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History of the Early Islamic World for Kids: Caliphate

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Kids and students learn about the Caliphate of the Islamic Empire including when it begn, the First Four Caliphs, Umayyads, Abbasids, Ottomans, Shia and Sunni division, and interesting facts.

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Kids learn about the Ottoman Empire including a timeline, the capture of Constantinople, and leaders such as Suleiman, Osman, and Mehmet II.

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History of the Early Islamic World for Kids: Important Cities

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Kids and students learn about important cities during the early Islamic Empire including Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, Constantinople, Cordoba, and fun facts.

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History of the Early Islamic World for Kids: Scientists and Scholars

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Kids and students learn about famous scientists and scholars during the Islamic Empire including Al-Haytham, Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Sina, and Omay Khayyam.

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Kids and students learn about the biography of world traveler Ibn Battuta of the Islamic Empire including his early life, the Rihla, his travels, and fun facts.

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History of the Early Islamic World for Kids: Daily Life

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Kids learn about the Norman Conquest from the Middle Ages and Medieval times when William of Normandy conquered England.

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Middle Ages for Kids: Entertainment and Games

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Kids learn about entertainment in the Middle Ages and Medieval times including feasts, games, sports, festivals, music, and troubadours.

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Kids learn about the Kievan Rus from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. An Eastern European empire that was the start of the Russian culture.

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Kids learn about daily life in the Middle Ages and Medieval times including food, clothing, school, housing, city life, and country life.

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Middle Ages for Kids: Reconquista and Islam in Spain

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Kids learn about the Reconquista and Islam in Spain during the Middle Ages and Medieval times when the Christians fought the Moors for the Iberian Peninsula and Spain.

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Kids learn about guilds during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Craftsmen and merchants from apprentice to journeyman to master.

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Middle Ages for Kids: King John and the Magna Carta

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Kids learn about King John and the Magna Carta from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. How this historical document set the stage for democracy in the west.

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Learn about the feudal system during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Feudalism with lords and manors, serfs and peasants.

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Kids learn about the Hundred Years War from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. A series of battles fought between the English and the French.

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Kids learn about the Crusades during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Holy wars between the Christians and the Muslims over Jerusalem.

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Kids learn about the Black Death during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Plague that killed many in Europe and throughout the world.

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Kids learn about the Anglo-Saxons during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. The origins of the English people and monarchy.

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Kids learn about the Franks from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. These people settled France and Germany and ruled much of Western Europe.

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Kids learn about the Byzantine Empire during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Eastern Roman Empire ruled for over 1000 years.

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History: Middle Ages Monasteries for Kids

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Kids learn about monasteries during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Orders of religion and vows.

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Kids learn about the kings and thier court from the Middle Ages and Medieval times including coronations, queens, taxes, laws, and wars.

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Middle Ages for Kids: Catholic Church and Cathedrals

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Kids learn about the Catholic Church and Cathedrals during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. The pope and his bishops were powerful and wealthy men.

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Middle Ages for Kids: Art and Literature

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Kids learn about art and literature during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Paintings, frescos, and manuscripts.

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Middle Ages for Kids: Tournaments, Jousts, and the Code of Chivalry

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Kids learn about tournaments, jousts, and the Knight's Code of Chivalry during the Middle Ages and Medieval times.

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Kids learn about the Vikings during the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Scandanavian raiders on long boat and ships from Denmark and Sweden.

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Kids learn about castles built durint the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Protection and defense, features and architecture.

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Biographies for Kids: William the Conqueror

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Kids learn about the biography of William the Conqueror from the Middle Ages. The Norman who became king of England.

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Biographies for Kids: Saint Francis of Assisi

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Kids learn about the biography of Saint Francis of Assisi from the Middle Ages. Catholic friar who took an oath of poverty.

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Kids learn about the explorer Marco Polo. His journeys to China to meet emperor Kublai Khan.

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Kids learn about the biography of Justinian I from the Middle Ages. Emperor of the Byzantine Empire and established the Justinian Code.

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Biography

Occupation: Military Leader

Born: 1412 in Domremy, France

Died: May 30, 1431 Rouen, France

Best known for: Leading the French against the English in the Hundred Years War at a young age

Biography:
Where did Joan of Arc grow up?

Joan of Arc grew up in a small town in France. Her father, Jacques, was a farmer who also worked as an official for the town. Joan worked on the farm and learned how to sew from her mother, Isabelle. Joan was also very religious.

Visions from God

When Joan was around twelve years old she had a vision. She saw Michael the Archangel. He told her that she was to lead the French in a battle against the English. After she drove the English out she was to take the king to be crowned at Rheims.

Joan continued to have visions and hear voices over the next several years. She said they were beautiful and wonderful visions from God. When Joan turned sixteen she decided it was time to listen to her visions and take action.

Journey to King Charles VII

Joan was just a peasant farm girl. How was she going get an army to defeat the English? She decided she would ask King Charles of France for an army. She first went to the local town and asked the commander of the garrison, Count Baudricourt, to take her to see the king. He just laughed at her. However, Joan did not give up. She continued to ask for his help and gained the support of some local leaders. Soon he agreed to provide her with an escort to the royal court in the city of Chinon.

Joan met with the king. At first the king was suspicious. Should he put this young girl in charge of his army? Was she a messenger from God or was she just crazy? Eventually, the king figured he had nothing to lose. He let Joan accompany a convoy of soldiers and supplies to the city of Orleans that was under siege from the English Army.

While Joan waited on the king, she practiced for battle. She became a proficient fighter and an expert horse rider. She was ready when the king said she could fight.

Siege of Orleans

News of Joan's visions from God reached Orleans before she did. The French people began to hope that God was going to save them from the English. When Joan arrived the people greeted her with cheering and celebrations.

Joan had to wait for the rest of the French army to arrive. Once they were there, she launched an attack against the English. Joan led the attack and during one of the battles was wounded by an arrow. Joan didn't stop fighting. She stayed with the troops inspiring them to fight even harder. Eventually Joan and the French Army repelled the English troops and caused them to retreat from Orleans. She had won a great victory and saved the French from the English.

King Charles is Crowned

After winning the Battle of Orleans, Joan had only achieved part of what the visions had told her to do. She also needed to lead Charles to the city of Rheims to be crowned king. Joan and her army cleared the way to Rheims, gaining followers as she went. Soon they had made it to Rheims and Charles was crowned King of France.

Captured

Joan heard that the city of Compiegne was under attack by the Burgundians. She took a small force to help defend the city. With her force under attack outside the city, the drawbridge was raised and she was trapped. Joan was captured and later sold to the English.

Trial and Death

The English held Joan as prisoner and gave her a trial to prove that she was a religious heretic. They questioned her over the course of several days trying to find something that she had done that deserved death. They couldn't find anything wrong with her except that she had dressed as a man. They said that was enough to deserve death and announced her guilty.

Joan was burned alive at the stake. She asked for a cross before she died and an English soldier gave her a small wooden cross. Witnesses said she forgave her accusers and asked them to pray for her. She was only nineteen years old when she died.

Interesting Facts about Joan of Arc

When King Charles first met Joan he dressed as a courtier to try and fool Joan. Joan, however, immediately approached the king and bowed to him.

When Joan traveled she cut her hair and dressed to look like a man.

King Charles of France, who Joan had helped to reclaim his throne, did nothing to help her once she was captured by the English.

In 1920, Joan of Arc was proclaimed a Saint of the Catholic Church.

Her nickname was "The Maid of Orleans".

It is said that Joan knew she would be wounded in the Battle of Orleans. She also predicted that something bad would happen at the city of Compiegne where she was captured.

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Biography Occupation: Military Leader Born: 1412 in Domremy, France Died: May 30, 1431 Rouen, France Best known for: Leading the French against the English in the Hundred Years War at a young age Biography: Where did Joan of Arc grow up? Joan of Arc grew up in a small town in France.

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Kids learn about the biography of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire who conquered China and much of Asia.

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Kids learn about Charlemagne's biography. King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor during the Middle Ages.

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Kids learn about the biography of Alfred the Great from the Middle Ages. King of Wessex and the Anglo-Saxons. First King of England.