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FOR HOMESCHOOLING FAMILIES
A term of history, one map at a time
Each atlas divides naturally into a term: one chapter a week, read aloud or alone, each with its causes, turning point, consequences and a dinner-table question with a full answer. The plans below are generated straight from the chapters — click any week to read it now.
The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Republic and Its Rival |
| WEEK 2 | The Punic Wars: Hannibal |
| WEEK 3 | The Greek East Falls |
| WEEK 4 | The Republic Breaks |
| WEEK 5 | Caesar |
| WEEK 6 | Augustus |
| WEEK 7 | The Pax Romana |
| WEEK 8 | The Third-Century Crisis |
| WEEK 9 | Diocletian and Constantine |
| WEEK 10 | The Storm from the North |
| WEEK 11 | The Fall of the West |
| WEEK 12 | Why Rome Fell — and What Survived |
The Crusades, 1095–1291 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | Three Civilizations, One Sea |
| WEEK 2 | The First Crusade |
| WEEK 3 | A Society on the Edge |
| WEEK 4 | Europe’s First Standing Institutions |
| WEEK 5 | Zengi, Nur al-Din, and the Second Crusade |
| WEEK 6 | Saladin |
| WEEK 7 | The Third Crusade |
| WEEK 8 | The Fourth Crusade — The Wrong Ending |
| WEEK 9 | The Idea Turned Loose |
| WEEK 10 | The Crusades of Kings |
| WEEK 11 | Baibars and the End |
| WEEK 12 | What the Crusades Made |
The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The World of the Steppe |
| WEEK 2 | Temüjin Becomes Genghis Khan |
| WEEK 3 | The Fall of North China |
| WEEK 4 | The Khwarazm Catastrophe |
| WEEK 5 | The Great Raid |
| WEEK 6 | The Storm on the West |
| WEEK 7 | The Machinery of Empire |
| WEEK 8 | The Hammer on Islam |
| WEEK 9 | The Family War |
| WEEK 10 | Khubilai and the Song |
| WEEK 11 | The Limits of the World |
| WEEK 12 | The Long Shadow |
The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The World of 1775 |
| WEEK 2 | The American Revolution |
| WEEK 3 | The French Revolution |
| WEEK 4 | The Republic in the Balance |
| WEEK 5 | The Haitian Revolution |
| WEEK 6 | Napoleon Ascendant |
| WEEK 7 | The Empire and Its Cracks |
| WEEK 8 | 1812: The Russian Campaign |
| WEEK 9 | The Fall |
| WEEK 10 | Latin America Breaks Free |
| WEEK 11 | The Age of Restoration |
| WEEK 12 | 1848: The Springtime of Peoples |
The American Civil War, 1861–1865 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | A House Dividing |
| WEEK 2 | Secession Winter |
| WEEK 3 | The Illusions of 1861 |
| WEEK 4 | The Anaconda and the Rivers |
| WEEK 5 | The Virginia Deadlock |
| WEEK 6 | Antietam and Emancipation |
| WEEK 7 | The Twin Turning |
| WEEK 8 | Hard War |
| WEEK 9 | The Ballot and the March |
| WEEK 10 | Appomattox |
| WEEK 11 | Reconstruction — The Unfinished Revolution |
| WEEK 12 | Memory and Meaning |
The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Brittle Giant |
| WEEK 2 | The War Breaks the State |
| WEEK 3 | Dual Power |
| WEEK 4 | October |
| WEEK 5 | Brest-Litovsk |
| WEEK 6 | The Ring of Fire |
| WEEK 7 | Why the Reds Won |
| WEEK 8 | Intervention |
| WEEK 9 | The Borderlands’ Own Revolutions |
| WEEK 10 | 1920 — Warsaw and the Crimea |
| WEEK 11 | Victors Against the People |
| WEEK 12 | What Had Been Made |
The Great War, 1914–1918 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Powder Keg |
| WEEK 2 | The Guns of August |
| WEEK 3 | The Trench |
| WEEK 4 | The Widening War |
| WEEK 5 | The Furnaces |
| WEEK 6 | The Slowest Weapon |
| WEEK 7 | The World’s War |
| WEEK 8 | Breaking Points |
| WEEK 9 | Brest-Litovsk: The Gamble in the East Pays |
| WEEK 10 | The Spring Offensives and the Hundred Days |
| WEEK 11 | Armistice |
| WEEK 12 | The Peace That Failed |
The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The Gathering Storm |
| WEEK 2 | The Pact and the Partition of Poland |
| WEEK 3 | Blitzkrieg in the West |
| WEEK 4 | The Battle of Britain |
| WEEK 5 | Mussolini’s Parallel War |
| WEEK 6 | Barbarossa: The War of Annihilation |
| WEEK 7 | Rising Sun: From China to Pearl Harbor |
| WEEK 8 | Midway: Five Minutes That Turned an Ocean |
| WEEK 9 | The Hinge: Stalingrad and El Alamein |
| WEEK 10 | Kursk, and the Fall of Fascist Italy |
| WEEK 11 | The Island Road |
| WEEK 12 | The endgame, read together: Overlord and Bagration: The Vice Closes · Closing the Ring · The Downfall of Imperial Japan · The World the War Made |
The Cold War, 1945–1991 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | The World the War Left |
| WEEK 2 | Containment |
| WEEK 3 | Two Shocks of 1949 |
| WEEK 4 | Korea: The Cold War Turns Hot |
| WEEK 5 | Coexistence and Its Crises |
| WEEK 6 | Cuba: To the Brink |
| WEEK 7 | Vietnam |
| WEEK 8 | The Third World Front |
| WEEK 9 | Détente: The Triangle |
| WEEK 10 | The Second Cold War |
| WEEK 11 | Gorbachev and the Unraveling |
| WEEK 12 | The End — and the Arguments |
The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994 — a 12-week term
| WEEK 1 | How Thin the Empire Really Was |
| WEEK 2 | The First Doors |
| WEEK 3 | Ghana — The Model |
| WEEK 4 | Algeria — The Exception |
| WEEK 5 | The Year of Africa |
| WEEK 6 | The Congo Crisis |
| WEEK 7 | Building States from Colonies |
| WEEK 8 | The Portuguese Empire Falls Last |
| WEEK 9 | The Settler Redoubt |
| WEEK 10 | Apartheid’s Long Fall |
| WEEK 11 | The Four Years That Decided It |
| WEEK 12 | What Independence Achieved, and Could Not |
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