Coloring Pages

The Mystery of History Volume II by Linda Lacour Hobar

Coloring Pagesby Nicole Peterson

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Coloring recommendations from the artist: While crayons are ideal for other coloring books, colored pencils are actually the best choice for coloring these pages. For a better variety of colors (and to have the most fun) get a box of 24 or 50 colored pencils. Here are some ways you can make the most of your pictures: • Have fun picking colors! If you’re coloring the sky, what color is it? Is it blue

because it’s daytime? If so, what kind of blue? Or if it is sunrise or sunset, what colors would you pick for those times of day?

• Pressing harder or softer on the pencil adds even more color options. It also makes for an interesting picture when you color using different pressures. Press hard if you want the area to look more solid (like a tree trunk) and press lightly if you want to make the area to look softer (like the sky).

• Don’t forget the background! If there is nothing in the background, pick one color (or more!) and color it in!

Here is one that I colored in myself.

Finally, while you are coloring, ask yourself two things. What am I coloring? How does this relate to the lesson? It’s a great way to help you remember what you are learning! I hope you enjoy coloring these pages!

~Nicole Peterson

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Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Directions:

Each week of The Mystery of History Volume II has one coloring page with three images per page. Each image represents a single lesson from that week. The images are arranged from top-to-bottom (as shown below). If you want to know the lesson’s title, please refer to the table of contents on pages iv–vi. To print out a single page, click the “print” icon at the bottom of the page (the icon itself will note print). Enjoy!

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(Week 1)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

WEEK 1Lesson 1: PENTECOST and the First Followers of Jesus (c. A.D. 33 and following)*Lesson 2: “Saul, Who Also Is Called Paul” (c. A.D. 35)Lesson 3: Paul’s Missionary Journeys (c. A.D. 46–66)

WEEK 2Lesson 4: Nero (A.D. 37–68) Lesson 5: Martyrs of the Early Church (c. A.D. 64–257) Lesson 6: Josephus (A.D. 66)

WEEK 3Lesson 7: Masada (A.D. 66–73)Lesson 8: The Dead Sea ScrollsLesson 9: The Buried City of Pompeii (A.D. 79)

WEEK 4 Lesson 10: Bar-Kokhba (A.D. 135)Lesson 11: The Apostles’ Creed (c. A.D. 150)Lesson 12: St. Valentine (A.D. 269)

WEEK 5Lesson 13: Diocletian Divides the Roman Empire (A.D. 284–305)Lesson 14: Constantine I and the EDICT OF MILAN (313)* Lesson 15: The Golden Age of India (c. 320–500)

WEEK 6Lesson 16: The Maya (c. 350–900)Lesson 17: St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430)Lesson 18: The Holy Bible and the Vulgate by Jerome (382–405)

WEEK 7 Lesson 19: St. Patrick, Missionary to Ireland (c. 389–461) Lesson 20: Attila the Hun (434–453) Lesson 21: FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE (476)*

WEEK 8Lesson 22: Daily Life in the Dark Ages (c. 500–1000) Lesson 23: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (503) Lesson 24: Justinian I and Theodora, Rulers of the Byzantine Empire (527–565)

WEEK 9Lesson 25: Columba, Missionary to Scotland (563)Lesson 26: Early Japan and Prince Shotoku (573)Lesson 27: Gregory the Great (590)

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WEEK 10Lesson 28: The Sui and Tang Dynasties of China (589, 618) Lesson 29: Mohammed and the BIRTH OF ISLAM (622)* Lesson 30: The Spread of Islam (632)

WEEK 11Lesson 31: Wu Zetian, the Empress of China (690) Lesson 32: The Epic of Beowulf (Early 700s) Lesson 33: Al-Andalus: “The Ornament of the World” in Medieval Spain (711)

WEEK 12Lesson 34: St. Boniface, Apostle to Germany (718) Lesson 35: The Iconoclast Controversy (726) Lesson 36: Charles “Martel” and the BATTLE OF TOURS (732)*

WEEK 13 Lesson 37: Charlemagne (768) Lesson 38: The Thousand and One Nights: Tales from Arabia (786) Lesson 39: INVASION OF THE VIKINGS (793)*

WEEK 14 Lesson 40: The Vikings: Their Families, Their Homes, and Their Faith (c. 800–1100) Lesson 41: Methodius and Cyril, Missionaries to the Slavs (863) Lesson 42: Alfred the Great, King of England (871)

WEEK 15Lesson 43: Lydveldid Island (Iceland) (874) Lesson 44: The Maori of New Zealand (c. 900)Lesson 45: The Great Zimbabwe of Africa (c. 900)

WEEK 16Lesson 46: “Good King Wenceslas” (929) Lesson 47: Otto I and the Holy Roman Empire (936) Lesson 48: Vladimer I of Russia (c. 956)

WEEK 17Lesson 49: The Song Dynasty of China (960) Lesson 50: St. Simon and the Coptic Orthodox Church (979) Lesson 51: Eric the Red and the Settlement of Greenland (985)

WEEK 18 Lesson 52: LEIF ERICSSON DISCOVERS AMERICA (c. 1003)* Lesson 53: Macbeth, King of Scotland (1040) Lesson 54: El Cid, a Spanish Hero (1040)

WEEK 19 Lesson 55: William the Conqueror and the BATTLE OF HASTINGS (1066)*

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Lesson 56: Pope Gregory VII, Henry IV, and the Investiture Controversy (1076)Lesson 57: THE EARLY CRUSADES (1096)*

WEEK 20 Lesson 58: The Petrobrusians and the Waldensians (1100s) Lesson 59: Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Queen of Two Nations (1154) Lesson 60: The Jews of the Middle Ages (c. 12th Century)

WEEK 21 Lesson 61: Richard the Lionhearted, Saladin, and the Third Crusade (1192) Lesson 62: The Classic Tale of Robin Hood (Unknown) Lesson 63: The Shoguns and Samurai of Japan (1192)

WEEK 22Lesson 64: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Clara, and St. Dominic (1210, 1212, 1216) Lesson 65: The Children’s Crusade (1212) Lesson 66: King John and the Magna Carta (1215)

WEEK 23 Lesson 67: Frederick II, “The Amazement of the World” (1229)Lesson 68: St. Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher of the Middle Ages (1252) Lesson 69: Roger Bacon, Scientist of the Middle Ages (1253)

WEEK 24Lesson 70: The Great Khans and the Mongol Invasion of China (1260) Lesson 71: MARCO POLO TRAVELS EAST (1271)* Lesson 72: Sir William Wallace and Robert Bruce, “Bravehearts” of Scotland (1298, 1314)

WEEK 25Lesson 73: Dante Alighieri, Poet of the Middle Ages (1318) Lesson 74: The Aztecs (The Mexica) (1325) Lesson 75: The Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453)

WEEK 26Lesson 76: The Black Death of Europe (1348) Lesson 77: The Ming Dynasty of China and the Forbidden City (1368–1644) Lesson 78: JOHN WYCLIFFE, “MORNING STAR OF THE REFORMATION” (1377)*

WEEK 27Lesson 79: Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales (1387)Lesson 80: John Huss (1415)Lesson 81: The Life and DEATH OF JOAN OF ARC (1431)*

WEEK 28Lesson 82: The Inkas of South America (1438) Lesson 83: The Ottoman Turks Take Constantinople (1453) Lesson 84: Johannes Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press (1456)

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Week 9

Week 10