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  • I am new to CM and am planning for a 4 and 2nd grader with a 31/2 year old running around. (may also have my 6th grader home)I was going to start with year 1 because it has been a while since we did the ancients. My question is “Is there a good replacement for  Ancient Civilizations book by Oxford?”  Or is there a discription of what is read each week instead of chp 1,2, 3 ….are topics listed so that I could find other sources with same information?  I ordered the guide so if the answer is there, I will see soon. Just was hoping someone has experience with this. Or do you suggest I just spend the $60 and use it for the year and following years.

    melissa m

    houseofchaos
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    Hi Melissa,

    The chapter names are here:

    http://apps.simplycharlottemason.com/resources/detail/231

    but there are further divisions within the chapters.  I think missingtheshire had it all typed up in a post somewhere….. Linda, do you still have that handy?

    sheraz
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    Melissa, I have maintained that the book was not so much money if you are going to use it over and over – (I am).  That said, so far in Mod. 1 we aren’t using a lot of it – a section (2 pages) out of each chapter.  I was a little suprised by that. =)  We are not very far into Mod 1 yet, though, so that may change as we are easing our way through the creation vs big bang theories…I would get it just because that is who I am.  =)  As an additional note, there are lots of Usborne books that have brief notations and lots of narrated books that illustrate the things that the Oxford book talks about.  I am using them together.

    Some people have mentioned that the Oxford Children’s Ancient History worked as well.  Haven’t actually seen it in my hands so I can’t verify that, but it makes sense.   Also, probably any well written book about Ancient _____ would cover the same topics listed in the modules.

    If you do not want to buy the book, the best thing you could do is look through the Module you’ve chosen and write down the topics for each history lesson (and maybe what the point of the lesson is) along with what lesson number it was.  Then you could look for specific things that are on that subject.  I have done that a bit anyway to give my older children some additional reading time in history after the family time is over.  =)  HTH

    Or, pray that Linda finds that post… =)  Other post hit while I was typing this one =)

    Here is what I posted about the book, it is all the headings and subheadings.  Hope it helps.  Linda

    Ok this is long, bt I have typed out all the parts, chapter and subheadings of the chapter of the book which I hope will bless some of you asking for this. Each chapter has subparts which are mostly 2 page spreads on each topic. The book has wonderful pictures and illustrations. Anyway, here is the book contents:

    PART 1: On the threshold of history

    Introduction – The Stone Age

    Chapter 1 – First Civilizations

    The climate changes

    From food gathering to farming

    From hunting to stock farming

    Attraction of river valleys

    Irrigation and flood

    The rise of the leaders

    Chapter 2: Sumer

    The first settlers

    The useful date palm

    Nam-sha learns to read and write

    Clay Bricks and Buildings

    Gods and Heroes

    Houses and everyday life

    Conquerors and kings

    Law Givers

    The royal tombs at Ur

    Babylon

    Science in Babylon

    Reading the wedge-shaped writing

    Chapter 3: Egypt

    Before the pyramids

    The Discovery of metal

    Building temples and pyramids

    The oldest ship in the world

    Cleopatra’s needle

    Mummies and tombs

    Akhenaten and religion

    Tutankhamen’s tomb

    The lost toy cupboard

    Everyday life

    The disappearing queen

    Paper, ink, hieroglyphics

    Chapter 4: Other early civilizations

    The Indus valley

    China

    The Hittites

    The Hebrews

    The Assyrians

    The Persians

    The Phoenicians

    Chapter 5: Pre iron age Britain

    The first farmers

    Skara Brae

    Silbury, Avebury and Stonehenge

    Bronze age barrows

    The coming of the iron age

    PART 2: The Greeks

    Chapter 6: The Minoans

    The legend of the Minotaur

    Sir Arthur Evans

    The palace at Knossos

    Daily Life

    Religion

    Bull Leaping

    Michael Ventris and Linear ‘B’

    Atlantis

    Chapter 7: The Mycenaeans

    Homer

    The Trojan War

    Heinrich Schliemann

    Schliemann at Mycenae

    Chapter 8: Early Greeks

    Achaeans and Dorians

    The emergence of cities

    The early days of Athens

    Chapter 9: Greek civilization

    How the cities were ruled

    Solon, Cleisthenes and Pericles

    Everyday Life

    Other members of the family

    Art and Pottery

    Ships and trade

    The Gods

    Chapter 10: The Persian Wars

    The Persian Empire

    Persian rulers

    The Battle of Marathon

    Thermophylae

    Salamis

    Chapter 11: Pericles and the Golden Age

    The wise men of Greece

    Slavery

    Clothes

    The Acropolis and its buildings

    Greek legends

    Music

    A day at the theatre

    The Oracles

    Chapter 12: Athletics and games

    Legend of Pelops

    Olympia

    The Olympic Games

    Other games and pastimes

    Chapter 13: The Peloponnesian wars

    Sparta

    Why the war started

    Soldiers and battles

    Athens is conquered

    Chapter 14: Alexander the Great

    Early days

    The army

    Battles and sieges

    Persepolis

    Alexander’s last battle

    Death of a conqueror

    The empire is divided up

    Chapter 15: Greece conquered

    The Romans come to Greece

    Greece becomes a Roman province

    The Greek legacy

    PART 3: The Romans

    Chapter 16: Origins

    The legend of Aeneas

    The legend of Romulus and Remus

    The truth behind the legends

    The early kings

    Sabines and Romans

    The Etruscans

    Horatius and the bridge

    The Celts

    Chapter 17: Rome and her neighbours

    The Greeks

    Carthage

    A sea fight

    Hannibal and the Punic Wars

    Chapter 18: The City of Rome

    What Rome may have looked like

    Aqueducts

    The baths

    Temples

    Private houses and flats

    Shops

    Nero’s Golden House

    Chapter 19: Republic and empire

    Why the kingdom ended

    The republic and its end

    The early emperors

    The empire expands

    The decline of the glory

    Chapter 20: Daily Life

    Pompeii

    Food and Drink

    Clothes

    Education

    Time and the Calendar

    Painting, sculpture, drama and literature

    Earning a living

    Games and pastimes

    Chapter 21: The state and religion

    Government and the law

    Religion and legends

    Christianity

    Slavery

    Chapter 22: The arena

    The amphitheatre

    The Colosseum

    Gladiators

    The Circus Maximus

    Chapter 23: The army

    The citizen soldier and the legion

    Uniform, weapons and tactics

    Siege engines

    Marching camps

    The officers

    Roman roads

    Chapter 24: Barbarians at the Gate

    Barbarians settle inside the frontiers

    Some provinces are abandoned

    Constantine, his town and the division of the empire

    Alaric and the sack of Rome

    More Barbarian attacks

    The Byzantine Empire lasts another thousand years

    POSTCRIPT: The legacy of Rome

     

    thank you all so much.

    Melissa

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