The Mystery of History Volume 1, 2nd Edition:
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Revised 2nd Edition - More for Your Money
This Revised 2nd edition of The Mystery of History Volume 1 includes 144 pages of new material. While maintaining the same theme and format as the 1st edition, this new edition has improved lessons, more activities and teacher support, and improved layout, art and photos, simplified timelines, and more.

All you need to teach Ancient Civilizations through the time of Christ
Written by home-school mom Linda Hobar, The Mystery of History is one spectacular masterpiece. It is all your family will need to teach from ancient civilizations through to the time of Christ. Written in a conversational style for the fourth through eighth grade reader, The Mystery of History can also be used as a read-aloud with younger children.

Multi-age Activities
Not just a textbook, it is brimming with multi-age activities, book and video lists, memory helps, and timeline suggestions. What appeals to us most about this program is its worldwide approach to history.

Teaches History from Creation to Resurrection
Did you know that less than ten years after Jonah's trial in a fish, Rome was being established? Or that the last book of the Old Testament was written at about the time of Alexander the Great and that the Great Wall of China was built 200 years before the birth of Christ?

Combines Biblical & Secular History
As they read the Bible, Christians tend to forget that there were other civilizations warring, struggling, and searching for truth. So this history program is written with both Biblical and secular history combined. While decidedly Christian in bent, other cultures and faiths are presented with deference.

108 Lessons
The Mystery of History was designed with a 36-week school year in mind. Each week includes a pre-test, three lessons, a review, and an exercise or quiz. If your family is ready to study history in an in-depth, Bible-centered, chronological fashion, The Mystery of History is for you.

Another outstanding component of Timberdoodle's Seventh Grade Core Curriculum!

Author's review:

In Volume I of The Mystery of History, I cover world history from Creation to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The text spans the incredible stories of ancient times, ancient lands, and ancient peoples.

Where most ancient studies encompass only Egypt, Greece, and Rome, The Mystery of History goes much farther.  In Volume I, I include chronologically based stories from all around the world.  Beginning with the Garden of Eden, stories will spread from Sumer and Babel to Troy, Phoenicia, and Assyria.  The study of early civilizations will include King Wu of China and Asoka of India as well as King David, Julius Caesar, and Xerxes of Persia.  Even North America is visited in our look at ancient peoples.

Above all, a favorite feature of Volume I is the weaving of Bible history with world history.  In reality, it is all world history.  But for most of us, history has not been taught this way.  It has not been integrated.  In The Mystery of History, I have retold major stories from the Bible in the order that they happened alongside significant world history events and figures.  As an example, each one of the Old Testament prophets are given a biographical lesson near their contemporaries in old world history.
 
More examples of interesting figures who lived just decades apart include:  Joshua and King Tut; Ruth and Helen of Troy; Daniel and Aesop; Ezekiel and Buddha; and Nehemiah and Socrates.  Imagine lining up such amazing figures on one master timeline!  Imagine learning their stories back to back in the order they happened!  For most of us, it's an illuminating experience.