SOTW3 Chapters 14 and 17 + Field Trips = Thanksgiving Fun

SOTW3Chapter 14, begins on page 135

The Rise of Prussia

Frederick, the First Prussian King

Haaren - Frederick the Great

SyngAofE:  The Boyhood of Frederick the Great

John Finnemore. Germany (Kindle Location 765). Heritage History. I got to read this whole book, while the kids read bits and pieces.  I enjoyed standing in the Heidelberg Castle infamous during the Thirty Years War and understanding what it meant to be a red-head, farm-girl from Iowa wandering up the Rhine River near The Black Forest.

Haaren - Sobieski

Guerber Story of the Thirteen Colonies:  New England,

Ch. XLV, Charter Oak, Germany, 1679-1718, 1701, Salem,

Ch. XLVI, Salem Witches, 1692

SOTW3Chapter 17, begins on page 165

Russia Looks West

Peter the Great

Haaren - Peter the Great

SyngeAoE:  How Peter the Great Learned Shipbuilding

 (Hillyer) Children’s History of the World:  Ch69

Guerber Story of the Thirteen Colonies:  Ben Franklin,

Ch. LIV, Stories of Franklin, Russia. 1706-1790, 1682-1725

Peter's Port to the West

 SyngeAoE:  Charles XII of Sweden

Usborne pages:  Pgs. 316-317; Changes in Russia

KHE pages:  Pgs. 276-277; Russian Expansion 1613-1725. 

Pg. 278; The Great Northern War 1700-1721

1672, Peter the Great is born

1682, Peter the Great becomes the czar of Russia