History Week by Week

Tapestry of Grace History Lessons Overview

Unit 1: The Middle Ages

1. Twilight of the Western Roman Empire
2. Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church
3. Byzantine Empire and Rise of Islam
4. The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne
5. Developments During the Viking Age
6. Medieval Life: Feudalism
7. The High Middle Ages
8. The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East
9. The Reshaping of Medieval Europe
10. Early Lights of the Reformation

Unit 2: Renaissance & Reformation

11. Introduction to the Southern Renaissance
12. The Southern Renaissance and the Early Explorers
13. The Southern Renaissance and the Age of Exploration
14. Spanish Dominion and the New World: Aztecs and Incas
15. The Northern Renaissance and Its Scholars
16. The Reformation: Martin Luther and the German States
17. The Reformation in Switzerland, England, and Scandinavia
18. The Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, and the Netherlands
19. Elizabethan England and the Scottish Reformation

Unit 3: Of Crowns and Colonies

20. Early New World Colonies and Eastern Europe
21. Puritans in New England
22. Charters, Creeds, and the English Civil War
23. Restoration Colonies and the Age of Louis XIV
24. Dissenters in America and the Age of Reason
25. Colonists and Native Americans
26. Empires at Odds
27. Thirteen Established Colonies

Unit 4: Age of Revolutions

28. Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture
29. French and Indian War
30. Give Me Liberty!
31. First Battles for Independence
32. Waging the Revolutionary War
33. America under the Articles of the Confederation
34. Writing the Constitution
35. Federal Republic & French Revolution
36. Perilous Times: The Adams Administration