This is by no means a history curriculum.  But it will go far in introducing historical topics and events, often in chronological order.  Later, when you cover these events in depth as part of any history program you choose, your children will have a level of familiarity with them.

Much of the travel imbedded in the curriculum’s itinerary is along the following historical routes:

• Joseph, Mary, and Jesus’ flight to Egypt
• The Spice Route
• The Silk Road
• Global sailing routes
• Christopher Columbus’ first trip to the “New World”
• Henry Hudson’s explorations
• The Triangular Trade routes
• Magellan’s travels
• The Pilgrims’ trip across the Atlantic
• The Underground Railroad
• Lewis & Clark’s expedition
• The Trail of Tears
• David Livingstone’s travels in Africa
• Mary Kingsley’s travels in Africa
• Beduin wanderings
• Ukrainian immigration to North America
• The Pan-American Highway

Additional historical events and topics referenced in the literature include the following (in no particular order):

• 2nd Sudanese Civil War
• The Green Revolution
• Vietnam War
• Hmong refugees
• Apollo 11
• The establishment of New Amsterdam
• Britain’s Wagonway (a predecessor to the railroad)
• The Revolutionary War
• European and American slave trade
• The Oregon Trail
• Indian resettlement
• The Irish Famine of 1830
• The Gold Rush
• The Civil War
• Abolition of slavery
• The Wright Flyer
• Ford’s Model T
• World War I
• Famous early aviators
• World War II
• Famine and genocide in Europe
• The Holocaust
• Rosa Parks (the Civil Rights Movement)
• Ruby Bridges (school de-segregation)
• The Great Migration
• Richard Wurmbrand