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After I finished reading 'I know what you did last summer', I decided to take a break on English books. As a result, I decided to read a history book called 'The Story of the World 2' by Susan Wise Bauer in Korean. There are 5 of these books. No. 1 is the Ancient Times, No. 2 is the Middle Age, No. 3 is right before modern times, No. 4 is Modern (1), and No. 5 is Modern (2). This is a 580 page book and it is really long and it took me 6 days to finish this. This book is hard to tell about this story so in this blog post, I will tell you about this author and also about my favourite part of this book.This book is written by an author called Susan Wise Bauer. She is a mom of a child, and she doesn't like her child studying in school so she decided to teach her child history herself. As a result, she made a book about history and this is the one. This book is the easiest history book you could ever find because she wrote this book for a little child. This book was very successfully made, so this book was published, and when I read it, I got into it even though I don't like history books that much. Even though it is a very long book, it tells every little thing that happened in world history very clearly that everyone could understand easily.
'Story of the World 2' starts from the early Middle Age part and ends at the last part of the Middle Age. This book starts with Rome collapsing and getting attacked, it moves to the starting of Britain, moves the the Byzantine Empire, goes to India, Islam, and then moves to the story of Arabian Night. Then, the history is focused on China, Korea, Japan and goes down to Australia. It moves to Europe, France, Spain, Portugal and England again. When the book was almost finished, America starts appearing; about Christopher Colombus, Amerigo Vesepucci, and Ferdinand Magellan. King Martin Luther appears, and it ends with Queen Elizabeth and William Shakespear.
My favourite part of this book is the beggining of this book when Britain appears. In that chapter, it tells the story about Beowolf, and I can bet you know about it. Here is how it goes. The king made a nice place for his servants to sleep and rest. Fire up above the ceiling protected them from fear and nothing bad was happening. One day, a big monster (bigger than two trees combined together) attacked that place and ate a lot of men every night. This monster was so tall that the tallest man only reached to his knee. The King's knights and fighters couldn't handle this problem. A man named Beowolf came to the rescue and said that he wants to fight the monster. When the monster came, he threw away his own armor and swords. He wanted to fight with bare hands. Suddenly, Beowolf stood up and held the monsters' arm. He twisted the monsters arm harder and harder. Then at last, when he twisted so hard, his arm broke and came out. The monster got out of the castle and ran away for his life. I think this story is really good and I read this part over and over.
I think it is a really good book that teaches us history. I learned a lot about this book. Even though I knew some parts of this book already, I learnt more about it clearly. I would give this book 5 stars out of 5 and I recommend this book to everyone. Susan Wise Bauer is a really good author.
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