Below is a quick snapshot of what students learned in the first 3 months at Mirus:

 

• Time lines (Before Christ and Anno Domini, including how to read events sequentially in B.C. and A.D.)

• Geography of Ancient Egypt, the Nile, the Nile Delta, Upper and Lower Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Akkadian Empire, Jericho, Ur, Kish.

• Nomads, King Narmer/Menes unified Egypt in 3200 B.C., the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, mummification, the pyramids, hieroglyphics, the tale of Osiris and Set, the gods Re (Ra), Osiris, Horus, Anubis and their roles in Egyptian religion.

• King Sargon unifying Mesopotamia in 2334 B.C., cuneiform, military dictator, the Gilgamesh epic

• Memorized Israelite patriarchs:   Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher Isaachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.

• Ur, Jericho, Haran, Canaan, Dead Sea, Jordan River

• Babyon/Babylonia, Hammurabi, Code of Hammurabi, 1792 B.C., stele, Gate of Ishtar, ziggarauts, Ziggaraut of Ur

• Assyria, Assur, Shamshi - Adad and his cruel reign 

• Hittites, 1400-1200 B.C.,Hatti, Hattusas, Asia Minor, iron smelting, chariots, "people of a thousand gods" etc.

• Phonecians, 1100 B.C., Tyre, Sidon, Carthage, purple dye, boats, alphabet

• India, 2000 B.C., Harrapan Civilization, Indus River, Himalayan Mountains, Mohenjo-Daro

• China, Huang Di, discovery of silk, Yellow River, Yangtze River,

• Ancient Africa, Sahara Desert, Whale Valley, Anansi Tales

• Middle and New Kingdoms of Egypt - Ahmose, Amenemhet 1991 B.C., Sisostris, Nubians, Hyksos, Thutmose I 1524 B.C., Hatshepsut, King Tut, Ramses II, Battle of Kadesh.

• Exodus of Israel, 1440 B.C., the Egyptian gods each of the 10 plagues addressed.

 

        After this, they went on to learn about The Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Exiles of Israel and Judah, the Persians, The Iliad, Crete and the Minoans, the founding of Greece, and the Greco-Persian War.