While we studied the Renaissance this week, we read about many inventions which changed history.  The video below looks at innovations throughout the history of humans.  What would your answer be?

Austin is a former student of mine and he disappeared when he was 19 about four years ago.  If you see Austin or know someone who has, please call the Dolton Police at (708) 841-2533.  We would all love to see him come back home.

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Below are links to the assignments from Chapter 10.  More to follow as we cover the rest of the chapter.

Interesting video which provides a nice picture of the spread of religion over the past 5,000 years.

This documentary does a great job of describing what happened on August 24, 79 AD.  The producers used historical artifacts to fictionalize stories about what might have happened that day.  Also the casts that archaeologists made of the people left behind are fascinating (yet sad).  It is quite interesting!