Tag: ancient mesopotamia
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Ancient Sumeria Books
This past year we went through ancient history at a breakneck pace, and that meant I made lots of book lists for our history lessons. Once we finished our Worldview Unit, we started into Ancient Sumeria, and of course, I went to our library and got every single book they had on Ancient Sumeria, so…
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Darius 1 preschool lesson
As we read our homeschool history lesson for the day in the Mystery of History 1*, and Darius 1 was known for fixing the roads in the Babylonian Kingdom and putting in a lot of infrastructure. He was a pretty impressive leader in Ancient history, especially after the craziness of the Babylonians (Future Ticia 2024 says,…
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5 easy Ancient Babylon lessons to teach your kids
When Jeff and I got married we went to London for our honeymoon. We spent large amounts of time in the British Museum traipsing about through ancient ruins, and trying to figure out what those people were thinking. The Babylonian ruins were particularly fascinating to explore as they had large portions of walls that were…
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How the catapult changed history
In our house we have weird discussions, does that happen in your house? One day my husband and I started talking about technology that changed the world. We came up with the usual ones, and then we started to get into military technology and how the catapult changed history. This may actually have started with…
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Phoenician activities
It’d been a while since we had done some fun hands on stuff, so when we read about the Phoenicians I knew this was the time. So I came up with some fun Phoenician activities. {This post contains affiliate links. See my full Disclosure statement for more information} By far my most popular Phoenician activity…