European History

Magic Tree House #15: Viking Ships At Sunrise (Unabridged)

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In this exciting adventure, Jack and Annie are taken to a monastery in medieval Ireland to find a lost book. While they are there, Viking raiders come ashore, hoping to make slaves of the monks.

Author: 
Mary Pope Osborne
Grade Level: 
Elementary
Lexile: 
410L
Length: 
00:40
Magic Tree House #15: Viking Ships At Sunrise (Unabridged)

Night (Unabridged)

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It is 1944. The Jews of Sighet, Hungary are rounded up and driven into Nazi concentration camps. For the next terrible year, young Elie Wiesel experiences the loss of everything he loves — home, friends, family — in an agonizing journey through Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald. The greatest tragedy of our time, told through the eyes of a 15-year old boy.

Author: 
Elie Wiesel
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
590L
Length: 
04:18
Night (Unabridged)

Diplomacy

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At the turn of the 20th century, the seven Great European Powers engage in an intricate struggle for supremacy. Military forces invade and withdraw, shifting borders and altering empires with subtle maneuvers and daring gambits.

Grade Level: 
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
180 min.
Diplomacy

Here I Stand

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Here I Stand: Wars of the Reformation (1517-1555) is the first game in over 25 years to cover the political and religious conflicts of early 16th Century Europe.

Grade Level: 
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
240 min.
Here I Stand

Espana 1936

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It’s 1936.  While the rest of Europe is about to be hurled into a devastating era, a longstanding conflict in Spain begins to boil over into a bloody civil war.  Unusual alliances form as Anarchists, Fascists, Communists, Monarchists, Arabs, Germans and Italians all take part in the division of t

Grade Level: 
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
240 min.
Espana 1936

2 de Mayo

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2 de Mayo is an historical simulation of the terrible incidents that took place in Madrid on May 2, 1808. On that date, civilians in Madrid , along with a few Spanish army units, rebelled against the French occupation troops of Napoleon.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Play Time: 
20 min.
2 de Mayo

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