Silly me. I picked up The Story of the World and read aloud to the boys during snacktime this afternoon, and they made me keep reading -- more, more, more! After eating all of their food they got out the playdough and made me read on.
We learned a bit about the (return of the) Assyrians & Babylonians, about Crete, and about the Minoans, capped off with the story of the Minotaur. I refused to go on to the early Greeks until tomorrow! Very fun.
I enjoyed acting out the Assyrians' battle tactics against city walls while reading aloud, with one-handed gestures for the basket shields, the earthen ramp against city walls, the assault tower on wheels, etc. Son #1 thought the highlighted Assyrian king, though terrible to those he conquered, was good to his people because he built canals to bring water to his city. I thought that was an interesting assessment.
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