Year 1
First Quarter (numbers refer to weeks)
1 Pre-existence, Plan of Salvation, Creation, study of origins TOG 1:1:4a (Creation through Noah)
2 Adam and Eve and their family
3 Descendants of Seth, Enoch and Zion, Noah TOG 1:1:4b
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 3 Jubal and Tubal-Cain (c. 5000 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 4 Noah and the Flood (c. 4000-3500BC)
4 Archeological Pre-History
5 Babel, Jaredites, Early Mesopotamia (Uruk culture, Sumerian City-States) TOG1:1:5
SOTW 1:1, 3, 5
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 7 The Sumerians (c. 3500-2500 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 8 The Tower of Babel (c. 3500-3000 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 9 The Epic of Gilgamesh ( 2750 BC)
6 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob TOG1:1:6; Stonehenge
SOTW 1:6
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 13 Abraham
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 14 Jacob and Esau (2005 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 15 Joseph (1914 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 16 Hammurabi (1792 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 10 Stonehenge (c. 2700 BC)
7 Ancient Egypt--Geography, Climate, Culture TOG1:1:1
SOTW 1:2
8 Ancient Egypt--History (Predynastic, Old Kingdom/Middle Kingdom) TOG 1:1:2
SOTW 1:4
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 11 Early Egyptians (c. 2575-2500 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 17 The Israelites in Slavery (Began c. 1875-1730 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 22 Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti (1353 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 23 Tutankhamen (1333 BC)
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 24 Ramses II (The Great) (1304-1237 BC)
9 Moses and the Exodus TOG 1:1:3
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 19 Moses and the Exodus (c. 1525-1270 BC)
10 Israel in the Wilderness
In The Wilderness: Holiness: Worshipping God as God TOG 1:1:8
In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors TOG 1:1:9
SOTW 1:7, 8
11 The tabernacle, the covenant and the Priesthood
TOG1:1:7 In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle and the Law
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 20 The Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle (c. 1500 BC)
SOTW 1:14
12 Ancient India--Harappa Period, Aryan Invasion, Hinduism, Buddhism
TOG 1:2:10 The Indus Valley, Hinduism, and Buddhism
SOTW 1:9, 30, 31
Mystery of History I Lesson 40: India and Hinduism, Lesson 63: Buddha; 88 Emperor Asoka of India
Streams of Civilization 1 p. 39-42
Family Resource: talk to Grandpa B. about his experience living in India
Second Quarter
1 Ancient China, Hsia, Shang, Confucius, Taoism
TOG 1:2:11 Ancient China: Confucius and Taoism
SOTW 1:10, 32, 33
MoH 1 Lesson 18: China and the Shang Dynasty; Lesson 29: Zhou Dynasty; 65: Confucius; 90: The Qin Dynasty; 92: the Han Dynasty
Streams of Civilization I p. 216-226
Family Resource: Ask for stories or pictures from family members who have visited China
2 Ancient Americas, Inuit, Mound Builders, Olmec, Chavin, Jaredite History
*LDS: The Book of Mormon gives a unique perspective on some of the native American peoples. At least 3 groups of people came to the Americas, via boats, from the Middle East. The first Group, Jaredites, came about the time of the Tower of Babel. Two other groups came from Jerusalem around 600 BC, one led by the prophet Lehi and another by Mulek, a son of King Zedekiah. We do not know exactly where these peoples settled, although many Book of Mormon scholars point to central America. Nor do we know who they may have interacted and mingled with other peoples in the Americas, though it seems possible that some of the traces of civilization we find in mesoamerica are either traces of these peoples or were influenced by them.
TOG 1:2:12 Ancient Americas: Inuit, Mound Builders, and Mayas
SOTW 1:26
SofCiv I p. 68-72, 91-94, 318-326
Family Resources: Stories of visiting ancient ruins in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia.
G: Rain Player (Wisniewski)
3 Peoples of Canaan, Phoenicians
4 Israelite Conquest and Judges
TOG 1:2:15 The Promised Land: Conquest and Settlement
SOTW 1:11
5 Early Greek Life, language, culture
6 Early Greeks, Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, Trojan history
TOG 1:2:13 Early Greeks: Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, and Trojan Cultures
Mystery of History V1 Lesson 12 The Minoan Civilization (2200BC)
SOTW 1:18, 19
SofCiv I, p. 63-67
7 Mesopotamia, Hittites
8 Samuel and Saul
TOG Week 16: Judges, Samuel, and Minor Neighboring Cultures
SotW 1 Chapter 12
SofCiv I p. 78-79; 74-76
MoH I Lesson 21: Joshua, Jericho and Rahab; 26: Ruth and Naomi; 27: Gideon; 28: Samson; 30: Samuel;
Bible: Joshua 1-12, Judges 1-21, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1-7
9 Philistines
TOG Week 17: The Rise of Saul and the Philistines
MoH I Lesson 31: King Saul
10 David
MoH 1 32: David; 34: The Phoenicians
Bible: 1 Samuel 8-31, 2 Samuel
11 Solomon
12 The Divided Kingdom (TOG 1:3:19)
TOGR 1:3:20 The Divided Kingdom
SOTW 1: 13
Third
1 The Assyrians, Israel carried captive
TOGR 1:3:21 The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported
SOTW 1:15, 16
2 BoM: 1 Nephi, Lehi's family leave Jerusalem
3 The Chaldeans (neo-Babylonians), Babylonian Captivity, BoM history
TOGR 1:3:22 The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity
SOTW 1:17
4 The Medes and Persions: The Israelites Return Home
TOGR 1:3:23 The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home
SOTW 1:21
5 Book of Mormon History
6 The Greeks and Persians: The Persian Wars, Athens, and Sparta United
TOGR 1:3:24 Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars, Athens, and Sparta
SOTW 1:24
7 The Golden Age of Greece: Peleponnesian Wars
TOGR 1:3:25 The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian War
SOTW 1:22
8 Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy (TOG 1:3:26)
SOTW 1:20
9 Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation (TOG 1:3:27)
SOTW 1:25
10 The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome (TOG 1:3:28)
SOTW 1:27
11 The Roman Republic: Everyday Life TOGR 1:4:29
SOTW 1:28
12 The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars TOGR 1:4:30
SOTW 1:29
Fourth Quarter
1 BoM: Alma, Helaman
2 The Ancient Celts, Julius Caesar, the Gallic Wars
TOGR 1:4:31 From Republic to Empire
SOTW 1:34, 35
3 BoM Birth of Christ through 3rd Nephi 11
4 Imperial Rome: Everyday Life and the Life of Christ
TOGR 1:4:32 Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement
SOTW 1:36, 37
5 More on Imperial Rome and the Rise of the Early Church
TOGR 1:4:33 The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church
SOTW 1:38
6 Saints and Martyrs, 4th Nephi, Mormon
TOGR 1:4:34 Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church
SOTW 1:39
7 In this Sign Conquer: Constantine
TOGR 1:4:35 Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies
8 The Fall of Rome; End of the Nephite Civilization (Mormon, Moroni)
TOGR 1:4:36 Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils
SOTW 1:40, 41, 42
9 Review and Project Week, TOG 2:1:1 (Review of Year 1 Themes)
SOTW 2:1 The Glory That Was Rome
10 Byzantine Empire, Early Evangelists TOG 2:1:2
SOTW 2:4 The Byzantine Empire
SOTW 2:2 The Early Days of Britain
11 The Rise of Islam TOG 2:1:3, Mayans
SOTW 2:6 Rise of Islam
SOTW 2:7 Islam Becomes an Empire
SOTW 2:12 The Islamic Invasion
SOTW 2:5 The Medieval Indian Empire
SOTW 2:8 The Great Dynasties of China
SOTW 2:9 East of China
SOTW 2:10 The Bottom of the World
12 The Dark Ages, Monasticism, and the Vikings
SOTW 2:3 Christianity Comes to Britain
SOTW 2:11 The Kingdom of the Franks
SOTW 2:13 The Great Kings of France
SOTW 2:14 The Arrival of the Norsemen
http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/sotwtog2.htm TOG, SOTW correspondence
http://www.tapestryofgrace.com/year1/history.php WEBLINKS
Year 2
First Quarter
1 The Making of Medieval Europe
SOTW 2:15 The First Kings of England
2 Medieval Life: Feudalism
SOTW 2:16 England After the Conquest
SOTW 2:17a Knights and Samurai
3The High Middle Ages, Of Popes & Princes:
Crusades, Indulgences, Inquisition; The History of the English language
SOTW 2:18 The Age of Crusades
SOTW 2:19 A New Kind of King
SOTW 2:17b The Diaspora
4 The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East TOG 2:1:8
SOTW 2:21 The Mongols Devastate the East
SOTW 2:22 Exploring the Mysterious East
SOTW 2:20 Knights and Samurai
5 The Late Middle Ages: Reshaping of Western Europe
SOTW 2:12 The Islamic Invasion (Review)
SOTW 2:23 The First Russians
SOTW 2:24 The Ottoman Empire
SOTW 2:25 The End of the World
SOTW 2:26 France and England at War
SOTW 2:27 War for the English Throne
SOTW 2:29 African Kingdoms
SOTW 2:30 India under the Moghuls
6 Early Lights (Gutenberg and Pre-Reformation Saints) TOG 2:1:10—Middle Ages Celebration
SOTW 2:35b Gutenberg's Great Invention
7 The Southern Renaissance TOG 2:2:11
SOTW 2:35a The Renaissance
8 Age of Exploration: Early Explorers and Columbus TOG 2:2:12
SOTW 2:28 The Kingdoms of Spain & Portugal
SOTW 2:31 Exploring New Worlds
9 Age of Exploration: Later Explorers TOG 2:2:13
10 Age of Exploration: Spanish Dominion in the New World: Aztecs and Incas TOG 2:2:14
SOTW 2:32 The American Kingdoms
SOTW 2:33 Spain, Portugal and the New World
11 The Northern Renaissance: Erasmus TOG 2:2:15
12 The Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther and the German States TOG 2:2:16, The Reformation in Switzerland, England, and Scandinavia TOG 2:2:17
SOTW 2:34 Martin Luther's New Ideas
SOTW 2:36a The Spread of the Reformation
SOTW 2:39 England's Greatest Playwright
SOTW 3:1a The Holy Roman Empire
SOTW 3:9 The 30 Years' War
Second Quarter
1 The Counter Reformation: French Huguenots and the Netherlands TOG 2:2:18, Elizabethan England and the Scottish Reformation TOG 2:2:19
SOTW 2:36b The Council of Trent
SOTW 2:38 England's Greatest Queen
SOTW 2:42 Empires Collide
SOTW 3:2a The Dutch Revolt
SOTW 3:2b Mary, Queen of Scots
SOTW 3:3a James and His Enemies
2 Early English Colonies in America: Jamestown TOG 2:2:20
SOTW 2:40 New Ventures to the Americas
SOTW 3:3b King James's Town
SOTW 3:7a Tobacco & Unwilling Colonists
3 Early English Colonies in America: Plymouth TOG 2:2:21
SOTW 2:41 Explorations in the North
SOTW 3:6a Strangers & Saints in Plymouth
SOTW 3:15a King Philip's War
4 Early Non-English Settlements in America: New France and Early Documents TOG 2:2:22
SOTW 2:37 The New Universe
SOTW 3:4 Searching for the NW Passage
SOTW 3:6b The Dutch in the New World
SOTW 3:15b Louis XIV Saves New France
SOTW 3:15c William Penn's Experiment
5 Colonial New England and the Age of Reason 1: Science Leads the Way TOG 2:2:23
SOTW 2:37 The New Universe
6 Settlement of the Middle Colonies and the Rise of Absolutism: TOG 2:2:24
SOTW 3:13 The Sun King
SOTW 3:14 The Rise of Prussia
SOTW 3:17 Russia Looks West
7 The Southern Colonies and Puritan England TOG 2:2:25
SOTW 3:12 Battle, Fire, Plague in England
SOTW 3:15c Glorious Revolution (mentioned in W. Penn)
8 Everyday Life in Colonial America and the Age of Reason II TOG 2:2:26, Everyday Life in the American Colonies and the Great Awakening TOG 2:2:27
SOTW 3:16 The Universal Laws of Newton and Locke
9 The Northern Colonies TOG 2:2:28
10 The Middle Colonies TOG 2:2:29
11 The Southern Colonies TOG 2:2:30
12 European Events that Shaped America: The French and Indian War TOG 2:2:31
SOTW 3:21 Fighting Over North America
Third Quarter
1 The American Revolutionary War: It's Foundation TOG 2:2:32
SOTW 3:22a Discontent in the British Colonies
2 The American Revolutionary War: Its Course 2:2:33
SOTW 3:22b The American Revolution
3 The American Revolutionary War: Its Outcome and the French Revolution 2:4:34
SOTW 3:25 Revolution Gone Sour
4 The US Constitution: It's Inception 2:4:35
SOTW 3:23a The American Constitution
5 The US Constitution: It's Ratification 2:4:36
SOTW 3:23b The First American President
6 Review previous threads and study Presidency of George Washington TOG 3:1:1 Review of Absolutism and the French Revolution and Review of the Adams Presidency 3:1:2
7 Napoleon: The Man and His Career 3:1:3
8 Napoleonic Europe and Romanticism 3:1:4
9 Early Industrial Revolution in England and America 3:1:5
10 Review the Constitution and Jefferson: Development of the Supreme Court 3:1:6
11 The Jeffersonian Presidency, Lewis and Clark 3:1:7
12 James Madison's Presidency and the War of 1812 3:1:8
Fourth Quarter
1 The Congress of Vienna and Simon Bolivar 3:1:9
2 Congress of Vienna II, President Monroe 3:1:10
3 William Carey in India, Reviewing Hinduism and Buddhim 3:2:11
4 John Quincy Adams: Nationalism and Sectionalism 3:2:12
5 Jacksonian Democracy and the Rise of Individualism 3:2:13
6 European Society 1815-1840: Waves of Revolution and Australia 3:2:14
7 Joseph Smith, First Vision, Restoration
8 Overview of American Expansion TOG 3:2:15 (This week discusses Mormons)
9 Manifest Destiny(1840-1848) Pioneers Head West! TOG 3:2:16 Brigham Young and the Pioneers
10 The Mexican-American War and President Polk, More Pioneers TOG 3:2:17 Mormon Batallion
11Uprisings of 1848: Marx, Telegraph, Gold Rush, and Pony Express TOG 3:2:18
12 China, Japan, the Opium Wars, and Hudson Taylor TOG 3:3:19
Year 3 Expanded
First Quarter
1 Crimean War, Sardinia, and the Unification of Italy TOG 3:3:20
2 A Nation Dividing, The Underground Railroad and Buchanan 3:3:21
3 Civil War I: The Generals, Battles, and Events, President Lincoln 3:3:22
4 Civil War II: Personalities, Portraits, and Appotamox 3:3:23
5 Reconstruction: Presidents Johnson and Grant, Transcontinental Railroad 3:3:24, Utah/Church History, Plains Indians Wars (1850's to 1870's) 3:3:25
6 Unification of Germany, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell TOG 3:3:26
7 Review of African History: Livingstone and Slessor TOG 3:4:27
8 European Imperialism—Focus on Africa TOG 3:4:28
9 Victorian England and the British Empire TOG 3:4:29
10 American Culture during the Gilded Age and Impressionism TOG 3:4:30; Social Darwinism and Laissez Faire Economics, Immigration: Statue of Liberty TOG 3:4:31
11 Immigration and Immigrants who made good TOG 3:4:32; Ellis Island, Inventors, Trust Buster, and Labor Issues TOG 3:4:33
12 Populists, Progressives and Muckrakers, George Washington Carver TOG 3:4:34 Scientists, the Salvation Army, and Charles Spurgeon TOG 3:4:35
Second Quarter
1 Henry Ford, Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, and Spanish American War TOG 3:4:36
2 Dawn of the 20th Century TOG 4:1:1; The Progressive Era: Roosevelt, American Imperialism, Hawaii, and Crumbling World Empires TOG 4:1:2
3 Wilson's Reforms and Europe's War: World War 1 TOG 4:1:3
4 WW1: Deadlock and Death TOG 4:1:4, America Mobilizes and Russia Revolts TOG 4:1:5
5 Winning the War and Losing the Peace TOG 4:1:6
6 Postwar America TOG 4:1:7
7 America's roaring 20's and Russia's StalinTOG 4:1:8
8 American Ballyhoo and Hitler's Early Career TOG 4:1:9
9 Bull Market and Black Market TOG 4:2:10
10 Crash! The Great Depression in America TOG 4:2:11
11 FDR and the New Deal TOG 4:2:12
12 Aggression and Appeasement TOG 4:2:13
Third Quarter
1 Blitzkrieg! TOG 4:2:14
2 World Wide War TOG 4:2:15
3 Unconditional Surrender TOG 4:2:16
4 Hot War to Cold War TOG 4:2:17
5 LDS Church after WWII (On Wings of Faith)
6 A Jewish Homeland TOG 4:2:18
7 Gandhi's India and Pakistani Independence TOG 4:3:19
8 Mao's China TOG 4:3:20
9 The Korean War 4:3:21
10 Eisenhower and the 1950's Oasis 4:3:22
11 US Civil Rights Movement and African Decolonization 4:3:23
12 The Kennedy Years 4:3:24
Fourth Quarter
1 The Space Race and Mutually Assured Destruction 4:3:25
2 Lyndon B. Johnson: The Great Society and Vietnam TOG 4:3:26
3 Cultural Developments of the 1960's TOG 4:3:27, World History Review
4 Overview: Foundering on the Rocks of Individualism TOG 4:4:28, continue World History
5 The Family Adrift TOG 4:4:29, Continue World History
6 The Nixon Years TOG 4:3:30
7 Ford's Integrity and Carter's Malaise TOG 4:3:31
8 Reagan's Revolution TOG 4:3:32
9 Bush's New World Order TOG 4:3:33
10 Clinton's Opportunity TOG 4:3:34
11 George W. Bush Century TOG 4:3:35
12 Obama, Current Issues TOG 4:3:36
