1 Subject/Course: World History and Geography 1 st Semester Grade Level 10th Weeks Essential Question Content Essential Concepts Key Terms Best Practices for Teaching Resources Assessment 2-3
WHG: F1 F2 F3 F4
1. How to make sense of history?
2. What are the themes of World History?
3. How did humans progress from bands of hunter-gatherers to the great civilizations of the ancient world?
4. How have religions influenced human society? Foundations of World History: Eras 1-3, Beginnings to 300 C.E.
1 & 2. Chronology Evidence Artifact Primary source Secondary source Point of view Bias Periodization Interregional Cultural diffusion Gender roles Kinship
3.Hunter-gatherers Culture Domestication Sedentary Pastoral Nomads Cultural Diffusion Civilization Hierarchy City-State Interregional Dynasty Absolute Monarch Direct Democracy Empire Republic
4. Monotheism Covenant Torah Jewish Diaspora Polytheism Apostles Resurrection Quran Discussions Q&A Lectures Group work Individual projects Map/charts Overhead Research paper PowerPoint Text Overhead VCR/DVD Media center Internet Standards & Benchmarks Unit Exam Quizzes Essays Q&A Presentations
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Sunnah Caste Dharma Karma Nirvana Mandate of Heaven Filial Piety Ideology
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WHG: 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3
4.2 4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3
4.3 4.3.1 4.3.2 4.3.3 4.3.4 4.3.5
1. How did the first empires decline and how did new empires rise to take their place?
2. How did events in Europe contribute to the decline of feudalism and the rise of democratic thought?
3. How did the Byzantine Empire develop and form its own distinctive identity?
4. How did the Chinese dynasties respond to internal and external challenges?
5. How did trade play a key role in the growth of the kingdoms and empires in West Africa?
6. What were the significant achievements of the Mayas, Aztecs, & Incas? Era 4 Middle Ages: Expanding and Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 300 to 1500 C.E. 1.) Collapse of Classical Empires -Spread of religions -Interregional trading systems -Growth of Islam and Dar al- Islam -Sunni -Shia/Shite -Sufi -Unification of Eurasia under the -Mongols -Pax Mongolica -The Plague
2.) Feudalism -Manoralism -Monarchies -City-states -Role of Roman Catholic Church -Growth of towns and cities -Crusades -Hundreds Years War -Black Death
3.) Rise and fall -Location -Tensions between East and West
4.) Effects of the Mongol invasion -Technological innovations -Confucianism
2. Magna Carta Bubonic Plague Habeas Corpus Model Parliament Hundred Years War Heretic
3. Byzantine Empire Constantinople Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch
4. Emperor Imperial Dynasty Discussions Q&A Lectures Group work Individual projects Map/charts Overhead Research paper PowerPoint Text Overhead VCR/DVD Media center Internet Standards & Benchmarks Unit Exam Quizzes Essays Q&A Presentations
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6.) Compare/Contrast- civilization in the Americas
Bureaucracy Warlords Aristocracy Civil Service Examination Meritocracy
5. Matrilineal Trans-Saharan Trade
6. Dialect Pictograph Suspension Bridges
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WHG: 5.1 5.1.1 5.1.2
5.2 5.2.1 5.2.2
5.3 5.3.1 5.3.2 5.3.3 5.3.4 5.3.5 5.3.6
1. What changed the world more between 1400 and 1800-trade, travel, weaponry, or ideas?
2. What made empires outside Europe rise and decline?
3. What ideas transformed Europe in the early modern era?
4. What factors led to European dominance in the emergence of the first global age? Era 5 - The Emergence of the First Global Age, 15 th - 18 th
Centuries
1.) Emerging global systems -Movement of religions & ideas -Networks -Exploration & Impacts -Sea travel -Columbian Exchange -European Exploration -Slave Trade -Compare/Contrast- Atlantic/African slave trade to indentured servants
2.) Analyze the impact of the Ottoman Empire & transformation -Analyze the role of foreign influence in the Mughal Empire -Analyze the major reasons for the continuity of Chinese society under the Ming & Qing dynasties -Analyze the changes in Japanese society based on geography, government, & Chinese influence -Analyze the major political, religious, economic, and cultural transformations in Russia 1. Globalization Renaissance Westernization Absolutism Divine Right Gunpowder revolution Bureaucracy Commercial revolution Capitalism Secular Conquistadors Mestizos Inflation Columbian Exchange Great Dying
2. Meritocracy Janissary Civil Service Despot Tribute Mandate of Heaven Daimyo Samurai Shogun Discussions Q&A Lectures Group work Individual projects Map/charts Overhead Research paper PowerPoint
Text Overhead VCR/DVD Media center Internet Standards & Benchmarks
Unit Exam Quizzes Essays Q&A Presentations
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4.) European overseas expansion -Changes in politics in Europe -Transformation of European economies -Near-elimination of American Indian civilizations -Social classes in Latin America -Silver & Sugar trade -Extraction of resources and human labor Czar Boyars Serf
3 Humanism Reformation Scientific revolution Enlightenment Secular Vernacular Indulgences Heresy Excommunication Protestant Denomination Counter- Reformation Geocentric Theory Heliocentric Theory Scientific Method Social Contract Natural Rights Separation of powers
4. Nation-states Sovereign Revenue Treaty of Tordesillas Circumnavigate Indentured servitude Triangular Trade Mercantilism Capitalism Entrepreneur