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The Story of the World, Volume 1
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TextPages ix, 235, 333, 334Change "Jakata" to "Jataka"2008-2016
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Page 111, map for Chapter 15Three misspellings: on the map legend, change "Phonecia" and "Phonecian" to "Phoenicia" and "Phoenician". The title of the map should be "Phoenicia and Its Settlements".2008-2016
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Page 116, Map for Chapter 16Change the label on the the body of water in the upper-right corner from "Caspian Sea" to "Black Sea".2008-2016
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Page 153, last sentence of the first paragraphChange "the Greeks though that…" to "the Greeks thought that…"2008-2016
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Page 189, middle of the pageIn discussing the drawing of the monkey, "covered hundreds of miles of ground" should say "covered hundreds of feet of ground." (The area covered by all the drawings together is 190 square miles, but no single drawing is more than 900 feet.)June 2011
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Page 207, picture captionChange "Pluto stole Ceres" to "Pluto stole Proserpine" as described in the story.2008-2016
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Page 221, top of pageThe words "African Sea" should be, instead, "Mediterranean Sea."May 2024
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Page 296, in the "Parent Note"Nero’s reign should be listed as lasting from 54-68. Also should be corrected in Appendix One, page 320.2008-2016
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Page 313Change "eight other planets in our solar system" to "seven other planets in our solar system". In the same sentence, take "Pluto" out of the list of planets. The list should end with Neptune.June 2011
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Page 320, timelineChange the year "Attila the Hun dies" from 52 to 453.2008-2016
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Appendix 1, page 320Nero’s reign should be listed as lasting from 54-68. This should also be corrected on page 296.2008-2016
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Activity Book and
Student Pages		Chapter 6, Student Page 17The directions for the word search are incorrect. Some of the words run diagonally,and there is no bonus riddle. The directions should read as follows:2008-2016
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1. Solve the following clues, and write the answers in the spaces provided.
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2. All the answer words from the clues are in the word search and run from left to right, top to bottom, or diagonally. Find them now.
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Chapter 6, Page 22In Review Questions, the answer to how old Sarah was should be "at least ninety" as stated in the text instead of "one hundred years old."
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Chapter 32 Student Page 96Change "Jakata" to "Jataka"
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Map for Chapter 16Change the label on the the body of water in the upper-right corner from "Caspian Sea" to "Black Sea".
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Page 36 , Chapter 17, Review QuestionsQuestion #5 asks the student to list the three wonders of the world they have studied. Pages 27 of the text tells the student they have studied two Ancient Wonders: The Pyramid of Giza and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The word "three" should be replaced with the word "two."
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Parent Answer Key Map for Chapter 22The map image is incorrect in some books. The correct image is to the right.
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Page 175, Parent Answer Key Map for Chapter 32The map image is incorrect in some books. The correct image is to the right.
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TestsPage 6, question 9This should read “What was the thing that was not good about this special paper?”
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Page 51, question 6Choice d should read “hundreds of feet across”.Winter 2012
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Review Question WorksheetsChapter 17Question #5 asks the student to list the three wonders of the world they have studied. Pages 27 of the text tells the student they have studied two Ancient Wonders: The Pyramid of Giza and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The word "three" should be replaced with the word "two."
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The Story of the World, Volume 2
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TextPage 226, Chapter 24In older printings of this book, the illustration depicted on this page doesn’t show the same "Lion Gate" that was mentioned in the chapter. We corrected this in 2016 with a new illustration.2016
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Page 297, chapter 32The reference to logs filling in the moats of Tenochtitlan shouldn't mention horses, as the Aztecs didn't have them yet. The updated text reads ..."with heavy logs to allow horses and carts to cross"... The updated text reads "with heavy logs to allow people to cross"... June 2023
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Page 393, Appendix1519 Cortes conqueres the Incas. Should be Cortes conquers the Aztecs, but did not fully defeat them until 1521
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Activity Book and
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TestsChapter 6 test, question 7If you purchased this test book before 2017, you may have answer-choices for question 7 based on an earlier printing of the main book, which mentioned letters of fire on a silk scroll. However, Dr. Bauer updated the main book a couple of years ago, after consulting more accurate historical sources, and ended up changing that sentence. Newer printings of the test booklet do not contain that question. Instead, they replace it with this:

What did Muhammad see in his vision? a. a bell b. a hand holding a pen c. an angel d. people traveling to Mecca

...with the correct answer being C.
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Review Question Worksheets
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The Story of the World, Volume 3, Original Edition
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Original TextPage 43, Chapter 4The text says "land in front him" but it should say "land in front of him."2020
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Page 81, Chapter 8"ruled this part of world" should read "ruled this part of the world."2020
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Page 82, Chapter 8"Seleucids" is usually spelled correctly; it is spelled incorrectly in the sentence that ends with "...grew larger as the Selucids lost power." Change that one to Seleucids. 2020
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Page 94, Chapter 9 - geographic errorChange the paragraph to "The Protestant King of Sweden, Gustavus II, watched in horror. Sweden lies just across a narrow sea from Denmark; now the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor were camped just a few miles from his own country."2020
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Page 109, Chapter 11The text says "Twenty thousand craftsman labored"; it should say "Twenty thousand craftsmen labored."2020
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Page 117, Chapter 12Change the beginning of the following sentence, "Four years after the war began, Cromwell led the New Model Army into battle" to "Two years after the war began, Cromwell helped lead the Roundheads into battle".2020
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Page 124, Chapter 12, top of the pageThis reads "account of plague" but should say "account of the plague".2020
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Page 137, Chapter 14This page contains a potentially confusing sentence about the "First Reich." Delete "Now, Prussia belonged to the first Reich or the first German Kingdom. (Reich is the German word for "kingdom.")". Then, at the end of the next paragraph ("until this time..."), insert the following sentence: "They used the word Reich--the German word for "kingdom"--to refer to this German kingdom."2020
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Page 143, Chapter 15Change "the colonists had guns" to "the colonists had more guns". (The Indians had guns too, as The Story of the World, Volume 3 goes on to say.)2020
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Page 145, Chapter 15Change "The Iroquois had always been more warlike than Huron" to "The Iroquois had always been more warlike than the Hurons."2020
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Page 147, Chapter 15The text says, "Ships from Canada came to the ports of New France, bringing French goods..." But Canada is the same thing as New France, so change it to "ships from France".2020
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Page 151, Chapter 15The text says "Maryland, the colony just east of Pennsylvania…" Maryland is south, not east, of Pennsylvania. Change this to “Maryland, the colony just south of Pennsylvania…”2020
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Page 152, Chapter 15In the sentence, "Mary was a protestant...", "capitalize "Protestant." (This is consistent with the rest of the paragraph and the rest of the book.)2020
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Page 158, Chapter 16In the paragraph beginning "In his book..." change "life, health, liberty, and possession" to "life, health, liberty, and possessions."2020
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Page 172, Chapter 17"When the weakened Swedes finally met the Russian in battle" should read "When the weakened Swedes finally met the Russians in battle".2020
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Page 178, Chapter 18"in no danger of become western" should read "in no danger of becoming Western".2020
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Page 197, Chapter 20Change "boats sailing from the mainland toward the Chinese coast." to "...toward the Taiwanese coast."2020
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Page 204, Chapter 21Change "Dinwiddie made Washington into an officer" to "Dinwiddie promoted Washington to a higher rank..."2020
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Page 215, Chapter 22Change "...and to assume among the power of the earth..." to "...and to assume among the powers of the earth..."2020
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Page 215, Chapter 22, second to the last lineThis should read "...the Delaware River" (insert the word "River").2020
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Page 216, Chapter 22The text says "...had just won the Seven Year's War!" The correct name of the war in other history book and in our own (Chapter 21) is the Seven Years' War. Correct this also in Chapter 25, page 239. We use the correct punctuation in our other references. 2020
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Page 229, Chapter 24, second paragraphChange "war ships" to "warships".2020
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Page 240 (3 times) and 245 (2 times), Chapter 25Change "Marie-Antoinette" to "Marie Antoinette" (no hyphen).2020
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Page 241, Chapter 25Capitalize "Mass". 2020
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Page 243 (2 times) and page 244 (1 time), Chapter 25Change "Tuilieres" to "Tuileries".2020
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Page 244, Chapter 25Change "like Charles II" to "like Charles I".2020
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Page 249, Chapter 26Change "Peter Ulirch" to "Peter Ulrich".2020
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Page 254, Chapter 26Change "ambassadors from France and Russia" to "ambassadors from France and Prussia"2020
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Page 263, Chapter 27Capitalize "Army" in this case. 2020
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Page 264, Chapter 27 (2 times)Change "firing pin" to "bayonet" in both places. 2020
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Page 276, Chapter 29Delete the reference to Mona Lisa and say instead, "Many great Italian works of art are still in Paris today."2020
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Page 280, Chapter 29Capitalize "English Channel".2020
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Page 286, Chapter 30Delete the reference to malaria; it is a separate disease from "yellow fever." The French troops had yellow fever. 2020
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Page 297 (1 time) and 298 (2 times), Chapter 32Replace "Mississippi river" with "Missouri River".2020
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Page 300, Chapter 32 (10 times)Replace "Shoshoni" with "Shoshone".2020
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Page 301, Chapter 32Change "new plant and animals" with "new plants and animals".2020
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Page 305, Chapter 32Change the first ocurrence of "Choctaw" to "Choctaws" in order to be consistent with the next sentence. 2020
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Page 309, Chapter 33Change "English navy" to "British navy"2020
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Page 311, Chapter 33Change "Americans sailors" to "American sailors".2020
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Page 312, Chapter 33"the British sent part of its navy" should read "Britain sent part of its navy". Also, on that page, insert a comman to make "...Washington DC..." read "...Washington, DC".2020
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Page 325 (2 times) and page 326 (1 time)Change "Columbia" to "Colombia" (the correct spelling for the South American republic)2020
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Page 348, Chapter 37Change "kingdoms" to "nations".2020
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Pages 375 and 376, Chapter 41Change "paheka" to "pakeha". 2020
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Page 376, Chapter 41Change "...the Maori would recognize England as its ruler..." to "...the Maori would recognize England as their ruler..." (plural).2020
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Page 379, Chapter 41Insert a comma between "Flagstaff War" and "had ended", because "Flagstaff War" is a parenthetical phrase.2020
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Page 388, DatesIn the entry for 1649, change "Charles II of England is executed" to "Charles I of England is executed."2020
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Page 408, IndexAdd entry for Marie Antoinette; she is referenced on pages 240 and 2452020
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Page 412, IndexAdd page 103 to the entry for "Peking" (it is also referenced on page 192)2020
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Page 416, IndexChange "Shoshoni" to "Shoshone"2020
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Page 418, IndexChange "Marie-Madeline de Vercheres" to "Marie-Madeleine de Vercheres" to match the reference in the text.2020
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Original Activity Book and Student Pages
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Tests
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Review Question Worksheets
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Changed from Original Text to Revised Text
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2020 Text and AudiobookDisc 2, track 1, beginning. "Peace Hill Press" changed to"Well-Trained Mind Press" twice.
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Disc 3, track 5 (Chapter 12, subsection 1) around 5:40We changed "Four years after the war began, Cromwell led the New Model Army into battle" to "Two years after the war began, Cromwell helped lead the Roundheads into battle."
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Disc 3, track 9 (Chapter 14), around 5:20We cut "Now, Prussia belonged to the first Reich or the first German kingdom. (Reich is the German word for "kingdom.") At the end of the next paragraph, which begins, "Until this time..." we inserted the following sentence after the sentence that ends with "...ruled by a German king": "They used the word Reich--the German word for "kingdom"--to refer to this German kingdom."
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Disc 4, track 1 (Chapter 15, subsection 1), around 5:02We changed "The colonists had guns" to "The colonists had more guns".
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Disc 4, track 2 (Chapter 15, subsection 2), around 4:31We changed "Ships from Canada" to "Ships from France".
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Disc 4, track 3 (Chapter 15, subsection 3), around 6:35We changed "Maryland, the colony just east of Pennsylvania" to "Maryland, the colony just south of Pennsylvania".
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Disc 5, track 4 (Chapter 20, subsection 2), around 8:43We changed "boats sailing from the mainland toward the Chinese coast" to "boats sailing from the mainland toward the Taiwanese coast".
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Disc 5, track 6 (Chapter 21, subsection 2), around 4:50We changed "Dinwiddie made Washington into an officer" to "Dinwiddie promoted Washington to a higher rank".
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Disc 7, track 2 (Chapter 27, subsection 2), around 3:44We changed "firing pin" to "bayonet" twice, in two back-to-back sentences.