World History Course Map
Hayden Herc
Time Content
1.5 weeks Chapter 2: Early Civilizations: 6000
B.C to 30 B.C
Ancient India
The History of Ancient India
Hinduism
Ancient China
The History of Ancient China
1.5 weeks Chapter 3: Civilizations develop in
the Middle East
The Sumerians
The Akkadians and the Babylonians
The Phoenicians and the Hebrews
Chapter 4: Middle-Eastern Empires:
8– B.C to 330 B.C
The Assyrians
The Chaldeans
The Persians
1 week Chapter 5: Egypt – The Gift of the
Nile: 3100 B.C to 30 B.C
The Nile River
The Old Kingdom
The Middle Kingdom
The New Kingdom
Gifts From the Egyptians
2 weeks Chapter 6: Greek Civilization: 2000
B.C. to 323 B.C
Early Civilizations of the Aegean Sea
The Greek City-States
Athens
Sparta
War Tests the Greeks
Greek Cultural Contributions
Alexander the Great Spreads
1 week Chapter 7: The Roman Republic: 753
B.C to 27 B.C
Early Rome
Rome Becomes a Republic
Roman Expands Its Boundaries
The Republic Faces Problems
The End of the Republic
1 week Chapter 8: The Roman Empire: 27
B.C to A.D 476
The Age of Augustus
Governing the Roman Empire
The Rise of Christianity
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Rome’s Contributions to Civilization
Time Content
2 weeks Chapter 9: The Middle Ages in Europe: A.D. 500 to 1500
The Byzantine Empire
The Russians
Europe During the Middle Ages
Chapter 10: Life in the Middle Ages: A.D. 1050 to A.D. 1500
The Church During the Middle Ages
Feudalism
Culture in the Middle Ages
Chapter 11: Africa and the Americans: A.D. 300 to 1590
The Rise of Islam
Islamic Civilization
African Kingdoms
Early Civilizations in the Americans
2 weeks Chapter 12: India, China, and Japan: 563: B.C o A.D 1620
Buddhism
India
China
The Mongols Conquer China
Japan
Japan Develops Its Own Culture
The Tokugawa Unify Japan
1 week Chapter 13: The Renaissance: 1348 to 1600
The Troubles Fourteenth Century
The Spirit of the Renaissance
The Renaissance Begins in Italy
Renaissance Art and Literature
Leonardo da Vinci – A “Renaissance Man”
1 week Chapter 14: The Reformation: 1415 to 1650
People Challenge the Church’s Authority
Martin Luther Leads the Reformation
Luther Starts His Own Church
Protestant Ideas Spread to England
John Calvin Organizes a New Religion
The Counter- Reformation
1 week Chapter 15: The New Science: 1540 to 1750
The Development of Modern Science
Copernicus
Galileo
Isaac newton
Other Early Scientist
1 week Chapter 16: The Age of Kings: 1519 to 1715
The Rise of Nations
The Rise and Fall of Spain
English Monarchs Struggle for Power
England Rejects Absolute Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy in France
Russia and Prussia Produce Strong Monarchs
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First 9 weeks
9 weeks Techniques Techniques Third 9Third
weeks
9 weeks
Concept Essential Question Standards Time Content Concept Essential Question Standards
• Geography play an important role in the 1. Why do all ancient civilizations all start in 8.1.9.C, 8.1.9.D, 8.1.12.C 8.1.9.8, 1 week Chapter 17: Explorers and Explorations: 1450 • Three reasons why the Spaniards came to the 1. Why did Portugal and Spain want to 5.2.12.A, 5.2.12.B, 8.4.12.A (3)
history of civilization river valleys? 8.4.9.B (2), 8.4.9.C 5.1.12.A, 7.1.9.B (5), to 1650 Americas find a water route to China and India? 5.4.9.C, 8.1.9.D (4), 8.4.12.A (1),
• Ancient civilizations form around river 2. Why is geography important to history? 8.4.9.B (2) Europeans Search for New Trade Rounds • Why some European nations search for a all 2. Why did so many Native Americans die 8.4.12.A (3), 8.4.12.B (1),
valleys 3. What are the three facts about Hinduism? Exploring New Lands water route to China and India under Spanish rule? 8.4.12.C (4) 8.1.12.C (3),
• Hinduism The Spanish Conquer Two Empires in • What Spanish conquest did to the Native 3. What new plants did the Europeans 8.4.12.A (2), 8.4.12.A (3),
America American population find in the Americas and how did these 8.4.12.B (1), 8.4.12.B (2),
Spain Establishes Colonies in Americas • Why Portugal introduced African slavery into change European civilizations? 8.4.12.C (4) 7.3.9.D (2), 7.3.12.C
The Growth of the Slave Trade the new world (3), 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.C (4),
The Results of Exploring 8.4.12.D (5)
• Describe how the Akkadian and 1. What gifts did the Sumerian's give to us? 7.1.9.B (2), 7.1.9.B (5), 7.3.12.A (1),
Babylonian civilizations became 2. Why do we remember Hammurabi? 8.4.9.B (1) 5.1.9.B, 5.1.12.A, 5.1.12.B, 1 week Chapter 18: The Age of Reason: 1687 to 1789 • Why historians call this period the Age of 1. Why do historians call the years 1687 to 5.1.12.A, 8.1.12.D (4), 8.4.12.A
powerful in Mesopotamia 3. In what way did the Hebrew people differ from 5.1.12.C 7.4.9.B (1), 7.4.12.A (2), In Search of Natural Laws Reason 1789 the Age of Reason? (2), 8.4.12.B (1), 8.4.12.C (4)
• Evaluate the role of the Phoenicians and other ancient people? 8.4.9.B (2), 8.4.9.B (3), 8.4.9.C (1) New Theories on Government • Compare the views of Thomas Hobbes and 2. Why do historians also call these years 8.4.12.A (2), 8.4.12.A (3),
the Hebrew in world civilization 8.1.9.B (5), 8.4.9.B (2), 8.4.9.B (3) The Influence of Enlightened Thinkers John Locke the Enlightenment? 8.4.12.B (1), 8.4.12.C (4) 5.1.9.C
• Compare the way the Assyrians, the 4. What helped the Assyrians become a war 8.4.9.B (1), 8.4.9.C (3) Enlightenment Ideas Influence Artists • What are enlighten thinkers, rules, musicians, 3. What did Hobbs and Locke agree and (4), 5.1.9.E (4), 5.1.9.E (5),
Chaldeans, and the Persian treated machine?
and writers disagree about with regard to the 5.1.9.E (8), 5.3.9.K (4)
conquered peoples. 5. What was the difference between the way the
government
• Explain the way the Persian unified their Assyrians treated defeated people and the way
Empire the Persians did?
1 week Chapter 19: The Industrial Revolution: 1750 • The economic conditions needed for 1. Why do historians use the word 6.1.12.D, 6.2.9.H (1), 6.2.12.L,
to 1850 industrialization to take place revolution to describe the industrial 6.4.9.A-C , .3.12.D (2), 7.3.12.D
• The Nile river importance to Egypt 1. Why was the Neil River so important to the 7.1.9.B (5), 7.3.9.A (3), 7.3.9.B(2), The Industrial Revolution Begins in England • The benefits and problems of industrialization changes that took place in England (3), 7.3.12.E (2), 7.4.12.A (1)
• Differences between the Old and the Egyptians? 7.3.9.C (1) 7.4.9.B (1), 8.1.9.A (4), The Growth of the First Modern Industries • Important inventions that helped during the 1700s?
Middle Kingdoms 2. How did the tree kingdoms of Egypt differ? 8.1.9.C (4), 8.4.9.B (2) 7.1.12.B (3), Transportation Improves industrialization 2. What three conditions are necessary for
• Contributions Egypt has made to world 3. Why were the Hyksos and later invaders able to 7.3.12.B (2), 7.4.9.B (1), 8.4.9.B (2) Industry Brings Change and Problems • What was revolutionary about the industrial an industrial revolution to take place in
civilization defeat the Egyptians? revolution in England a country?
3. Why is a good transportation system
needed for the growth of the industry?
• The geography of Greece influence its 1. Greece is on a peninsula and rocky mountains. 8.4.9.A (2), 8.4.9.C (4), 8.4.9.D (5) 1 week Chapter 20: An Age of Revolution: 1775 to • Causes of the American Revolution 1. What were the colonist rebelling .3.12.A (1), 8.3.12.D (1),
civilizations What effect did this geography have on its 5.1.9.B (1), 5.1.12.B, 5.2.9.A (2) 8.1.9.D 1815 • How the American Revolution changed the against during American Revolution? 8.3.12.D (5), 6.4.9.D (3),
• Identify the differences between Athens history? (4), 8.1.12.D (4), 8.4.9.A (1), 8.4.9.C (4), Revolution in the American Colonies world 2. What were the French rebelling against 6.5.12.B, 6.5.12.F
and Sparta 2. Why did the Greeks want to defeat the Persian 8.4.9.D (5) 5.3.9.K (3), 5.3.12.K (2), The American Revolutionary War • Causes of the French Revolution during the French Revolution
• The importance of Alexander the Great Empire? 8.4.9.A (3), 8.4.9.B (1), 8.4.9.B (2) The French Revolution • The Reign of Terror 3. What is one way in which the American
• Contributions that ancient Greek made 3. What are three contributions the Greek 8.4.9.A (1), 8.4.9.B (1), 8.4.9.C (3), Revolutionary Reforms and Terror in France • Accomplishments and failures of Napoleon Revolution changed Europe and one
to world civilization civilization made to the world? 8.4.9.C (4) Napoleon and the French Empire way in which the French Revolution
changed Europe?
1 week Chapter 21: Reaction, Reforms, and • Purpose and outcome in the Congress of 1. What is nationalism? 8.1.12.C (5), 8.3.12.D (5),
Revolutions: 1814 to 1850 Vienna 2. Why did the leaders at the Congress of 8.4.12.A (1) 5.4.9.B, 5.4.9.C,
• The organization of the Roman 1. Explain how each of the following was important 5.1.9.B, 5.1.9.C (3), 5.3.9.K (4), 5.3.12.K The Congress of Vienna Meets • Differences between radicals, conservatives, Vienna fear nationalism? 5.4.12.B, 5.4.12.E (1), 7.3.12.B
Republican form of government for the Roman Republic: two consuls; the (4) 6.2.12.F (1), 6.4.12.B, 8.4.9.A (1), Nationalism Becomes Powerful and liberals 3. How did events in France in the (1), 8.4.12.D (2)
• Define the term republic senate; the veto; the tribunes; the Law of the 5.1.9.B (1), 5.1.12.B, 8.4.9.A (2), 8.4.9.B Wars for Independence in Latin America • The ideas of socialists ninetieth century influence other
• How Rome lost its republican form of Twelve Tables (2) 8.4.9.B (1), 8.4.9.C (4), 8.4.9.D (1) New Revolution and Reform in Europe • Wars of national liberation in the 19th century European and colonial revolutionaries?
government 2. What was one difference between the patricians 8.4.9.C (4), 8.4.9.D (1), 8.4.9.D (5) The Year of Revolutions - 1848
and the plebeians?
3. Why did the Roman patricians need the Roman 2 weeks Chapter 22: Nationalism and Imperialism: • Characteristics of nationalism and imperialism 1. What is imperialism? 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.C (4),
plebeians? 1840 to 1914 • Larders of Italian unification of Germany 2. Which countries became imperial 8.4.12.D (5) 7.1.9.B (4), 8.4.12.C
Strategies 10 Themes of NCSS Nationalism
Growing Nationalism in Italy
The Unification of Germany
• Reasons and effects of imperialism on Asia
and China
powers during nineteenth century? (3), 8.4.12.C (4), 8.4.12.D (5)
8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.C (4),
8.4.12.D (5)
• Distinguish Rome good and emperors 1. In what ways were the Romans a practical 7.1.9.B (5), 7.3.9.A (3), 7.3.9.B(2), Imperialism
• How did the Roman Empire treat Jewish people? 7.3.9.C (1) 7.4.9.B (1), 8.1.9.A (4), The Effect of Imperialism on Asia
children 2. Why did the Roman Empire decline and then 8.1.9.C (4), 8.4.9.B (2) 7.1.12.B (3),
• Major conflict between Rome and fall? 7.3.12.B (2), 7.4.9.B (1), 8.4.9.B (2) Culture The Effect of Imperialism on Africa
Concept definition map, frayer model, semantic feature analysis, semantic mapping,
Christians 1 week Chapter 23: World War 1: 1914 to 1919 1. What were the causes of World War I?
• Reasons for the decline of the Roman
Empire
Vocabulary everyday vocab (flash cards, word wall, vocab checks), and prefix/suffix/root The Causes of the War
The War Years: 1914 – 1918
2. What were three terms of the Treaty of
Versailles?
Making Peace 3. What were three economic effects of
World War I Changed the World World War I?
Time, Continuity, and Change
Second
Second 9 weeks
9 weeks Analysis- primary documents, artifacts, political cartoons, map analysis, written Fourth 9 weeks
Fourth 9 weeks
Concept Essential Question Standards documents, motion picture, photographs, posters, speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Time Content Concept Essential Question Standards
• Compare the Byzantine and the 1. Why did Constantine call 5.1.9.B (1), 5.1.9.B (2), 5.1.9.E (1), graphs, charts 1 week Chapter 24: The Russian Revolution and the Communist • Life in czarist Russia 1. Why did the Russians revolt 5.1.12.B, 5.1.12.C 7.4.9.B (1),
People, Places, and Environments
Roman Empires
• Why historians call this period the
Constantinople the “new Rome”?
2. What is one good thing and one
5.2.9.A (1) 8.1.9.B (5), 8.1.12.4 (2),
8.1.12.A (3) 8.4.9.C (3), 8.4.9.D (2),
Critical Thinking Thinking- propaganda techniques, fallacies of arguments, facts from opinion, point of
Life in Czarist Russia
Russia Moves Toward Revolution
• Causes and effects of the
Communist Revolution
against Czar Nicholas II?
2. What is one way in which life
7.4.12.A (2), 8.4.9.B (2), 8.4.9.B (3),
8.4.9.C (1) 8.1.9.B (5), 8.4.9.B (2),
“dark ages” bad thing that resulted form the 8.4.9.D (5) 8.4.9,8 (1), 8.4.9.B (2), view The Bolsheviks Take Over the Government • Relationship between WWI and improved for the common 8.4.9.B (3) 8.4.9.B (1), 8.4.9.C (3)
• The rule of the Roman Catholic crusades? 84.9.C (4) 6.4.12.D, 7.3.9.A (2), The Soviet Union Under Stalin Communist Revolution person under Stalin?
church in the middle ages in 3. What are the five basic duties 7.3.9.D (2) • Life in the Soviet Union 3. What is one way in which life got
Writing- argument, persuasive • Characteristics of a totalitarian worse for the common person
Europe each Muslim must accept?
• Describe feudalism state under Stalin?
• Cause and effects of the crusades
• Describe the Mayan, Aztec, and
Individual Development and Identity
Incan civilizations of Central 1 week Chapter 25: Revolutions and the Rise of Dictators: 1911 to • Characteristics of a fascist 1. Why did Italy and Germany .4.9.A, 8.4.12.A (2), .2.12, A,
America 1938 government choose fascism and dictators 8.1.12.D (3), 8.4.12.0 (4), .5.12.A (2),
trade books- study guides classroom library, text sets, self-selected reading, group The Fascist Gain Power in Italy • How China became a modern after World War I? 8.1.12.D (4), 8.4.12.C (4), 8.4.12.D
models, teacher read aloud, sustain silent reading, reader response The Nazis Gain Power in Germany nation 2. What are six things Hitler did (3)
Reading textbooks- graphic organizers writing summaries, Cornell note taking, annotations, study
The Chinese Begin to Build A Modern Nation
Military Leaders Take Over in Japan
• How military leaders took over
the Japanese government
when he became the dictator of
Germany?
•
• Compare Buddhism and Hinduism 1. What is one gift India has given 7.1.9.B (5), 7.3.9.A (3), 7.3.9.B(2), Comprehension guides, SQ3R Individuals, Groups, and Institutions
Rise of the Nazi power in
Germany
3. What are four things that
Japan’s government had in
• Why did Japan and China turn to to world civilization? 7.3.9.C (1) 7.4.9.B (1), 8.1.9.A (4), common with Nazi Germany and
isolationism 2. What is one gift China has given 8.1.9.C (4), 8.4.9.B (2) 7.1.12.B (3), general strategies- predict, question, summarize fascist Italy during the 1930s?
• What made ancient China the to world civilization? 7.3.12.B (2), 7.4.9.B (1), 8.4.9.B (2)
richest and most powerful 3. What is one thing that is the 1 week Chapter 26: World War II: 1939 to 1945 • Major causes of WWII 1. What are seven causes of World 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.D (1) 7.3.9.B (1),
country in the world same and one thing that is The basic Causes of World War II • Allie and Axis powers War II? 8.4.12.C (3) 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.B
different between Japanese and Fascism Threatens Other Countries • Failure of the police of 2. What caused the United States (1), 8.4.12.C (1) 6.4.12.G (1), 7.1.9.B
European feudalism?
Standardized Test ACT/SAT, Test preparation, and practice
Power, Authority, and Governance Axis Successes in Europe and Asia
The Tide Turns in Favor of the Allies •
appeasement
Why WWII ended
to stop being neutral and to
enter World War II?
(4), 8.4.12.D (2)
• Why historians use the term
Renaissance for this period
1. How did the Black Death change
Europe?
8.1.12.C (3), 8.1.12.D (4), 8.4.9.A
(3), 8.4.9.B (1) 8.4.12.A (3), 8.4.12.B
Preparation 1 week Chapter 27: The Aftermath of World War II: 1945 to 1955 • Social economic and political 1. What is one social, one 7.1.9.B (4) 6.1.12.D, 8.2.12.A (2),
• The beliefs of humanism 2. Why was Leonardo da Vinci a (1), 8.4.12.B (2) 8.4.12.A (3), Results of World War II results of WWII economic, and one political 8.4.12.D (2) 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.D
• The quality of a Renaissance Renaissance man? 8.4.12.B (1) 8.4.12.A, 8.4.12.C (4), The United Nations • Makeup of the United Nations outcome of World War II? (1) 8.3.12.D (5), 8.4.12.C (3) 8.4.12.A
men and women 8.4.12.D (2) 8.4.12.A (3), 8.4.12.B The Cold War Begins • Beginning of the Cold War What are the six major branches (1), 8.4.12.A (3), 8.4.12.D (1)
(1), 8.4.12.C (4)
Discussion Whole group, small pairs, pairs, debate, role playing, games, simulation, and current events Conflicts Between the Superpowers • Americas role in rebuilding
Europe
of the United Nations and what
do they do?
• The importance of Martin 1. What was one cause of the 6.2.9.E, 6.4.12.A, 6.4.12.B 6.4.9.C, Production, Distribution, and 2. How did the Marshall Plan to
Luther and the reformation Reformation? 8.1.12.D (4), 8.4.12.C (1), 8.4.12.D Consumption help Europe?
• The beliefs of Calvinism 2. How did Calvin's reforms differ (2), 8.4.9.D (4) 6.4.9.C, 8.4.12.C (3),
• The Counter-Reformation of the form Luther’s and Kind Henry 8.4.12.D (2) 7.3.9.B (3), 8.1.12.B (5), Informal- homework, journals, summarizing, letters, editorial, opinion, and observational 1 week Chapter 28: New Nations Emerge: 1946 to 1999 • Countries of Africa gain 1. Why did India divide into two 8.4.9.A (2), 8.4.9.B (2) 8.4.9.B (1),
Many African Colonies Become Nations independence counties? 8.4.9.C (4), 8.4.9.D (1) 8.4.9.C (4),
catholic church VIII’s?
3. What was one thing the Catholic
8.4.12.C (3)
Writing writing A New Nation in the Middle East Brings War
India Gains Its Independence
• Problems between Israelis and
Palatines
2. What two Chinese groups fought
over control of China? Which
8.4.9.D (1), 8.4.9.D (5)
Church did as it tried to counter Formal- 5 paragraph theme, essay question, research paper, biography, and news story
the Reformation? • Events of Vietnam War side won? Why?
• Unifying India 3. Why did the United States fight a
• The five steps of the scientific 1. What are the five steps of the 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.B (2), 8.4.9.D (2) • Control over China war in Vietnam?
method scientific method? 7.1.9.B (3), 7.3.9.B (2), 7.3.9.B (3), Trade books, field trips, competition, clubs, projects, guest speaker, computer, bulletin Science, Technology, and Society
• Copernicus's new theory of the
universe
2. Before Copernicus, what did
most scholars believe about the
8.4.12.D (4) 5.1.9.E (3), 7.3.9.C (1),
8.4.12.B (2), 8.4.12.D (4) 6.4.12.D,
Enrichment boards, maps, cause and effect, timelines, and political cartoons 2 weeks Chapter 29: A Changing World: 1950 to the Present
African Nations Face Many Challenges
•
•
Problems Africa faces today
Conflict in the Middle East
1. What is one problem that
Africa's face today?
7.3.9.B(2), 7.3.9.C (1) 7.4.9.B (1),
8.1.9.A (4), 8.1.9.C (4), 8.4.9.B (2)
• The role Isaac Newton played in earth and the heavens? 8.4.12.D (2) 6.1.12.C, 6.2.12.F (3), The Middle East Remains in Conflict • Why communism fails 2. What is one problem that people 7.1.12.B (3), 7.3.12.B (2), 7.4.9.B (1),
the history of science 3. How did Newton build on the 6.4.12.B Asians Countries Face Economic Challenges • Problems in Latin America in the Middle East face today? 8.4.9.B (2)
work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Reforming the Soviet Union • Change in Europe and Asian 3. What is one problem that people
Galileo?
Interdisciplinary Art, music, architecture, technology, drama, poem, language, and culture
Global Connections and Geography
Europe Experiences Great Change
Latin American Struggles to Overcome Its Problems
countries in Asia face today?
• Compare feudalism and 1. What is the difference between 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.A (2), 8.4.12.B 1 week Chapter 30: A New Century Begins: 1990 to the Present • Importance of global trade 1. What is one way that mass 8.4.9.< (4). 7.3.9.B (2), 8.1.9.C (3),
nationalism feudalism and nationalism? (1), 8.4.12.D (5) 5.1.9.A, 5.3.9.K, The Earth As a Global Village • Environmental problems communication has helped 8.4.9.B (2) 6.4.9.B, 6:4.12.D, 7.3.9.D
• Rule by “divine right” 2. What does ruling by “diving 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.B (2), 8.4.12.B Energy and Technology Create the Global Village • Economic interdependence of create a global village? (2), 8.4.9.A (25, 8.4.9.B (1)
• England’s constitutional right” mean? (3) 5.1.9.C (1), 5.1.9.E (2), 8.1.9.D Global Trade and Economic Development modern industrial nations and 2. What is one source of energy
•
monarchy
Rise and fall of Spain
3. What is the difference between
and absolute monarchy and a
(4), 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.D (1),
8.4.12.D (5) 8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.C
Differentiated Very process (different methods), content (materials), and products (assessments)
Global Environmental Concerns
•
developing countries
New technology
that may be safe and may not
pollute our environment
• How Prussia became powerful constitutional monarchy? (4), 8.4.12.D (5) 5.3.12.K (1), 3. What is one problem that
Civic Ideals and Practices
8.4.12.A (1), 8.4.12.D (5) Instruction Student diversity and characteristics, (RTI) Response To Intervention developing countries
have?