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God has given the earth to man for a home. Geography is the study of the surface of the earth. Geogra-phy helps us to understand history because it tells us about the places where history has happened.

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since 1497, when John Cabot claimed North America for England. By this time, an important change had taken place in Eng-land—all the people in England were free to read the Bible for themselves. This free-dom had an important effect on the kind of people who came to America from England and the kind of government they set up.

The Lost ColonyQueen Elizabeth I was the powerful

ruler of England in 1585. She was proud of England and wanted all Englishmen to be proud, too. A successful English colony in the New World would boost her people’s pride.

The Pilgrims were the most famous group of English settlers to come to America.

Walter Raleigh [rôÆl™] was a good friend of the queen. When he asked for permission to begin a colony, Queen Elizabeth gave it to him without hesitation. But the queen told him that he himself could not go to Ameri-ca—he had to choose someone else to go!

How strange it seems that the man who was to plan the first English colony in America never went to America himself! The queen had very good reasons. Eng-land was having trouble with Spain. If a war broke out, she knew she could trust Raleigh’s judgment to help England.

Raleigh sent two sea captains to find a good place in America for an English

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Next, the British fleet sailed up the Chesapeake to attack Baltimore, where they met fierce resistance. When the fleet failed to destroy Fort McHenry, a strategic fort which guarded the entrance to Baltimore’s harbor, the British finally gave up and left Chesapeake Bay.

Dolly Madison served as the White House hostess for 16 years. Of Quaker descent, Dolly married a Quaker law-

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Dolly Madison (1768 –1849)

President. She was a popular and charming hostess known for her ability to make White House socials enjoyable.

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“The Star-Spangled Banner”With President Madison’s permission,

Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), a promi-nent Washington lawyer, went to Baltimore to rescue a friend captured at Washington. On September 13, 1814, Key boarded a prisoner exchange ship to negotiate his friend’s release. While on board, he was detained while the British bombarded Fort McHenry. Francis Scott Key watched the battle anxiously. By the last light of day, he could see that the American flag still flew proudly over Fort McHenry. Throughout the night, he could tell by “the rockets’ red glare,” and “the bombs bursting in air” that the Americans still held the fort. Then, the first light of the new day revealed that the flag was still flying. The sight of the waving flag prompted Key to pull an old letter from his pocket and scratch the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The poem was set to music, and, in 1931, it officially became America’s national anthem.

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The Beginning of the WorldWorld history is a story: it had a begin-

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Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is the most reliable source for what we need to know about the beginning of world history. If you have read it, you have already begun to study history. The word Genesis means “beginning” or “origin.” The book of Genesis tells us that “in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” including the universe and man.

The Beginning of ManAdam, whose name means “man,” and

Eve, whose name means “mother of all,” were the last creations of God. In order of impor-tance, however, they were first. God had made everything else—even the sun, moon, and stars—within view of man’s habitation on earth.

Man is special to God because he alone was created in the image of God. Man is definitely not God or “a god.” Man is man. But man possesses some characteristics similar to God’s that permit fellowship with God. Man’s special characteristics include: (1) language and thought, (2) awareness of the difference between right and wrong, and (3) freedom to make choices.

We must never forget man’s special char-acteristics in our study of world history. No plant or animal possesses these characteris-tics. We can have a kind of relationship with one another that no other creatures can share. Most important, we can relate to God in a way that no other part of creation can.

Our freedom to make choices is also important. Men are responsible for what they have done in history. How we choose to use language and thought and how we choose between right and wrong make “all the differ-ence in the world.”

The first human beings were highly intel-ligent. Adam, for example, classified all the varieties of animals, giving each kind a name. He knew language well; it was he who named his wife so appropriately as the mother of all. Of course, the pair could have learned much more. Because of their direct and frequent fellowship with God, what God might have chosen to reveal to them about the workings of the universe can only be imagined.

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manors—can still be seen in Georgia today. Although agriculture remains an important part of the Georgian economy, manufacturing has taken the lead among the state’s many industries. Textiles are Georgia’s most important product. Georgia is a leading producer of lumber, paper products, poultry, peaches, and shrimp. It produces more peanuts and granite than any other state. Tourists may hike the forested Blue Ridge Mountains, go white-water rafting on the Oconee River, or enjoy the resorts and beaches of the Georgian coast. They may also tour museums and historic homes, towns, and battlefields. The streets of old Atlanta are preserved in an underground shopping mall known as “Underground Atlanta.” At Stone Mountain, tourists can see the figures of Confederate leaders carved in solid rock.

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c. 2000 B.C. Rise of Aegean civilization / Minoan civilization flourishes on Crete

c. 1900 B.C. Mycenaeans arrive in Greece

478 B.C. Beginning of Athenian Empire

30 B.C. Rome

conquers Ptolemaic Egypt / End of

Hellenistic Age

323 B.C. Death of Alexander the Great / beginning of Hellenistic Age

338 B.C. Conquest of Greece by Philip II of Macedonia /

establishment of Hellenic League

c. 1400 B.C. Minoan civilization

destroyed by Mycenaeansc. 1200 B.C. Trojan War

776 B.C. First Olympic games

c. 700 B.C. Beginning of Hellenic

(Classical) Age of Greece

c. 1100–800 B.C.

Dorian invasions / “Dark Ages” of Greece

490–479 B.C.

Greco-Persian Wars

431–404 B.C.

Peloponnesian War

461–429 B.C.

Rule of Pericles in Athens / “Golden Age of Greece”

2000 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200 1100 1000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100

The Rise of Ancient Greece

The rugged and mountainous Balkan Peninsula extends into the Mediterranean Sea from southeastern Europe. On the east side are the Black Sea and the Aegean [ˆ¶j™Æèn] Sea, and on the west is the Ionian Sea. Ancient Greece occupied the southern portion of this peninsula and included many of the nearby islands. The Gulf of Corinth, which nearly divides mainland Greece in two, lies between the two prominent regions of ancient Greece—Attica and the Pelopon-nesus [p´læè¶pè¶n™Æsès].

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The ancient Greeks excelled in poetry, politics, and philosophy and aspired to greatness in the arts, but they desired to exceed man’s limits and fell into the trap of humanism.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools”

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The New World’s First Republic 131

plot, Dr. Samuel Prescott became the third member of their party. To wake and warn the colonists, they shouted, “The British are coming!” The minutemen jumped out of their beds and prepared to fight.

The Shot Heard ’round the WorldWhen the British soldiers reached Lex-

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After that first battle at Lexington, the British marched to Concord, where they found minutemen ready for battle. When the struggle had ended, the patriots had forced the British to retreat with severe losses. They could not even take the colo-nists’ stores of ammunition because the minutemen had removed most of the sup-ply already. With the battles of Lexington and Concord, the war had begun, but the

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als to have a stamp or seal affixed to them proving that the purchasers had paid a special tax for the documents

2. the skirmish between a group of Bostonians and some British soldiers which resulted in the deaths of five of the colonists

3. the incident in which a band of colo-nists dressed like Mohawk Indians dumped tea into Boston Harbor in protest to Britain’s tax on tea

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Time Line of Important Dates

Important Wordssurveyor—one who measures land and

draws mapssurrender—to give up or lose to an

enemyrepresentative—a person who speaks

or acts for others

Important NamesGeorge Washington—the first com-

mander in chief of the American army, the president of the meeting in which the United States Constitution was written, and the first President of the United States

French and Indian War—the war in which the English won the right to the American western frontier land

Declaration of Independence—the name of the paper written by Thomas Jefferson, which stated that Americans were free from the rule of the king of England

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1789George Washington elected President

1860Abraham

Lincoln elected

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The Dream of Young George Washington

To be a sailor in the British Royal Navy was a dream of the young George Washington. “Imagine me—Admiral Washington of the British Royal Navy!” he told his mother.

But his mother did not agree. She had heard stories of the rough life of sailors. She did not want that kind of life for her son.

“Besides, George,” she had said, “you are only fourteen years old. You are too young to leave your family.”

Mrs. Washington saw the disap-pointment on her son’s face. “If your

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