History Minecraft Challenges! Historic Fun. Build & Make Friends BEDROCK

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Students may enroll and unenroll at any time. Participation in any previous class is not required for the current class. Everyone is welcome.

New Challenges will be added every few weeks (students may continue working on any previous challenge for as long as they like):

Challenges: 
Week of October 18: Challenge 1. Build one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Challenge. Can you build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? We will discuss this ancient architectural wonder as we work together to try to recreate this historic structure, its gardens, and the building's water system. 

Week of October 25:  Challenge  2. Survive in Ancient Egypt. Create a successful village and farm in a barren desert with only a river and the resources available in Ancient Egypt. We will discuss daily life and farming practices in Ancient Egypt while we complete this challenge.
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Week of November 1:  Challenge  3. Build a village that resembles Pompeii (don't forget to add an arena and a forum) near a volcano that threatens to destroy the town. Can you save the village or escape in time?

Week of November 7:  Challenge  4. Build one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Can you build the Pyramids of Giza and surrounding building on the Giza plateau? We will learn about how the Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids in Egypt while we work on this challenge.

Week of November 14: Challenge 5: Build the Hippodrome from Constantine's Constantinople. Let's build this chariot racing arena and race in it while we learn about chariot racing in the ancient world and the story of how the capitol of the Roman Empire was moved from Rome to Constantinople. 

Week of November 22: Challenge 6: Build a building in our Minecraft Roman Forum. Will you build a temple? A Basilica? Or perhaps the Roman Senate House?

February Challenge. Help us build the temple of Abu Simbel

March Challenge: Find the secret chest following clues from history and help build a temple to Athena.

April Challenge: Can you add onto our Medieval section? It's growing and we still need shops and authentic festival games for our fairgrounds, our Medieval village is ready for more medieval styled homes and buildings. Let's learn about the medieval world through building!

May Challenge: Asia. This month we will learn about traditional temples and architecture from ancient Japan and China. Do you think that you can build a temple? Would you like to add to our village on the water? 

June Challenge: Build in the style of the Incas.  Can you build a mountain top base?

Challenge for August: We will start building an accurate Roman Forum. You may choose to reconstruct the ruin, or the building in its original state.  I am happy to provide ruin plans and help you mark out the area to make everything fits into our version of the Roman Forum.

Challenge for September: Welcome to Caledonia (Scotland) in the 800s AD. A wintry world of Celtic culture and Viking settlements. Would you like to try building a Viking style house? Or perhaps a dragon-headed ship? Or can you take on the build of the town's Long House?

Challenge for October: King Arthur! Let's recreate Camelot, the sword in the stone, and other places from the adventures of Arthur.

Challenge for November: THIS IS SPARTA!! Join our Spartan city and add your own training centers, houses, and temples, as we learn about Ancient Sparta.

Please join us and have fun trying out these challenges based on history and watch out for more challenges to be added regularly. 

Join Instructions
a copy of Minecraft Bedrock (not Minecraft Java edition)

You can join from the following devices
Mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android phones/tablets)
Xbox One
PS4
Nintendo Switch
Windows 10 computers

You can put the Zoom window and the Minecraft window side-by-side, so you can play and see your friends