World History, 3rd Edition
Lesson Plan Overview
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
Support Materials
Chapter 1: Foundations of World History
1–3
The Study of
3–12
Activity 1: Making
World History
Proper Use of
Historical Sources
4–6
The Beginnings
of World History
7
Chapter 1 Review
8
Chapter 1 Test
12–26
Chapter 2: Early Civilizations
9
Mesopotamia
29–33
10–11
Egypt
34–39
Activity 2: Sin and
Civilization
Activity 3: Foundations
for the Study of History
CD material
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
CD material
Bible Integration
Humanity’s Purpose
Value of Studying History
Avoiding Cultural Amnesia
Learning to Worship Through History
Written Records and Early History
Living by Faith
A Historian’s Philosophy of Life
Studying History with a Christian
Worldview
What Was God Doing?
Making Moral Judgments in History
Divine Providence and the Life of
Joseph
Where Is this World Headed?
Reckoning with Redemption
Biblical Teaching and Understanding
Causes
Making a Difference
Section Quiz #1, #5–8
Creation; The Fall; Moral Decay and
Judgment; A Second Beginning
Prehistoric Peoples
Vocations and Civilization
The Arts and Genesis 1:28
Activity 2: Sin and Civilization
Protoevangelium
Gen. 3:15 as the Thesis for Human
History
Lessons from Genesis 4–6
The Problem of Babel
Curse on Ham
Activity 3: Foundations for the Study of
History
Section Quiz #1–8
How Much Do You Remember? #3–9,
What Do You Think? #3–5
Sumerians and Polytheism
Ur of the Chaldees
Epic of Gilgamesh and the Universal
Flood
Flood Accounts
God’s Law and Hammurabi’s Law
Through Eyes of Faith
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
God Judged the Egyptians
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
Support Materials
12
Land of Canaan
39–45
CD material
13
Near Eastern
Empires
46–52
CD material
Activity 2: Spread of
Civilization
Activity 3: Word Origins
Activity 4: Ancient Near
East Map Study
Activity 5: Israel’s Walk
Through the Nations
14
15
Chapter 2 Review
Chapter 2 Test
Chapter 3: The Greek Civilization
16
The Early Greek
55–58
World
17
Greek CityStates
59–61
18
The Fateful
Century
62–65
19
Alexander’s
Empire
65–67
20
Greek Culture
67–74
21
22
Chapter 3 Review
Chapter 3 Test
Chapter 4: The Roman Republic
23
Beginning of
77–79
Roman
Civilization
24
The Early Roman 80–83
Republic
25
The
Mediterranean—
A Roman Sea
83–87
Bible Integration
The Hittites
Merchants of the Mediterranean
The City of Tyre
Tyre’s Sins
The Hebrews
Egyptian Plagues
Section Quiz #6, #7
Assyrian Accounts
Assyrian Empire
Chaldean Empire
Through Eyes of Faith
Cyrus and the Nation of Israel
Activity 5: Israel’s Walk Through the
Nations
Section Quiz #2–4
A Glance Behind…
What Do You Think? #1–5
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Activity 2: Odyssey
Excerpts
CD material
Activity 3: Types of
Government
CD material
Activity 4: Facts to
Remember
CD material
Activity 5: Map Study:
Ancient Greece
CD material
Through Eyes of Faith
Religious Differences
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Christian Armor
Through Eyes of Faith
Importance of Written Law
Activity 2: Roman vs.
American Republic
CD material
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Daniel’s Prophecy of a Divided Empire
Focus on Man
Was Plato a Christian?
Bible Study: Acts 17:16–34
Apostle Paul and Greek Literature
What Do You Think? #3
Rights and Privileges
Day(s)
Topic
26
Decline into a
Dictatorship
27
28
Chapter 4 Review
Chapter 4 Test
Pages
88–94
Support Materials
CD material
Activity 3: Lessons from
History
Activity 4: Map Study:
The Roman Republic
What Do You Think? #1, #2
Chapter 5: The Roman Empire
Pax Romana
29
97–99
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
CD material
Activity 2: The Bedrock
of Western Civilization
30
Roman Culture
and
Achievement
100–109
31
The Introduction
of Christianity
109–18
Activity 3: Josephus
Discusses Masada
Activity 4: Map Study:
The Roman Empire
CD material
32
Collapse of the
Roman Empire
118–22
CD material
Activity 5: Beginning of
Church History
33
34
Chapter 5 Review
Chapter 5 Test
Chapter 6: The Byzantine and Islamic Empires
35
The Byzantine
127–33
Activity 1: Questions
Civilization
and Timeline
CD material
36
Early Russia
134–36
CD material
37–38
39
40
The Islamic
Civilization
Bible Integration
Publicans
136–44
Activity 2: Defend Your
Faith: The Koran vs.
the Bible
Activity 3: Map Study:
The Byzantine and
Islamic Empires
CD material
Chapter 6 Review
Chapter 6 Test
Chapter 7: The Civilizations of Asia and Africa
Jesus of Nazareth
Augustus’s Moral Reforms
Comparisons
Through Eyes of Faith
No Shame
Pompeii and the Brevity of Life
If It Feels Good
The World Made Ready
The Turning Point of History
The Spread of the Gospel
Through Eyes of Faith
Paul’s Missionary Journeys
Persecution of the Church
Through Eyes of Faith
Extrabiblical
Section Quiz #2, #3
Regaining Virtue
Through Eyes of Faith
Augustine of Hippo
A Glance Behind…
What Do You Think? #1, #4, #5
Growth of Christ’s Kingdom
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
Looking to a Man
Section Quiz #4
The Descendants of Ishmael
Activity 2
A Witness
Muhammad and the God of the Bible
Jesus Christ and Critical Contradictions
Through Eyes of Faith
Muslim Libraries and the Providence of
God
What Do You Think? #1-3
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
Support Materials
41
India
147–52
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
CD material
42
China
153–61
CD material
43
44
Japan
Comparison of
the Asian
Civilizations
The Mongol
Empire
161–64
164–65
CD material
Activity 2: Far Eastern
Religions
165–69
46
Africa
169–74
CD material
Activity 3: Contrasts in
Asia
Activity 4: Map Study:
Civilizations of Asia
CD material
Activity 5: Map Study:
Early Africa
47
48
Chapter 7 Review
Chapter 7 Test
45
50
A New Western
Empire
185–91
51
The Feudal
System
The Manor
Chapter 8 Review
Chapter 8 Test
192–95
195–98
A European
Empire
King of Ethiopia
Frumentius, ‘Apostle to the Abyssinians’
Activity 3: Map Study:
Charlemagne’s Empire
CD material
The Words “Church” and “Universal
Church”
Saints
The Petrine Theory
The Seven Sacraments and Salvation
Through Eyes of Faith
Activity 2: Roman Catholic Religion vs.
the Bible
Making Vows
Matt 7:21–23 and outward conversions
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
Relationships
CD material
What Do You Think? #1–4
Chapter 9: Princes and Popes
55
Reforms in the
201–6
Church
56
Japanese and Individuality
False Religion
Activity 2: Far Eastern Religions
To Teach About Christ
What Do You Think? #1
Chapter 8: The Making of Medieval Europe
49
Growth of the
179–85
Activity 1: Questions
Medieval Church
and Timeline
Activity 2: Roman
Catholic Religion vs.
The Bible
52
53
54
Bible Integration
Leaving and Cleaving
Through Eyes of Faith
What Is Truth?
Reincarnation
Eternal Peace and the Bible
Chinese Characters
Major Defect in Confucius’s Teaching
207–10
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
CD material
Unscrupulous Men
Church-State Relations
Through Eyes of Faith
Church Discipline
Through Eyes of Faith
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
57
Rise of Feudal
Monarchs
210–18
58
Rescue of the
Holy Land
219–24
59
60
Chapter 9 Review
Chapter 9 Test
Support Materials
CD material
Activity 2: Solving the
Problems of
Government
Activity 3: The Shifting
Power of the Feudal
Monarchs
CD material
Activity 4: Modified
True/False
Activity 5: Map Study:
Europe in the Middle
Ages
64
Emergence of
National States
65
Decline of the
248–50
Roman Church
Chapter 10 Review
Chapter 10 Test
243–47
Activity 3: Map Study:
Europe about 1500
CD material
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Chapter 11: The Renaissance
68
Characteristics of 255–57
the Renaissance
69
Course of the
Renaissance
70
Consequences of 273–74
the Renaissance
Chapter 11 Review
Chapter 11 Test
71
72
Chapter 12: The Reformation
Drawing Near – Hebrews 10:22
Christian Views of War
Lessons for the Christian Church
What Do You Think? #2, #4
Chapter 10: The Reshaping of Medieval Europe
61
Revival of Trade
227–30
CD material
62
Growth of Towns 231–35
Activity 1: Business and
Labor Relations in the
Bible
63
Medieval
236–43
Activity 2: Questions
Learning and Art
and Timeline
66
67
Bible Integration
Multitude of Counselors
257–73
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Activity 2: Machiavelli’s
The Prince
Activity 3: Art
Appreciation
CD material
Activity 4: Middle Ages
vs. the Renaissance
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
Scholastics as Preparatory for the
Reformation’s Coming
Anselm
Leading to Error
Medieval Hymns
The Waldensians
Through Eyes of Faith
Focus on Man
Humanism
Renaissance Man
God-given Talents
Through Eyes of Faith
Good Manners
Erasmus’s Views
Work Ethic
Savonarola: Preacher of Righteousness
A Glance Behind…
What Do You Think? #1
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
73
Forerunners
277–79
74
Beginning
280–85
75
76
Spread
The Counter
Reformation
285–97
298–300
77
78
Chapter 12 Review
Chapter 12 Test
Chapter 13: Exploration and Discovery
79
Preparation for
303–6
Discovery
80–81
Process of
306–21
Discovery
82
83
84
Support Materials
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
CD material
Activity 2: Rise of
Liberty and the
Modern Secular State
Activity 3: Map Study:
The Protestant
Reformation
CD material
What Do You Think? #1–3
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
CD material
Activity 2: Map Study:
Early Explorers
Activity 3: Unsolved
Mysteries: The
Voyages of John
Cabot
Activity 4: The
Explorers
Parallel to
321–24
Discovery: The
Commercial
Revolution
Chapter 13 Review
Chapter 13 Test
Chapter 14: Pursuit of Power
85–87
Power of Kings:
357–74
Absolute or
Restrained
Bible Integration
Wycliffe’s Teaching on the Bible
The Sole Authority
Luther’s Spiritual Awakening
Luther’s Cry
God’s Preparation
Charge of Heresy
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
Motives for Exploration
To the Sea
Through Eyes of Faith
Conquistadors and Matthew 6:24
Cortés and his Lust for Treasure
Through Eyes of Faith
Ecclesiastes 5:13 and Hoarding
What Do You Think? #2
CD material
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Activity 2: Milton “On
His Blindness”
Romans 13:1–4 and Power
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
The Wickedness of Versailles
Through Eyes of Faith
Solomon’s Advice to Kings
Milton’s and Bunyan’s Writings
Activity 2: Milton “On His Blindness”
Day(s)
Topic
88
Balance of Power
89
90
Chapter 14 Review
Chapter 14 Test
Chapter 15: Age of Reason
91
Scientific
Discoveries
Pages
374–78
381–86
CD material
Activity 1: Scientists in
the Age of Reason
Activity 2: Defining the
Terms of the Age of
Reason
Activity 3 (Part B):
Francis Bacon
Activity 3 (Part A):
Reading Activity:
Benjamin Franklin
CD material
Activity 4: What God
Says About Human
Reason
Intellectual
Attitudes
386–91
93
Spiritual
Awakening
391–96
94
Artistic Reflection
397–404
95
96
Chapter 15 Review
Chapter 15 Test
Chapter 16: Attempts at Liberty
97
American
407–13
Struggle to
Preserve Liberty
98–99
French
413–23
Destruction of
the Old Regime
102
103
The Napoleonic
Era
Chapter 16 Review
Chapter 16 Test
Bible Integration
What Do You Think? #3
92
100–101
Support Materials
CD material
Activity 3: Map Skills:
Europe in 1763
Activity 4: Religious
Wars and Secular
Wars
Activity 5: Changing
Fortunes of Europe’s
Disputed Provinces
424–30
CD material
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
CD material
Activity 2: The
Execution of Louis
XVI, 1793
Activity 3: Two
Attempts at Liberty
Activity 4:
Comparison/Contrast
CD material
Activity 5: Map Skills:
Napoleon’s Empire
Activity 6: Trivia Game:
The Life and Times of
Napoleon
Jeremiah 9:23, 24 and Reason
Qualities of a Scientist Who Is a
Christian
Scientists Who Were Christians
Through Eyes of Faith
The Bible and Spinoza
Religion of the Enlightenment
Through Eyes of Faith
Spiritual Awakening
Through Eyes of Faith
Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley
To the Glory of God
A Glimpse Behind…
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
Napoleon: A Study in Pride?
Qualities of a Good Leader
This Moment in History
A Glimpse Behind
What Do You Think? #2, #3
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
Chapter 17: Reaction and Revolution
104–105 Search for
435–45
Stability
106
Triumph of
Nationalism
107
Protest of
452–60
Romanticism
Chapter 17 Review
Chapter 17 Test
108
109
445–52
Support Materials
CD material
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Activity 2: Map Skills:
Europe After the
Congress of Vienna,
1815
CD material
Activity 3: Reading
Activity: “The Charge
of the Light Brigade”
Activity 4: Digging
Deeper: The North
American Policy of
Napoleon III
Activity 5: People and
Their Contributions
Responses to the
Industrial
Revolution
472–81
Activity 1: Marx’s
Communist Manifesto
114
Changing
Outlooks in
European
Society
481–88
Activity 2: Darwin’s
Origin of Species
Activity 3: What God
Says About Reform
115
116
Chapter 18 Review
Chapter 18 Test
Chapter 19: Europe Expands Overseas
117–118 Extension of
491–500
European
Culture
Attempts to ‘Outlaw’ War
God-ordained Civic Responsibilities
Through Eyes of Faith
James 4:1 and the Source of Conflict
What Do You Think? #5
Chapter 18: Industrial Revolution and European Society
110–111 The Industrial
463–72
CD material
Revolution
112–113
Bible Integration
CD material
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Activity 2: Map Skills:
Imperialism Before the
Great War
Righteousness Exalts a Nation
Through Eyes of Faith
Evaluation of Industrialism
Through Eyes of Faith
William Wilberforce: ‘No Common
Christian’
Man’s Responsibility to God and
Society
Concern of Christians
Spurgeon: ‘The Prince of Preachers’
Darwin Contradicts the Bible
Through Eyes of Faith
Impact of Science on Society
Challenges to Christianity
Activity 2: Darwin’s Origin of Species
Activity 3: What God Says About
Reform
Section Quiz #4
What Do You Think? #3, #4
Opportunity for Missionary Outreach
Factors of Rapid Growth
Revival During the Civil War
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
Support Materials
Bible Integration
119–120
Extension of
European Power
500–514
CD material
Activity 3: Impact of
Imperialism in Asia
and Africa
Activity 4: The Crosscultural Ministry of
Hudson Taylor
Activity 5: Missionaries
in the Age of
Imperialism
Activity 6: Evaluating
Imperialism
Reasons for Imperialism #4
Imperialism: Not the Monster That Many
Portray
William Carey in India
J. Hudson Taylor in China
Through Eyes of Faith
The Boxer Rebellion
David Livingstone and Mary Slessor in
Africa
Through Eyes of Faith
Positive Results
Activity 6: Evaluating Imperialism
McKinley on Imperialism
How Much Do You Remember? #3, #5;
What Do You Think? #3
Chapter 20: The Great War
123
Promise and
Peril
519–23
The Real Source of Tensions
Andrew Carnegie
124–125
The Pressing
Conflict
523–34
126
The Pursuit of
Peace
535–42
CD material
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Activity 2: Map Skills
(Part 1): Europe in
World War I
CD material
Activity 3: Memoirs of a
U-Boat Commander
Activity 4: The
Zimmermann
Telegram
CD material
Activity 2: Map Skills
(Part 2): Europe After
World War I
Activity 5: Can You
Identify These
People?
127
128
Chapter 20 Review
Chapter 20 Test
121
Chapter 19 Review
122
Chapter 19 Test
Chapter 21: Discontent and Experimentation
129
Weakness Within 545–49
Activity 1: Questions
the Democracies
and Timeline
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
A Glance Behind…
What Do You Think? #6
Qualifications for Leaders
Day(s)
130–132
Topic
Pages
Rise of
Totalitarian
Dictatorships
549–63
133
Era of
Disillusionment
563–66
134
135
Chapter 21 Review
Chapter 21 Test
Bible Integration
Through Eyes of Faith
Peter Vins: ‘Choosing Rather to Suffer
Affliction’
Through Eyes of Faith
Through Eyes of Faith
A Glance Behind…
What Do You Think? #1
Chapter 22: The Second World War
136–137 Global Tension
569–75
138–140
Support Materials
Activity 2: Comparing
and Contrasting
Totalitarian States
Activity 3: Gestapo
Orders for
Kristallnacht
Activity 4: Mein Kampf
Activity 5: Map Skills:
The Rise of
Dictatorships in
Europe
CD material
Activity 6: Can You
Identify These
People?
Activity 7: Review
Questions
Global Conflict
576–96
141
Efforts for World
Peace
596–98
142
143
Chapter 22 Review
Chapter 22 Test
Chapter 23: The Cold War Era
144–145 Postwar
601–8
Confrontation
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Activity 2: Map Skills:
(1) German and Italian
Expansion
Activity 2: Map Skills:
(2) European Theater
of Operations
Activity 2: Map Skills:
(3) Pacific Theater of
Operations
Activity 3: Firsthand
Accounts of World
War II
Activity 4: The
Language of World
War II
CD material
Activity 5: Can You
Identify These
People?
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
Activity 2: Map Skills
(part 1): Cold War
Europe
CD material
Through Eyes of Faith
Day(s)
Topic
Pages
146–147
Spread of
Communism
608–14
148–149
Showdown
Between the
Superpowers
615–22
150–151
Aftermath of the
Cold War
622–32
152
153
156
157–158
159–161
162
163
Bible Integration
Through Eyes of Faith
Activity 1: Questions
and Timeline
CD material
The Ecumenical Movement
Through Eyes of Faith
Chapter 23 Review
Chapter 23 Test
Chapter 24: To the Present
154
Attempts at Unity
155
Support Materials
CD material
Activity 2: Map Skills
(part 2): Vietnam War
CD material
Activity 3: Communist
Persecution of
Individuals
CD material
Activity 4: Can You
Identify These
People?
Activity 5: Chapter
Review
635–40
Advanced
Democracies
Post-Communist
Countries
640–44
Developing
Nations
The Middle East
647–55
Chapter 24 Review
Chapter 24 Test
644–46
655–64
Activity 2: Map Skills
(part 1): Europe After
the Fall of
Communism
CD material
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Activity 2: Map Skills
(part 2): The Middle
East
Activity 3: The War on
Terror
Activity 4: The Place of
the United States in
the World Today
Activity 5: Can You
Identify These
People?
CD material
Through Eyes of Faith
Christianity – Always Multicultural!
A Glance Behind…
What Do You Think? #1