Although I tend to stay as far as possible from canned curricula, we love Mystery Of History. This fat book by Linda Hobar provides a chronological outline of history from an unabashedly Christian perspective, beginning with Creation and going all the way to the crucifixion of Christ. Mrs. Hobar covers not only Egypt and the Bible lands, but much of the world.
From the CBD product description:

What was happening in China as the Israelites crossed the Red Sea? Who lived in North America at the time that Jeremiah wrote Lamentations? This Bible-centered curriculum interweaves Bible and Old World history to teach your students about God's sovereignty.

We have found this book very easy to use with a wide variety of ages, and the hands-on projects are designed with just that use in mind. The text is fun and chatty and provides a complete lesson for those days (or weeks) when you can't do more, but also provides plenty of ideas and suggestions for projects, discussion, reading, videos, research, etc. for when you do have the time and inclination to delve deeper.
Mystery Of History can be a spine for a deeper, more complete survey of history (and has plenty of suggestions to help you use it that way) or it can be a complete history course in itself.
This course requires little or no prep on my part, and all of our children love it. It is a very nice balance of structure with complete flexibility, essential features for families who are homeschooling a variety of ages at the same time.

Also available:
The Mystery Of History, Volume 2: The Early Church and the Middle Ages

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