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Subject/Course: World History and Geography 1st Semester

Grade Level 10th
Weeks

Essential Question

2-3

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?

WHG:
F1
F2
F3
F4

4.

How have religions

influenced human
society?

Content

Foundations
of World
History:
Eras 1-3,
Beginnings
to 300 C.E.

Essential Concepts

Key Terms

1.) Periodization
-Spatial frames

1 & 2. Chronology
Evidence
Artifact
Primary source
Secondary source
Point of view
Bias
Periodization
Interregional
Cultural diffusion
Gender roles
Kinship

2.) Cultural interaction

-Political structure
-Economic structure
-Social structure
-Human environment/interaction
3.) Hunter gatherer
-Pastoral nomad
-Domestication
-Civilization
-Empires

3.Hunter-gatherers
Culture
Domestication
Sedentary
Pastoral Nomads
Cultural Diffusion
Civilization
Hierarchy
City-State
Interregional
Dynasty
Absolute Monarch
Direct Democracy
Empire
Republic

4.) Monotheism
-Polytheism
-Hinduism
-Judaism
-Confucianism
-Buddhism
-Christianity
-Islam

4. Monotheism
Covenant
Torah
Jewish Diaspora
Polytheism
Apostles
Resurrection
Quran

Best Practices
for Teaching
Discussions
Q&A
Lectures
Group work
Individual
projects
Map/charts
Overhead
Research
paper
PowerPoint

Resources

Assessment

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
4-5
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 alIslam
-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

1. Millennium
Epidemic
Autonomy
Afro-Eurasia
Orthodox
Christianity
Mesoamerica
Caliph
Shia
Sunni
Sufis
Dar al-Islam
Khan
Pax Mongolica
Bubonic Plague
Crusades
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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5. ) Trans-Saharan trade
-Compare/Contrast Ghana &
Mali
6.) Compare/Contrastcivilization in the Americas

Bureaucracy
Warlords
Aristocracy
Civil Service
Examination
Meritocracy
5. Matrilineal
Trans-Saharan
Trade
6. Dialect
Pictograph
Suspension Bridges

7-8
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,
15th - 18th
Centuries

1.) Emerging global systems

-Movement of religions & ideas
-Networks
-Exploration & Impacts
-Sea travel
-Columbian Exchange
-European Exploration
-Slave Trade
-Compare/ContrastAtlantic/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
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Lectures
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projects
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paper
PowerPoint

Text
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Unit Exam
Quizzes
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Presentations

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3.) Renaissance
-Reformation
-Scientific Revolution
-Enlightenment

Czar
Boyars
Serf

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

3 Humanism
Reformation
Scientific revolution
Enlightenment
Secular
Vernacular
Indulgences
Heresy
Excommunication
Protestant
Denomination
CounterReformation
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