General
Massive site: teacher’s use, probably, initially, although you’ll use it to find sites for your children to read. If they want to read the originals, here they are!
Unit 1 – The Books of Moses
Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile
Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids
Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 4: Creation Through Noah
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations
- The law code of Hammurabi: scroll down to see a translation of the actual text, and read commentary that sums up the actual text. Rhetoric and up.
Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law
Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God
Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Unit 2 – All Governments Are Established by God
Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism
- Read more about Indian history and their laws here.
Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism
- Ancient Chinese Law.
- The Analects of Confucius.
Week 12: Ancient Americas
- Definitions of forms of government.
- Mesoamerican Governments
Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 16: Israel’s Judges and Neighbors
Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians
- Becoming a Leader After God’s Heart: Studies in the Life of David
Unit 3 – Preparing the World for its Savior
Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart
- Solomon (scroll down to bottom of the page)
Week 20: The Divided Kingdom
Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity
- Great site on Lycurgus.
Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home
- Another great site on Lycurgus.
Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars
- There are no Government objectives for this week.
Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars
- Scroll down to read about “Democracy and the Age of Pericles”
- “Pure Democracy”
Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy
- Aristotle’s Politics
- SparkNotes on Politics
Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation
- Plato’s Republic
- Aristotle’s Politics
- SparkNotes on Politics
Unit 4 – In the Fullness of Time
Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome
- Plato’s Republic
Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life
- Plato’s Republic
Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars
- Plato’s Republic
Week 31: From Republic to Empire
- Plato’s Republic
Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement
- Plato’s Republic
Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church
- No helpful links this week.
Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church
- Augustine’s City of God
Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies
- Augustine’s City of God
Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils
- Augustine’s City of God