About Year 1

Tapestry Year 1 covers the history of the world from the Creation to the Fall of Rome in 450 AD. Children pay special attention to the origin and nature of human civilizations, especially the great civilizations that form the foundations of our modern world.

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Tapestry of Grace is the award-winning homeschool curriculum that uses the history of the world to guide your whole family through an amazing humanities education. New to Tapestry? Click here for an introduction!

Contents

Unit 1: The Books of Moses

1. Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile
2. Pharaohs and Pyramids
3. Egyptian Polytheism and the Judgment of God
4. Creation Through Noah
5. Babel to Ur: Early History of Mesopotamia
6. The Patriarchs: From Ur to Egypt
7. In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle and the Law
8. In The Wilderness: Holiness: Worshipping God as God
9. In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors

Unit 2: All Governments Are Established by God

10. The Indus Valley, Hinduism, and Buddhism
11. Ancient China: Confucius and Taoism
12. Ancient Americas: Inuit, Mound Builders, and Mayas
13. Early Greeks: Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, and Trojan Cultures
14. Early Greeks: Everyday Life, Religion, and Mythology
15. The Promised Land: Conquest and Settlement
16. Judges, Samuel, and Minor Neighboring Cultures
17. The Rise of Saul and the Philistines
18. David, Shepherd of Israel; the Phoenicians

Unit 3: Preparing the World for Its Savior

19. Solomon's Divided Heart
20. The Divided Kingdom
21. The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported
22. The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity
23. The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home
24. Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars, Athens, and Sparta
25. The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian War
26. Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy
27. Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation

Unit 4: In the Fullness of Time

28. The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome
29. The Roman Republic: Everyday Life
30. The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars
31. From Republic to Empire
32. Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement
33. The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church
34. Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church
35. Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies
36. Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils

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From Creation to the Fall of Rome