Sample Figures from Home School in the Woods! 5000 BC

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e hope you enjoy your complimentary set of sample images from Home School in the Woods! These 24 figures are brand new and totally unique from our timeline sets! They can accompany any study on the topics and were designed to accompany The Mystery of History Volume III. (**Those who have our Complete Collection of Timeline Figures on CD will only need these sampler pages to fulfill what they need to accompany MoH III. For pre-printed sets of all figures to accompany MoH III, please visit: www.brightideaspress.com or www.themysteryofhistory.com ) We have also provided for you these figures in both wall and notebook size. Don't forget to include them in projects and activities! There are many ways to make learning fun by including images of people and events to drive the lessons home. Make games, create Lap BooksTM, or use them in notebooking pages--the ideas are endless! A timeline figure provides an image with the information, offering the child a visual anchor to remember and better connect the person or event to others at its time.

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Cosimo de Medici

1389-1464 A.D. Known as “The Elder,” an Italian statesman, banker, and the first of his family to rule Florence. He was also a supporter of literature and the arts.

Ismail I

1486-1524 A.D. A Persian shah and founder of the Safavid dynasty, as well as a spiritual and military leader, who established a theocratic government of Shi’ite Islam.

Sir Thomas More

1478-1535 A.D. Humanist, author, statesman, and chancellor of England, his refusal to accept Henry VIII as head over the church of England led to his execution. He was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1935. His written works include Utopia (1516), illustrating life under an ideally perfect government.

Ivan the Great

1440-1505 A.D. Also known as Ivan III, the grand duke of Muscovy whose triumphs in battle with the Tartars paved the way for Russian unity.

Safavid Empire of Persia

1502-1736 A.D. Founded by Shah Ismail I, an Iranian dynasty that established Shi’ite Islam as its official state religion.

Titian

c. 1488-1576 A.D Italian-born Renaissance painter, Tiziano Vecellio, was best known as a master of the Venetian school. His innovative and robust use of color is evident in his works such as the altarpiece, The Assumption of the Virgin (1518).

© 2008 Amy Pak • Home School in the Woods • NEW FIGURES - 1

Empires of West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

c. 6th-16th centuries A.D. Three of West Africa’s ancient empires, whose wealth and power came from their supplies of salt and gold.

Raffaello Santi “Raphael” 1483-1520 A.D. 16th-century Italian painter and architect whose style reflected the High Renaissance. A great master of the period, he is best known for his religious works, frescos, and portraiture.

Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 A.D. Also known as Mary Stuart, the Catholic queen of Scotland during the Scottish Reformation. Her political and marital choices forced her to abdicate the throne to her son. After fleeing to England, Elizabeth I feared her as a Roman Catholic threat to the Protestant throne and had her imprisoned and executed for sedition.

Artists of the Northern Renaissance

15th-16th centuries A.D. Artists, primarily from Germany and the Netherlands, whose realistic style reflected exquisite detail and masterful technique, often focusing on religion. Masters included Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel, Albrecht Dürer, and Jerome Bosch, among others.

Suleiman I c. 1495-1566 A.D. Also known as “The Magnificent” and “The Lawgiver,” a Turkish Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520 to 1566) who not only enlarged his empire through military strategies, but also through the development of arts, law, and architecture.

Jeanne d’Albret 1528-1572 A.D. Queen of Navarre (1555-1572) and mother of King Henry IV of France. A staunch Protestant, she declared Calvinism the kingdom’s official religion.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Sir Francis Bacon

Michel de Montaigne

1533-1592 A.D. A French essayist whose 16th-century prose made the essay popular as a literary genre.

1561-1626 A.D. English essayist, philosopher, and statesman, best known for establishing inductive reasoning, referred to as “The Baconian Method” (or more simply, the scientific method).

René Descartes

Willem Janszoon

c. 1570-1630 A.D. Dutch navigator and explorer who is best known as the first recorded European to have made landfall on Australia in February 1606.

1596-1650 A.D. A French philosopher and mathematician, and regarded as the founder of modern rationalism, his works, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and Principles of Philosophy (1644), popularized the quote “I think, therefore I am.” He also became known as the father of analytic geometry due to his mathematical discoveries.

Miguel de Cervantes

1547-1616 A.D. Spanish novelist and poet whose creation of Don Quixote made its celebrated mark in the history of Spanish literature.

17th century A.D. A group of Scottish Presbyterians who signed the National Covenant (1638) pledging their belief that no king, only Jesus Christ, was head of the church. This act of resistance led to the Killing Times, a bloody period of torture and suffering of Covenanters in Scottish history.

John Amos Comenius

1592-1670 A.D. Moravian religious leader and educational reformer whose belief in Christian unity led to his development of “pansophy,” a humanistic belief of universal wisdom or knowledge. His educational writings include Didactica Magna (1657; The Great Didactic) and Janua Linguarum Reserata (1631; The Gate of Languages Unlocked).

Jacob Amman

Jews of the Renaissance & Reformation

16th-17th centuries A.D. Many Jews continued to suffer hardship, rejection, and persecution in Europe as well as other areas of the world, such as India, Russia, North Africa, Mexico, and South America. Some countries, however, allowed Jews to prosper in freedom, such as Morocco, the Netherlands, and Poland, to name a few.

The Scottish Covenanters

c. 1543-1616 A.D. Initially known as Matsudaira Takechiyo, Japanese shogun who aided in the unification of Japan. As the founder of the last shogunate of Japan, he established a stable government and foreign trade. However, his fear of the threat of Christianity led to brutal persecution and the closing of ports to international trade.

Triangular Slave Trade

Manchu Dynasty

1644-1912 A.D. Manchurian in origin, the last ruling dynasty of China whose influential power expanded China’s territories in Asia.

© 2008 Amy Pak • Home School in the Woods • NEW FIGURES - 2

15th-19th centuries A.D. The trade of slaves forcefully brought from Africa that impacted every continent bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Also known as the “Atlantic Slave Trade,” millions of Africans were traded for sugar, molasses, and other merchandise.

c. 1644-c. 1730 A.D. A Swiss Mennonite leader whose strict teachings led to excommunication of members, and eventually a controversial division in the church throughout Alsace, Switzerland, and Germany. This split led to his founding of the Amish religion.

Cosimo de Medici

1389-1464 A.D. Known as “The Elder,” an Italian statesman, banker, and the first of his family to rule Florence. He was also a supporter of literature and the arts.

Ismail I

1486-1524 A.D. A Persian shah and founder of the Safavid dynasty, as well as a spiritual and military leader, who established a theocratic government of Shi’ite Islam.

Sir Thomas More

1478-1535 A.D. Humanist, author, statesman, and chancellor of England, his refusal to accept Henry VIII as head over the church of England led to his execution. He was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1935. His written works include Utopia (1516), illustrating life under an ideally perfect government.

Ivan the Great

1440-1505 A.D. Also known as Ivan III, the grand duke of Muscovy whose triumphs in battle with the Tartars paved the way for Russian unity.

Safavid Empire of Persia

1502-1736 A.D. Founded by Shah Ismail I, an Iranian dynasty that established Shi’ite Islam as its official state religion.

Titian

c. 1488-1576 A.D Italian-born Renaissance painter, Tiziano Vecellio, was best known as a master of the Venetian school. His innovative and robust use of color is evident in his works such as the altarpiece, The Assumption of the Virgin (1518).

© 2008 Amy Pak • Home School in the Woods • NEW FIGURES - 1

Empires of West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

c. 6th-16th centuries A.D. Three of West Africa’s ancient empires, whose wealth and power came from their supplies of salt and gold.

Raffaello Santi “Raphael” 1483-1520 A.D. 16th-century Italian painter and architect whose style reflected the High Renaissance. A great master of the period, he is best known for his religious works, frescos, and portraiture.

Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 A.D. Also known as Mary Stuart, the Catholic queen of Scotland during the Scottish Reformation. Her political and marital choices forced her to abdicate the throne to her son. After fleeing to England, Elizabeth I feared her as a Roman Catholic threat to the Protestant throne and had her imprisoned and executed for sedition.

Artists of the Northern Renaissance

15th-16th centuries A.D. Artists, primarily from Germany and the Netherlands, whose realistic style reflected exquisite detail and masterful technique, often focusing on religion. Masters included Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel, Albrecht Dürer, and Jerome Bosch, among others.

Suleiman I c. 1495-1566 A.D. Also known as “The Magnificent” and “The Lawgiver,” a Turkish Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520 to 1566) who not only enlarged his empire through military strategies, but also through the development of arts, law, and architecture.

Jeanne d’Albret 1528-1572 A.D. Queen of Navarre (1555-1572) and mother of King Henry IV of France. A staunch Protestant, she declared Calvinism the kingdom’s official religion.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Sir Francis Bacon

Michel de Montaigne

1533-1592 A.D. A French essayist whose 16th-century prose made the essay popular as a literary genre.

1561-1626 A.D. English essayist, philosopher, and statesman, best known for establishing inductive reasoning, referred to as “The Baconian Method” (or more simply, the scientific method).

René Descartes

Willem Janszoon

c. 1570-1630 A.D. Dutch navigator and explorer who is best known as the first recorded European to have made landfall on Australia in February 1606.

1596-1650 A.D. A French philosopher and mathematician, and regarded as the founder of modern rationalism, his works, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and Principles of Philosophy (1644), popularized the quote “I think, therefore I am.” He also became known as the father of analytic geometry due to his mathematical discoveries.

Miguel de Cervantes

1547-1616 A.D. Spanish novelist and poet whose creation of Don Quixote made its celebrated mark in the history of Spanish literature.

John Amos Comenius

1592-1670 A.D. Moravian religious leader and educational reformer whose belief in Christian unity led to his development of “pansophy,” a humanistic belief of universal wisdom or knowledge. His educational writings include Didactica Magna (1657; The Great Didactic) and Janua Linguarum Reserata (1631; The Gate of Languages Unlocked).

Jacob Amman

Jews of the Renaissance & Reformation

16th-17th centuries A.D. Many Jews continued to suffer hardship, rejection, and persecution in Europe as well as other areas of the world, such as India, Russia, North Africa, Mexico, and South America. Some countries, however, allowed Jews to prosper in freedom, such as Morocco, the Netherlands, and Poland, to name a few.

The Scottish Covenanters

17th century A.D. A group of Scottish Presbyterians who signed the National Covenant (1638) pledging their belief that no king, only Jesus Christ, was head of the church. This act of resistance led to the Killing Times, a bloody period of torture and suffering of Covenanters in Scottish history.

c. 1543-1616 A.D. Initially known as Matsudaira Takechiyo, Japanese shogun who aided in the unification of Japan. As the founder of the last shogunate of Japan, he established a stable government and foreign trade. However, his fear of the threat of Christianity led to brutal persecution and the closing of ports to international trade.

Triangular Slave Trade

Manchu Dynasty

1644-1912 A.D. Manchurian in origin, the last ruling dynasty of China whose influential power expanded China’s territories in Asia.

© 2008 Amy Pak • Home School in the Woods • NEW FIGURES - 2

15th-19th centuries A.D. The trade of slaves forcefully brought from Africa that impacted every continent bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Also known as the “Atlantic Slave Trade,” millions of Africans were traded for sugar, molasses, and other merchandise.

c. 1644-c. 1730 A.D. A Swiss Mennonite leader whose strict teachings led to excommunication of members, and eventually a controversial division in the church throughout Alsace, Switzerland, and Germany. This split led to his founding of the Amish religion.