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...

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

(and were stopped by my ancestors the French at the Battle of Tours ::g::).
Had to show this to the boys: they studied the Battle of Tours!

Re: Yes...

[culturevulture7.livejournal.com]

::g:: Somewhere as a child, I read a book (or two) about all the wars of the past and in either there or a book about horses, they talked about the Battle of Tours and the small Arabian horses and light armor of the Arabs vs. the big horses and heavy armor of the French at Tours (which is quite a lovely city in France, BTW!)

I'm a history major too and in the survey course, it tends to be "Fall of Rome, dark ages, Renaissance." As one of my professors once said "nobody woke up one morning and said "oh, it's the Dark Ages!"