Kindergarten, History, Week 27

• Read chapter 29 in Child's History (Wise Men and Otherwise)
• Philip was king of Macedonia (find it on a map) and wanted to be king of Greece also
• Philip didn't want to fight, thought up a scheme (a tricky plan)
• Offered to lead Greece in conquering Persia
• Philip was killed
• His son, Alexander, became king -- he was only 20 years old
• Read chapter 30 in Child's History (A Boy King)
• Alexander was king of Macedonia and Greece
• Crossed the Hellespont to fight Persia
• Conquered Persia and never lost any important battles
• One Alexandria he founded was in Egypt.
• There he built a great library; books were scrolls (the last great library we talked about, books were clay tablets)
• Built a lighthouse on an island, Pharos
• Alexander traveled into India, conquering peoples
• Taught the Greek language to peoples he conquered (the New Testament was written in Greek)
• Look at pages 56 - 57 in Ancient World
• Read The Great Alexander The Great by Lasker
• Read chapter 31 in Child's History (Picking a Fight)
• Champion countries were: Nineveh (Assyria), Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Macedonia
• Rome became strong, conquered Italy, and began to look around for more countries to conquer
• Rome was jealous of Carthage's wealth
• Carthage didn't like seeing Rome so powerful
• Rome had no ships; Carthage had many, many ships
• Romans found a wrecked Carthaginian ship and copied it to build a fleet of ships
• Romans weren't experienced sailors and knew they wouldn't win battles by ramming holes in ships
• Romans had the idea of hooking their ship to an enemy ship and boarding it to fight. It worked.
• This is called the Punic War, Rome eventually won
• Work on time line if you have time