Years of The Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer

 Hi there!

This isn't our regularly scheduled programming.  I HAVE posted quite a few WINTER themed items for sale in my TPT Store: Meliora Homeschool Resources, if you are looking for things for Yule, Hanukkah, Christmas, or Kwanzaa for this month's holidays to share with your students.

So, onto the subject at hand!  I use Ambleside Online for some of our lessons/books throughout the year, so I've noticed they had a page that listed the approximate dates featured in each chapter of Story of the World, Vol 4: The Modern Age.

Please note:  I am NOT affiliated with either site, I just think they are wonderful resources for my family, and wish to share what I can for those that also use them.

So, without further ado, here are the approximate dates for each chapter of Story of the World, Volumes 1, 2, & 3.

Volume 1 — Ancient Times

Earliest Nomads → Fall of Rome
c. 6000 BCE – c. 400 CE

1.  Earliest People — c. 6000–3000 BCE
2.  Egyptians on the Nile — c. 3000 BCE
3.  First Writing (Sumer) — c. 3200 BCE
4.  Old Kingdom Egypt — c. 2700–2200 BCE
5.  Sargon of Akkad — c. 2300 BCE
6.  Jewish Patriarchs — c. 2000–1700 BCE
7.  Hammurabi — c. 1800 BCE
8.  Assyrian Expansion — c. 1400–900 BCE
9.  Indus Valley Civilization — c. 2500–1500 BCE
10.  Shang Dynasty China — c. 1600–1046 BCE
11.  Early Greeks — c. 2000–1100 BCE
12.  Middle Kingdom Egypt — c. 2000–1700 BCE
13.  New Kingdom Egypt — c. 1600–1100 BCE
14.  Exodus — c. 1300 BCE
15.  Phoenicians — c. 1200–800 BCE
16.  Neo-Assyrian Empire — c. 900–700 BCE
17.  Neo-Babylonians — c. 700–539 BCE
18.  Medes & Persians — c. 700–500 BCE
19.  Persian Wars — c. 500–479 BCE
20.  Golden Age of Athens — c. 480–430 BCE
21.  Peloponnesian War — c. 431–404 BCE
22.  Philip of Macedon — c. 359–336 BCE
23.  Alexander the Great — c. 336–323 BCE
24.  Hellenistic World — c. 323–200 BCE
25.  Early Rome — c. 753–509 BCE
26.  Roman Republic — c. 509–133 BCE
27.  Roman Conquests — c. 264–146 BCE
28.  Julius Caesar — c. 100–44 BCE
29.  Augustus & Empire — c. 27 BCE – 14 CE
30.  Pax Romana — c. 14–180 CE
31.  Birth of Christianity — c. 4 BCE – 33 CE
32.  Early Church — c. 30–300 CE
33.  Roman Emperors — c. 100–300 CE
34.  Division of Empire — c. 285 CE
35.  Constantine — c. 306–337 CE
36.  Barbarian Invasions — c. 300–400 CE
37.  Decline of Rome — c. 180–395 CE
38.  Fall of Western Rome — 476 CE
39.  Daily Life in Rome — c. 100–300 CE
40.  Ancient Africa — c. 1000 BCE – 400 CE
41.  Ancient Americas — c. 1500 BCE – 400 CE
42.  Review / World Connections — c. 400 CE

Volume 2 — The Middle Ages

Fall of Rome → Early Modern World

c. 400 – c. 1600

1.  Eastern Roman Empire — c. 400–600
2.  Justinian — c. 527–565
3.  Early Christianity — c. 400–700
4.  Rise of Islam — c. 610–750
5.  Islamic Civilization — c. 750–1000
6.  Tang China — c. 618–907
7.  Heian Japan — c. 794–1185
8.  The Vikings — c. 800–1100
9.  Charlemagne — c. 768–814
10.  Feudalism — c. 900–1200
11.  Holy Roman Empire — c. 962–1200
12.  Medieval Church — c. 900–1200
13.  Crusades Begin — 1095
14.  Later Crusades — c. 1100–1291
15.  Seljuk Turks — c. 1000–1200
16.  Byzantium After Crusades — c. 1200–1453
17.  Kingdoms of Africa — c. 500–1500
18.  Medieval India — c. 500–1500
19.  Song China — c. 960–1279
20.  Mongol Empire — c. 1206–1368
21.  Japan’s Shoguns — c. 1185–1333
22.  Rise of Russia — c. 900–1200
23.  England’s Kings — c. 1066–1300
24.  Magna Carta — 1215
25.  Medieval Life — c. 1200–1400
26.  Black Death — c. 1347–1351
27.  Hundred Years’ War — c. 1337–1453
28.  Ottoman Empire — c. 1300–1500
29.  Fall of Constantinople — 1453
30.  Renaissance Begins — c. 1300–1400
31.  Italian Renaissance — c. 1400–1500
32.  Northern Renaissance — c. 1450–1550
33.  Printing Press — c. 1450
34.  Spanish Reconquista — 1492
35.  Exploration Begins — c. 1400–1500
36.  Aztecs — c. 1300–1521
37.  Incas — c. 1200–1533
38.  Spanish Conquest — c. 1492–1550
39.  Reformation Begins — 1517
40.  Protestant Europe — c. 1500–1600
41.  Catholic Reforms — c. 1540–1600
42.  End of Middle Ages — c. 1600

Volume 3 — Early Modern Times

Reformation → Industrial Threshold

c. 1600 – c. 1850

1.  Scientific Revolution — c. 1500–1650
2.  Reformation Conflicts — c. 1500–1650
3.  Elizabethan England — 1558–1603
4.  Stuart Kings — c. 1603–1640
5.  English Civil War — c. 1642–1651
6.  Cromwell & Restoration — c. 1650–1660
7.  Louis XIV — c. 1643–1715
8.  Absolute Monarchs — c. 1600–1700
9.  Dutch Golden Age — c. 1600–1700
10.  Enlightenment Thinkers — c. 1700–1750
11.  Russia Under Peter — c. 1682–1725
12.  Great Northern War — c. 1700–1721
13.  Rise of Prussia — c. 1700–1786
14.  Colonial America — c. 1600–1750
15.  Slave Trade — c. 1600–1800
16.  French & Indian War — c. 1754–1763
17.  American Revolution — c. 1765–1783
18.  U.S. Constitution — 1787
19.  French Revolution — c. 1789–1799
20.  Reign of Terror — 1793–1794
21.  Napoleon — c. 1799–1815
22.  Congress of Vienna — 1815
23.  Latin American Revolutions — c. 1800–1830
24.  Britain’s Empire — c. 1700–1850
25.  Industrial Revolution — c. 1750–1850
26.  Factory Life — c. 1800–1850
27.  Romanticism — c. 1800–1850
28.  Nationalism — c. 1800–1850
29.  China’s Qing Dynasty — c. 1644–1850
30.  Opium Wars — c. 1839–1842
31.  Tokugawa Japan — c. 1600–1853
32.  Japan Opens — 1853
33.  Africa Before Colonization — c. 1600–1800
34.  Missionaries & Trade — c. 1700–1800
35.  Abolition Movements — c. 1750–1850
36.  American Expansion — c. 1800–1850
37.  War of 1812 — 1812–1815
38.  Reform Movements — c. 1820–1850
39.  Early Women’s Rights — c. 1800–1850
40.  Science & Medicine — c. 1800–1850
41.  Global Connections — c. 1600–1850
42.  World on the Brink of Change — c. 1850

Hopefully, this helps someone as much as it's helped me plan expanded lessons with each chapter.

Thanks for reading,