EMPIRES (a History Fair booklet), by Justin

[ciroccoj]

Here's Justin's history fair book, Empires and When They Ruled. He was responsible for picking/drawing all of the illustrations, writing the text or narrating the text to me, and organizing and arranging the text and pictures. I typed in his work, pointed out some of his more obvious errors, and helped him with the layout a bit.

Oh, and I also introduced him to the concept of self-plagiarism. As he had already written a few pages about the Muslim empires in his book on Religion, we decided he would just reuse those pages here, rather than write out new ones :)



Table of Contents
1. Byzantium
2. Muslim Empire
3. Crusades
4. Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire
5. Mongols
6. Vikings
7. Great People

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For me and the kids to use:
Religions, by Justin
Great Buildings, by Daniel
The Fall of Rome, by Daniel

Comments

Re: Yes...

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, there we are then. Somehow this was left out of my "Western Civ" education.

I know that Ottoman Turks do not equal Arabs--I just wasn't aware that there was a Muslim empire that predated the Ottomans. Especially since they ruled everything for like 1000 years.

Re: Yes...

[culturevulture7.livejournal.com]

I think the Ottomans come in sometime after the Mongols overran most of the Muslim empire in the 1200s (which started fracturing in the 700s-800s? Of course, this is all off the top of my head. We need woffproff to settle this for us.

Re: Yes...

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Actually I learned about all of this! While I was teaching the boys, that is. I'm embarrassed to admit that I, a History major, knew next to nothing about the difference between the Ottoman and Chesterfield Muslim Empires. It took The Story of the World, meant for children aged 7-12 or so, for me to learn it. That, and the boys asking all sorts of questions I didn't know the answers to :)

Ah well.

It's a very ancient saying,
But a true and honest thought,
That if you become a teacher,
By your pupils you'll be taught.