Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The fall of Constantinople!


Today we learned about the fall of the great city of Constantinople in History today. The kids had fun learning about this great city and the many times it had been attacked. Mehemed, the Turkish sultan, was determined to see it fall, and fall it did. He even had his men drag his ships over land to attack the city on the north side that was so well protected, and used the largest cannons ever seen at that time. So in of this great cities fall we made a cannon out of toilet paper rolls, paper clips and rubber bands. It may not knock down a city wall, but I am sure it could knock out an eye!

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am a middle school teacher with similar content in world history. How old are the children you are covering this content with and at what depth do you assess them on?