Kindergarten, History, Week 21

Monday

• I read chapter 18 from Child's History.
• We reviewed where Babylon was on the globe
• Items to note:
• The king of Babylon conquered more lands because he wanted Babylon to be as great as Nineveh had been.
• When the king of Babylon died, his son, Nebuchadnezzar became the king.
• Nebuchadnezzar married a princess from Media
• Nebuchadnezzar built a hill with beautiful gardens on top of the palace because his wife missed the hills of her homeland.
• This is called The Hanging Gardens.
• Nebuchadnezzar sent his armies to Jerusalem, destroyed the city, burnt the temple, and brought the Jews to Babylon.
• Babylon became very wicked.

Tuesday

• We looked at pages 46 and 47 of Ancient World.

Wednesday

• I read 2 Kings 25:1-21 and Daniel 1
• I read from Aesop for Children

Thursday

• I read chapter 19 from Child's History.
• We looked at where Babylon, Media, and Persia were on the map.
• Items to note:
• The Medes' laws were fixed hard and fast and were unchangeable. (reference story of Daniel and the lions den)
• Croesus was the king of Lydia and owned many gold mines.
• Cyrus, king of Persia, wanted the gold mines, so attacked and conquered Lydia.
• Cyrus attacked Babylon while Belshazzar was having a party.
• Cyrus' army dammed the Euphrates River and came in through the dry riverbed.
• I read Daniel 5 for the rest of the story.

Friday

• We worked on our time line.