These standards enable students to cover history and geography from 1500 A.D. to the present, with emphasis on Western Europe. Geographic influences on history continue to be explored, but increasing attention is given to political boundaries that developed with the evolution of nations. Significant attention will be given to the ways in which scientific and technological revolutions created new economic conditions that in turn produced social and political changes. Noteworthy people and events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be emphasized for their strong connections to contemporary issues.
The study of history rests on knowledge of dates, names, places, events and ideas. Historical understanding, however, requires students to engage in historical thinking, to raise questions and to marshal evidence in support of their answers. Students engaged in historical thinking draw upon chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis and interpretation, historical research, and decision-making. These skills are developed through the study of significant historical substance from the era or society that is being studied.
1500 A.D. Political, Cultural, and Economic Conditions
Session 1: Mapping the Political Boundaries in 1500 a.d.
Session 2: Mapping the World’s Major Religions in 1500 a.d.
Session 3: Mapping the World’s Major Trade Routes in 1500 a.d.
Session 4: Analyzing Products and Transportation in 1500 a.d.
Session 5: Arts, Literature, and Ideas of the Renaissance
Session 6: Comparing Medieval and Renaissance Art
Session 7: Review of the Renaissance World
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Reformation
Session 1: Causes of the Reformation
Session 2: The Reformers. Hero or Zero?
Session 3: Mapping the Reformation
Session 4: Results of the Reformation
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Age of Discovery
Session 1: The Spice Trade
Session 2: The Conquistadors
Session 3: Colonies and Trading Posts
Session 4: The Columbian Exchange
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Impact of Global Trade after 1500 A.D.
Session 1: Trade and the Ottoman Empire
Session 2: Trade and the Mughal Empire
Session 3: Chinese and Japanese Trade
Session 4: African Trade
Session 5: Mercantilism and the Commercial Revolution
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1500 A.D. Science, Politics, Economics, and Religion in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
Session 1: The Scientific Revolution
Session 2: Absolute Monarchies in France, Prussia, and Russia
Session 3: Absolute Monarchy in England
Session 4: The Enlightenment Thinkers
Session 5: The Enlightenment and the French Revolution
Session 6: The Impact of the Enlightenment on the Arts and Technology
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Politics in Nineteenth Century Europe
Session 1: The Napoleonic Code and the Congress of Vienna
Session 2: The Rise of Nationalism
Session 3: Reunification of Italy and Germany
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Industrial Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
Session 1: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution
Session 2: Origin of the Industrial Revolution
Session 3: Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Industrialized Countries
Session 4: Life during the Industrial Revolution
Session 5: Innovations and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Session 6: The Rise of Communism
Session 7: Impacts of the Industrial Revolution on the Worker
Session 8: The Growth of Labor Unions
Session 9: Researching the Impact of Labor Unions
Session 10: Imperialism
Session 11: Responses of Colonized People during the Nineteenth Century
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World War I
Session 1: The Causes of World War I
Session 2: National Boundaries in 1914
Session 3: Important Figures of World War I
Session 4: Trench Warfare
Session 5: New Weaponry in World War I
Session 6: Russia from 1914-1917
Session 7: The Russian Revolution
Session 8: Treaty of Versailles (Part 1)
Session 9: Treaty of Versailles (Part 2)
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1919 to 1941
Session 1: The League of Nations
Session 2: The Great Depression
Session 3: The Rise of Dictatorships
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World War II
Session 1: Causes, Major Events, and Major Figures of World War II
Session 2: The Holocaust and Other Genocides
Session 3: Outcomes of World War II
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The Cold War
Session 1: The Early Cold War
Session 2: Events of the Cold War
Session 3-7: Events of the Cold War (continued)
Session 8: The End of the Cold War
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Independence Movements in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Session 1: Movements toward Independence from European Imperial Powers
Session 2: Mohandas Gandhi
Session 3: The Independence Movement in Africa (Part I)
Session 4: The Independence Movement in Africa (Part 2)
Session 5: The Middle East Mandate System
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Major World Religions in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Session 1: Monotheistic Religions (Part 1)
Session 2: Monotheistic Religions (Part 2)
Session 3: The Five Pillars of Islam
Session 4: Introduction to Hinduism and Buddhism
Session 5: Buddhist Beliefs and Leaders
Session 6: Mapping the Major World Religions
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Cultural, Economic, and Social Conditions in the Contemporary World
Session 1: Developed and Developing Nations
Session 2: Economic Development of Nations
Session 3: Factors Affecting Economic Development
Sessions 4 and 5: World Population Forum
Session 6: Economic Interdependence
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