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Rome to Reformation history lessons

You know what is a fascinating time period? The Middle Ages. The time from the end of the Roman Empire to the start of the Reformation have so many fun hands-on history lessons you can go through.  So let’s call this Rome to Reformation history lessons. Mainly because I like how that sounds, it sounds more fun than Middle Ages history lessons.

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Middles Ages Resources

Middle Ages RESOURCES

As we studied the Middle Ages we used Mystery of History 2 as our spine. In addition, there were a few other items we pulled out from time to time (I do occasionally have resources for specific time periods, and those got their own posts, which’ll be linked below).

Future Ticia 2024, when we did our final cycle through history for high school, I wrote our history for high school adding in stuff I really wanted to make sure we added in, and so I have even more resources I’m slowly adding in here. so much to add in.

But, here are a few resources that are generic for Middle Ages.

  • Conquest of Empires– can you take over the Roman empire, this would work great for the first time period I’m gonna mention and it’s one my boys regularly pull out
  • Dominion– set in a vaguely middle age time, and one with lots of expansions, which we have many of, it’s pulled out on a regular basis: Full review of Dominion.
  • I don’t have any other resources to recommend that fit across the entire time, Conquest of Empires is really only here out of pity. As I find more I’ll add them in.

Middle Ages: The Roman Empire

Many of the four year cycle history curriculums start off their Middle Ages time period with the Roman Empire, so with that, I thought I would link you over to our Roman history unit.

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So, if you’re Middle Ages history curriculum starts with Ancient Rome, you’re all set with some really fun ideas.

While all of that is going on, Saint Valentine gets some people hitched and Saint Patrick drives all of the snakes out of Ireland (or maybe not).

Now if you go with certain versions of history, this is also when King Arthur happens, and for that you need to try out:

All right, and that ends the bits that are somewhat happening, or possibly happening during the Roman Empire, so we transition into what we usually call.

The Middle Ages history lessons, a bit of fun context

Before we get into actual history events, let’s look at some history lessons that give us an idea of the time period.

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Let’s focus our attention on some super fun people from the Middle Ages: VIKINGS!

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The tricky thing about the Vikings, there are not a lot of famous Vikings, like I can name two, and they’re responsible for the two history lessons on specific events for this part. I tried looking for more and mainly found some interesting mythology that gets into debates on reality.

A bit of confusion going on more or less at the same time as the Vikings in the Middle Ages

So the age of Vikings takes place over an extended period of time, hundreds of years. During that same time there’s a few other things going on.

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MORE Middle Ages IDEAS

While these Middle Ages ideas can get you through a school year, we had many fails I did not post about for several of our earth science units.  Besides some people have a different take on how they did the projects that might work better for you, so check out my Middle Ages Pinterest board for more ideas.

 


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