of Julius Caesar 1.
Caesar Is Kidnapped 2. The Consuls of Rome 3. Caesar and the Senate
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31
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Chapter
35: Caesar the Hero 1. Caesar
Fights the Celts 2. Caesar Crosses the Rubicon 3. Caesar and Cleopatra 4. The
Death of Caesar
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32
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Chapter
36: The First Roman Prince 1.
Augustus Caesar
Chapter
37: The Beginning of Christianity
1. The Birth of Jesus 2. Jesus Crucified and Resurrected
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33
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Chapter
38: The End of the Ancient Jewish Nation 1. The Destruction of the Temple
Chapter 39: Rome and the Christians 1. Nero, the Evil Emperor 2. Christians in the Catacombs 3. The Emperor Is a Christian |
34
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Chapter
40: Rome Begins to Weaken 1. The
British Rebellion 2. Rome Divided in Two
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35
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Chapter
41: The Attacking Barbarians 1.
Attila the Hun 2. Stilicho, Roman and Barbarian 3. The Coming of the
Visigoths
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36
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Chapter
42: The End of Rome 1. The Last
Roman Emperor
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Volume 2: Middle Ages
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Week
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Chapters to cover
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1
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Chapter
1: The Glory That was Rome 1.
Wandering Through the Roman Empire 2. The Fall of Rome
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2
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Chapter
2: The Early Days of Britain 1. The
Celts of Britain 2. Barbarians Come to Britain 3 Beowulf the Hero
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3
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Chapter
3: Christianity Comes to Britain 1.
Augustine Comes to England 2. Medieval Monasteries 3. Writing Books by Hand
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4
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Chapter
4: The Byzantine Empire 1. The
Beauty of Constantinople 2. Justinian, the Just Emperor 3. The Empress
Theodora 4. The Church in the East
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5
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Chapter
5: The Medieval Indian Empire 1. A
King Named Skandagupta 2. Monks in Caves
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6
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Chapter
6: The Rise of Islam 1. Muhammad’s
Vision 2. Muhammad Flees to Medina 3. The Koran: Islam’s Holy Book
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7
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Chapter
7: Islam Becomes an Empire 1. The
Fight for Mecca 2. The Spread of Islam 3. The City of Baghdad 4. Sinbad in
the Valley of Snakes
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8
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Chapter
8: The Great Dynasties of China 1.
Yang Chien Unites North and South 2. The Tang Dynasty
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9
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Chapter
9: East of China 1. The Yamato
Dynasty of Japan 2. A Tale of Three Countries: Korea, China, and Japan
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10
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Chapter
10: The Bottom of the World 1. The
First People of Australia 2. The Long Journey of the Maori
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11
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Chapter
11: The Kingdom of the Franks 1.
Clovis, The Ex-Barbarian 2. Four Tribes, One Empire
Chapter 12: The Islamic Invasion 1. Islam in Spain and Africa |
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12
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Chapter
13: The Great Kings of France 1.
Charles the Hammer 2. The Greatest King: Charlemagne
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13
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Chapter
14: The Arrival of the Norsemen 1.
The Viking Invasion 2. Eric the Red and “Eric’s Son” 3. The Norse Gods 4.
Thor and the Giant King
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14
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Chapter
15: The Firs Kings of England 1.
The Vikings Invade England 2. Alfred the Great 3. The Battle of Hastings
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15
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Chapter
16: England After the Conquest 1
The English Language 2. Serfs and Noblemen 4. Stone Castles
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16
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Chapter
17: Knights and Samurai 1. The
English Code of Chivalry 2. The Samurai: Japanese Knights
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17
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Chapter
18: The Age of the Crusades 1. A
Command from the Pope 2. Recapturing Jerusalem 3. Saladin of Jerusalem 4. El
Cid and the “Reconquest of Spain”
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18
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Chapter
19: A New Kind of King 1. Richard
the Lionhearted 2. John Lackland and the Magna Carta 3. Robin Hood. 4. Robin
Hood and Butcher
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19
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Chapter
20: The Diaspora 1. The Scattering
of the Jews 2. A Tale of the Diaspora 3. The Clever Rabbi of Cordova
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20
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Chapter
21: The Mongols Devastate the East
1. Genghis Khan, Emperor of All Men 2. The Mongol Conquest of China
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21
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Chapter
22: Exploring the Mysterious East 1.
Marco Polo Goes to China 2. The Forbidden City of the Ming
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22
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Chapter
23: The First Russians 1 The Rus
Come to Constantinople 2. Ivan the Great and Ivan the Terrible
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23
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Chapter
24: The Ottoman Empire 1. The
Ottoman Turks Attack 2. The Sheep-Rocks 3. The Capture of Constantinople 4.
Suleiman the Lawgiver
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24
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Chapter
25: The End of the World 1. The
Plague 2. A New Way of Living
Chapter 26: France and England at War 1. Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt 2 Joan of Arc |
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25
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Chapter
27: War for the English Throne 1. A
War of Roses 2. The Princes in the Tower
Chapter 28: The Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal 1. Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain 2. Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal |
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26
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Chapter
29: African Kingdoms 1. Gold, Salt,
and Ghana 2. Mansa Musa of Mali 3. The Songhay Empire
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27
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Chapter
30: India Under the Moghuls 1. The
Mogul Dynasty 2. Akbar of India 3. The Bad-Luck Servant
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28
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Chapter
31: Exploring New Worlds 1.
Christopher Columbus 2. Vespucci and Magellan
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29
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Chapter
32: The American Kingdoms 1. The Mayans
of Central America 2. The Marvelous City of Tenochtitlan 3. The Incas
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30
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Chapter
33: Spain, Portugal, and the New World
1. The Slave Trade 2. Cortes and Montezuma
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31
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Chapter
34: Martin Luther’s New Ideas 1.
Martin Luther’s List 2. Henry VIII’s Problem
Chapter 35: The Renaissance 1. A New Way of Thinking 2. Gutenberg’s Great Invention |
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32
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Chapter
36: Reformation and Counter Reformation 1. The Spread of the Reformation 2. The Council of Trent
Chapter 37: The New Universe 1. The Revolution of Copernicus 2. Galileo’s Strange Notions |
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33
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Chapter
38: England’s Greatest Queen 1. The
Queen Who Almost Wasn’t 2. Good Queen Bess
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34
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Chapter
39: England’s Greatest Playwright
1. William Shakespeare 2. Macbeth 3. Macbeth’s Decision
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35
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Chapter
40: New Ventures to the Americas 1.
Walter Raleigh and the New World 2. The Lost Colony
Chapter 41: Exploration in the North 1. The New-Found Land 2. Jacques Cartier’s Discoveries |
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36
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Chapter
42: Empires Collide 1. Spain and
England’s War 2. The World at the End of the Sixteenth Century
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What is really great about repeating curriculum from one child to the next is that things get a little easier.
ReplyDeleteThe planning is horrendous. Wow. I am impressed.