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First Nine Weeks
1A. Essential Question: How did the movement of people and the
Neolithic Revolution lead to the development of ancient civilizations?
Illustrate the movement of people over time to different locations
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using historical maps
Describe the effects of mass migrations on civilization (e.g.,
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Bantu, Great Trek, Irish, Vietnamese)
Examine the effects of the Neolithic revolution on society
(e.g., domestication of plants and animals, increased population,
changing technologies)
1B. Essential Question: What are the common characteristics of
ancient civilizations?
Summarize the development of political structures in the cradles
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Mesopotamia, China, and South America)
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1. Enduring
Understanding:
Emerging Ancient
Civilizations exhibit
common
characteristics in
their development.
Explain the characteristics of a civilization:
calendar
writing
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specialization of workers
rise of cities
advanced technology
development of complex institutions
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Examine the key concepts and historical significance of five
major religions:
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Examine the spread of the major religions using historical maps:
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Examine the key concepts and historical significance of three
major Eastern philosophies:

Confucianism

Daoism

Legalism
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Summarize political power resulting from the following:
Mandate of Heaven
1. Enduring
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divine right
Understanding:
Emerging Ancient
absolutism
Civilizations exhibit
Describe the contributions of early Asian civilizations (e.g., Zhou,
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common
Qin, Han, Indo-European)
characteristics in
Investigate historical law codes using primary and secondary
their development.
PG.10.WH.1 documents e.g., Hammurabi, Justinian, Magna Carta,
Napoleonic)
2A . Essential Question: How did geography, political theories, and
philosophy define the development of Greek city-states?
Compare and contrast the political theories found in the Greek
2. Enduring
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Understanding:
city-states of Sparta and Athens
The rise and fall of
Explain the contributions of Greek philosophers to Western
the empires result
thought using primary and secondary sources:
from many factors, SMR.1.WH.3
Socrates – Socratic method
including religion
Plato – The Republic
and economics.
Aristotle
Investigate the changing roles of women using primary and
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secondary sources
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Second Nine Weeks
2. Enduring
Understanding:
The rise and fall of
the empires result
from many factors,
including religion
and economics.
2B. Essential Question: What factors led to the rise and fall of the
Roman Empire?
Analyze the effect of the Punic Wars on transforming Rome from
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Republic to Empire
Explain the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire (e.g.,
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economic, political, military)
Compare and contrast the Reformation and the CounterCC.3.WH.3
Reformation (e.g., religious, economic, political)
Investigate the effects of the collapse of the Roman Empire on
CC.4.WH.2 civilization (e.g., barbarian invasions, changing structure of the
church, the Byzantine Empire)
Investigate historical law codes using primary and secondary
PG.10.WH.1 documents (e.g., Hammurabi, Justinian, Magna Carta,
Napoleonic)
3A. Essential Question: What are the similarities and differences
between Judaism and Christianity?
Examine the key concepts and historical significance of five
Buddhism
Christianity
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Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Examine the spread of the major religions using historical maps:
Buddhism
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Christianity
3. Enduring
Hinduism
Understanding:
Islam
Although the three
Judaism
Abrahamic religions
3B. Essential Question: How did the development of Islam lead to
share common
roots, each religion
changes in Arabia and the Middle East?
developed
independently.
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Examine the key concepts and historical significance of five
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Examine the spread of the major religions using historical maps:
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Discuss theocracy (e.g., John Calvin, Puritans, Islam)
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4. Enduring
Understanding:
Early civilizations
contributed to the
continental
development of
Africa and the
Americas.
4. Essential Question: How were the development of Africa and the
Americas affected by early civilizations?
Describe the contributions of early African civilizations (e.g.,
Ghana, Mali, Songhai)
Investigate the cultures that developed in the Americas prior to
MS.6.WH.2 European exploration (e.g., Maya, Inca, Aztec, and North
American Indian tribes)
5A. Essential Question: How did Japanese feudalism affect their
relations with mainland Asia?
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Compare and contrast the political structure of European and
Japanese feudalism
5B. Essential Question: How did the Mongolian Empire affect the
development of Asia?
Compare and contrast the consequences of the Mongol invasion
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on India, China, and Russia
Investigate the significance of the Silk Road using historical
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maps
6A. Essential Question: What factors led to the rise and fall of
feudalism in Europe?
Compare and contrast the political structure of European and
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Japanese feudalism
Investigate historical law codes using primary and secondary
PG.10.WH.1 documents (e.g., Hammurabi, Justinian, Magna Carta,
6. Enduring
Napoleonic)
Understanding:
Research the effects of the Black Death on Medieval and early
Medieval European
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society was shaped
Renaissance society (e.g., population, economics, religion)
by disease, warfare, 6B. Essential Question: How did the Crusades affect the Middle Ages?
5. Enduring
Understanding:
Mongolian warfare
and economics
influenced the
development of Asia.
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and class structure.
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Investigate the causes of the Crusades (e.g., religious,
economic, military, political)
Explain the consequences of the Crusades (e.g., decline in
feudalism, increase in trade, shifting political power)
Describe the causes of mass migration (e.g., famine, disease,
war, religious persecution, ethnic cleansing)
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Third Nine Weeks
7A. Essential Question: What factors contributed to the European
Renaissance?
Research the effects of the Black Death on Medieval and early Renaissance
society (e.g., population, economics, religion)
Analyze key elements of the Renaissance:

Humanism
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
revival of interest in ancient Greece and Rome

changing artistic styles (e.g., music, architecture, literature)
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7. Enduring
Understanding:
The rebirth of
learning during the
Renaissance led to
the Reformation.
7B. Essential Question: How the invention of the printing press and the
ideas of the Renaissance spur the Reformation in Europe?
Describe the role of the printing press in the spread of ideas:
availability of books
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increased literacy
Reformation
Compare and contrast the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation (e.g.,
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religious, economic, political)
PG.9.WH.7 Discuss theocracy (e.g., John Calvin, Puritans, Islam)
8A. Essential Question: How did the effects of the Renaissance lead to
contributions made during the Scientific Revolution and the
Enlightenment?
Evaluate the effect of the Renaissance on subsequent events in Europe:
Reformation
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exploration
8. Enduring
Enlightenment
Understanding:
Scientific Revolution
The creative thinking
Explain notable contributions made by individuals during the Scientific
of the Renaissance SMR.1.WH.6
Revolution (e.g., Copernicus, Newton, Galileo, Bacon)
led to the Age of
Explain notable contributions made by individuals during the Enlightenment
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Reason.
(e.g., Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu)
8B. Essential Question: What political powers developed during the
Age of Reason?
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Summarize political power resulting from the following:
divine right
absolutism
9A. Essential Question: What were the motivations and contributions
of European explorers?
9. Enduring
Understanding:
European
exploration led to
American
colonization and the
establishment of
slave trade.
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Research the motivations which drove European exploration (e.g.,
mercantilism, colonialism , religion)
Analyze the contributions of explorers (e.g., Magellan, Columbus, De Gama,
Drake, Zheng He)
Describe the causes of mass migration (e.g., famine, disease, war, religious
persecution, ethnic cleansing)
9B. Essential Question: How did the slave trade affect the Americas?
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Analyze the results of slave labor on economic systems
Describe the effects of mass migrations on civilization: Bantu
Discuss the spread of forced labor (e.g., American Indians, Africa)
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10A. Essential Question: Why were the people motivated to rebel
against established governments and form new, independent nations?
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Analyze the causes of the 18th and 19th century revolutions (e.g., liberalism,
nationalism, imperialism )
Describe the political ideologies of the 18th and 19th century revolutions using
primary and secondary documents
(e.g., American, French, and Latin American revolutions)
Analyze the effect of revolution on the creation of independent nation-states
(e.g., American Revolution, French Revolution, unification of Germany,
unification of Italy, and Latin American independence movements)
10. Enduring
Understanding:
The Age of Reason
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inspired revolutions
during the 18th and CC.4.WH.13 Analyze the responses to imperialism by people under colonial rule at the end
19th centuries.
of the 19th century (e.g., Boxer Rebellion, Sepoy Rebellion, Opium Wars, Zulu
Wars)
10B. Essential Question: How did Napoleon affect European politics?
Summarize the consequences of the Napoleonic Wars (e.g., the Louisiana
Purchase, the Congress of Vienna)
Investigate historical law codes using primary and secondary documents (e.g.,
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Hammurabi, Justinian, Magna Carta, Napoleonic)
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11A. Essential Question: What were the social, economic, and political
factors of the Industrial Revolution?
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11. Enduring
Understanding:
Imperialism and the
modern world were
created by the
Industrial
Revolution.
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ET.7.WH.7
Describe the four factors of production necessary to foster an industrial
revolution:

natural resources

human resources

capital resources

entrepreneurship
Analyze the development of mass production methods during the late 19th and
early 20th centuries:

division of labor

assembly line

interchangeable parts
Summarize the Marxist theory of social and political reform (e.g., proletariat,
bourgeoisie)
Compare and contrast the economic elements of capitalism, socialism, and
communism
11B. Essential Question: Which European nations established imperial
states and influenced colonization?
Investigate the origin and development of the imperial state:
Africa
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Asia
Europe
Middle East
Analyze the responses to imperialism by people under colonial rule at the end
CC.4.WH.13 of the 19th century (e.g., Boxer Rebellion, Sepoy Rebellion, Opium Wars, Zulu
Wars)
Investigate the role 19th century imperialism played in creating spheres of
ET.7.WH.6 influence and colonization (e.g., partition of Africa, East Asia, India, Latin
America)
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Fourth Nine Weeks
12. Essential Question: What were the causes and consequences of
World War I?
CC.3.WH.5 Analyze the causes of World War I (e.g., alliances , imperialism , nationalism ,
militarism )
PG.10.WH.2 Research the formation of alliances in World War I and World War II using
12. Enduring
available technology (e.g., Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, Axis and Allies)
Understanding:
CC.4.WH.7 Examine the consequences of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles:
World War I was the

changing national boundaries
first true global

advances in military technology
conflict.

deterioration of Germany

the League of Nations
CC.4.WH.6 Summarize the consequences of the Russian Revolution
(e.g., Russian Civil War, withdrawal from World War I, end of Czarist rule)
MS.5.WH.3 Describe the effects of mass migrations on civilization (e.g., Bantu, Great
Trek, Irish, Vietnamese)
13. Enduring
13. Essential Question: What factors contributed to nations becoming
Understanding:
World War II was
involved in World War II?
brought on by
various causes
PG.9.WH.8 Examine the political theories of socialism, communism, and fascism
which included
development of new CC.3.WH.6 Analyze the causes of World War II (e.g., Treaty of Versailles, the Great
Depression, rise of dictators)
governments,
economic
Research the formation of alliances in World War I and World War II using
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conditions, and
available technology
political alliances.
14A. Essential Question: What political and military alliances
developed after World War II?
Examine the outcomes of World War II:
creation of United Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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advances in technology
creation of satellite nations
14. Enduring
Cold War
Understanding:
Analyze
the purpose of post-World War II military alliances
Post-World War II
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[e.g.,
North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Southeast Asia Treaty
politics led
Organization
(SEATO), Warsaw Pact]
superpowers into a
Analyze
the
structure
and purpose of the United Nations
struggle for world PG.10.WH.3
power that became
14B. Essential Question: How were world politics affected by the
known as the Cold
War
superpowers during the Cold War?
Research the causes of the Cold War using available technology
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(e.g., ideological differences between the United States and the U.S.S.R.)
Investigate the effects of the Cold War on the post-World War II era
CC.4.WH.10 (e.g., emerging superpowers, containment policies, space race, arms race)
CC.4.WH.11 Discuss the post-Cold War era (e.g., Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty,
glasnost, perestroika , fall of Berlin Wall)
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15A. Essential Question: What factors contributed to nations
becoming involved in World War II?
CC.4.WH.9 Investigate the world-wide effect of genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries
15. Enduring
using available technology (e.g., Armenia, Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia,
Understanding:
Rwanda, Kosovo, Sudan)
Extremist groups
create ongoing
15B. Essential Question: What are the consequences of the instability
conflicts among
in the Middle East that has created extremist groups?
nations of the world.
CC.4.WH.12 Investigate the consequences of the Arab - Israeli conflicts from 1948 to the
present
CC.3.WH.8 Analyze the role extremist groups have played in creating world instability
16. Enduring
Understanding:
Nations depend on
one another to
create economic
stability.
16. Essential Question: What organizations have developed among
nations to improve trade relations.
ET.8.WH.3 Describe economic interdependence of nations
[e.g., North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), World Trade
Organization (WTO), General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT),
European Economic Union (EEU), Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC)]
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