This is a four year history lesson outline to be used by the whole family. For now I will be posting the first year of lessons. This can be used as a stand alone guide, but for the recommended supplemental material for this year you will need the first volume and the first activity book of The Story of the World, and you will need Part 1 of From Adam to Us, along with the Map Book and Student Activity Book that go with it.

Begin with lesson 1A.

Once you finish the four years of lessons, start over. Every student should completely finish the curriculum at least twice in their school years, with activities adapted to their age and understanding. The yearly lessons are labeled by lesson number and year letter (1A is lesson one in the first year outline). This outline focuses on concurrent historical events and on the order of events rather than memorizing a bunch of dates. You can use it as a stand alone guide, but I highly recommend using it to correlate the two curriculums mentioned above. I also add LDS-Christian commentary to the lessons.

And please feel free to add your own suggested books or other learning materials to the comments section of the pertinent date.

Friday, August 21, 2020

4A -- Post Flood to 2000 BC (Week Three)

 Week three: the Indus, China, Africa


1. Lesson Pages from Supplemental Materials:

·         From Adam to Us: p. 88-92 (additional activities for these pages are in the accompanying Map Book and Student Workbook)

·         Story of the World, vol. 1: p. 59-65, 66-87 (additional activities for these pages are in the accompanying The Story of the World: Activity Book One)

2. Study material for family discussion (older students can read on their own, parents can read and summarize for younger students):

https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/FeaturesAfrica/PrehistorySahara01.htm

                This article discusses the change in climate that occurred in the Sahara a few hundred years after the flood. We can surmise that the Sahara was livable for some time, or animals would not have made it into southern Africa from where the ark landed in Turkey. They would not have crossed the great desert that the Sahara has become.

There is art in the Sahara showing animals common to Africa living in the area. Scientists date the art using their best educated guess, since rocks cannot be dated like living things (which do not always date correctly either). And since they do not believe in the Flood, it skews their view of climate data they use to help date that era as well. Keep this in mind when you hear dates like 10,000 years ago.

People in this time period were spreading out, moving south into more parts of Africa and east as far as China.

            The Indus Civilization may be one of the places that was built on pre-Flood ruins. This area was built with mud-brick, but the bricks here were baked in giant kilns because it rains a lot and sun-dried bricks would not hold up to the rains.

            The Indus River still flows, but at one time she had a sister river, the Sarasvati (or Saraswati). More ancient sites are found on the dried route of this river than on the Indus. Whatever caused this river to stop flowing contributed to the decline of the civilization. This article has a map showing the original route of the Sarasvati: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/harappan-site-saraswati-river-indus-valley-civilisation-254124-2015-05-22 .

 3. Attention Getter: Show a picture of the Sahara desert today and ask your children what kinds of animals they think could survive there. 


4. Videos:

https://smarthistory.org/rock-art-in-the-green-sahara/ (remember, it is not possible to date rocks, and the fact the animals depicted are the same ones that exist farther south in Africa suggests these pictures were done after the flood. It is somewhat comical that after showing a definitely not man-mad enormous climate change, this ends with blaming disappearing rock art on modern man-made climate change.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUng-iHhSzU (Indus)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73yFDlgqPio (Indus for teens)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlBEEuYIWwY (Hinduism summarized, this religion most likely had its beginnings in the Indus era)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1pTPf0IlI (Lei zu and silk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50GmeiIsY2w (the very mythical version of Huangdi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzbbumvYsO0 (real images of Huangdi’s tomb and yearly celebration--more for teens) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oQ5Jd7p2aY (the San of Africa, remind students that measurements of time in the 10,000s are not correct)

5. Mapping: Find the Sahara desert and the Indus River on a modern map of the world. Which countries are these places in now? Using a scale, find out how wide the desert is from north to south and talk about what it would take to cross this. There is a student map on Student Page 28 of Story of the World, Activity Book One.

6. Poster: Draw a picture of what you think your home would have looked like in Mohenjo-Daro or in Sahara when it was still habitable.

 7. World History Reading:

·         Tales of Indian Gods & Goddesses by Divya Jain. Most of us are familiar with Greek mythology and their pantheon of gods and goddesses; this book will introduce some Indian religious figures.

·         Time-Life Student Library Ancient Civilizations 3000 BC – AD 500, p. 46-47


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