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WORLD HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
COURSE SYLLABUS
--History teaches everything including the future.
Lamartine
--God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
Ambrose Bierce
--"History" is a Greek word which means, literally, just "investigation."
Arnold Toynbee
--The writing of history reflects the interests and even prejudices of a given generation.
John Hope Franklin
--History, by appraising..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge the future.
Thomas Jefferson
OBJECTIVE: To examine and evaluate the ancient and modern cultures of the
world in order to better understand our past as well as our future.....
STUDENT EXPECTATIONS:
1. Respect yourself, your peers, and the learning environment
2. Follow the Jim Ned Student Code of Conduct
3. Be PREPARED!!!!
GRADING PROCEDURES:
Categories:
Exams
40%
Quizzes
20%
Daily Work
Projects
Participation
20%
10%
10%
**If absent....it is the responsibility of the STUDENT to acquire all assignmnets
missed that day!!!!!
MATERIALS:
Every Day.....bring your textbook, a pen and paper, and the notion that you
live in the greatest country and are given more opportunity to excel
and achieve than most other students....SO TAKE ADVANTAGE!!!!!
(Map Colors will be useful when labeling maps!!!)
COURSE OUTLINE:
I. The Rise of Civilizations
--Human Beginnings, Early Civilizations, Kingdoms in the Middle East
II. Flowering of Civilizations
--Rise of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, India's River Valley, Chinese Dynasties
III. Regional Civilizations
--Byzantines, Islamic Civilizations, the Middle Ages, the Americas
IV. Emergence of the Modern World
--Renaissance and Reformation, Empires of Asia, the Monarchs
V. Age of Revolution
--Scientific Revolution, English and American Revolutions, French Revolution
VI. Industry and Nationalism
--Age of Industry, Cultural Revolutions, Democracy, Nationalism, Imperialsim
VII. World in Conflict
--WWI, Great Depression, WWII
VIII. The Contemporary World
--Cold War, Regional Change, the World in Transition, Modern Age