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World History Proficiencies Goals: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the major events in modern world history. 2. Trace four key themes in the development of world history and understand their impact on the present and their implications for the future: a. The interactions among world civilizations in the modern era b. Development of representative government, democratic citizenship, and individual rights in the modern era c. Development of nation-states and nationalism d. The rise of Western global dominance: the growth of the economic and imperial power of the Western world. 3. Read critically as historians do, evaluating sources, placing readings in historical context, and using primary sources to corroborate or challenge historical interpretations. 4. Communicate an understanding of history in oral, written, and multimedia formats. 5. Develop an awareness of current issues that pose challenges for the global community. Readings: Students will download a World History iBook onto their laptops. Additional primary source readings and secondary essays by leading historians will be accessed from Haiku FIRST SEMESTER Introduction: Thinking Historically Proficiencies Students will be able to 1. Understand the distinction between primary and secondary sources. 2. Define sourcing questions, context questions, and corroboration questions. 3. Understand the elements of an effective history paragraph. Unit 1: Globalization 1.0 Proficiencies: Students will be able to… 1. Identify and describe economic, religious, and political factors that led to the first era of globalization: the age of exploration. 2. Evaluate the role of technological innovations in exploration. 3. Describe Portugal and Spain’s first voyages of exploration and the alternative routes explored by France, England, and the Netherlands. 4. Describe the world civilizations Europeans encountered as they explored and assess the impact of Chinese, Islamic, and West African civilizations on European exploration. 5. Describe the colonial empires established by Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and England in the Americas. 6. Explain the factors that led to the origins of the Atlantic slave trade and assess its impact on individuals and societies. 7. Assess the impact of disease on conquest and colonization. 8. Explain the concept of the Columbian exchange; give examples, and evaluate its impact on Europe, Africa, and the Americas. 9. Explain the concept of the commercial revolution and describe the system of global trade that placed Europe at the center of things. 10. Discuss the importance of trade and empire as a measure of national power and describe how the policy of mercantilism related to national goals. Unit 2: Renaissance and Reformation Proficiencies Students will be able to 1. Define the term "Renaissance" and describe factors that explain its origins in Italy. 2. Define the concept of "humanism" and explain how the values of the Renaissance gave renewed importance to the individual. 3. Identify major Renaissance writers and their important works; explain how they reflect the values of the Renaissance and focus on issues of importance to Renaissance thinkers. 4. Identify characteristics of Renaissance art, comparing and contrasting Renaissance art with the art of the Middle Ages and classical Greece. Illustrate the characteristics of Renaissance art using specific artists and works of art from the High Renaissance. 5. Assess the role of technology in spreading new ideas during the 6. 7. 8. 9. era of the Renaissance and Reformation. Explain how scientists challenged both ancient beliefs and Church teaching about the origins of the universe; identify the important scientists who presented a new model of the universe. Describe the background causes of the Protestant Reformation, evaluating impact of (1) problems within the Catholic Church, (2) political issues that contributed to the split, (3) social and technological factors that played a role in the Reformation, Assess the role of Martin Luther and John Calvin in the Reformation; identify disagreements with the Catholic Church that led them to break away, evaluate the social and political impacts of Protestant ideas, show on a map the geographic division of Christianity that resulted from the Protestant Reformation. Explain the political problems that led Henry VIII to seek a divorce, the religious tensions that emerged under his children, and the compromise Church of England that emerged during the reign of Elizabeth I. Unit 3: English Revolution and the Enlightenment Proficiencies Students will be able to 1. Explain the importance of the Magna Carta and the Model Parliament in limiting royal power and establishing constitutional government. 2. Explain the clash over political power between James I and Charles I and Parliament and assess the importance of other factors such as religion and economic issues. 3. List and explain the events that led to the outbreak of the English Civil War under Charles I and identify the factors that led to Parliament’s victory in the Civil War. 4. Describe the changes instituted by Cromwell and explain why England restored the monarchy under Charles II. 5. Explain why a second revolt erupted during the reign of James II and evaluate the Glorious Revolution as a triumph of Parliament over royal power and for individual rights. 6. Summarize the Enlightenment outlook and describe the impact of the English and Scientific revolutions on Enlightenment thinking. 7. Describe the ideas of the major philosophes (Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, Beccaria) and assess their contributions to the Enlightenment ideas about government and law. 8. Assess Enlightenment attitudes toward women and explain how Mary Wollstonecraft challenged these ideas. 9. Explain how the Enlightenment changed ideas about the role of the individual in society. Unit 4: French Revolution Proficiencies Students will be able to 1. Analyze political, social, and economic background causes of the French Revolution, evaluating the common and separate grievances of the Third Estate. 2. Identify and describe the key events of 1789 and evaluate the Revolution of 1789 as a widespread popular revolt that drew support from a broad range of groups in France. 3. Define political positions on the “political spectrum.” 4. Evaluate the positive achievements of the moderate revolution as well as the problems that led to its fall. 5. Explain the Reign of Terror as a radical phase of the French Revolution and decide to what extent the radical revolution betrayed the ideals of the French Revolution. 6. Assess the factors that led to the rise of Napoleon and evaluate his actions as the leader of France. 7. Analyze the factors that led to Napoleon’s fall from power. 8. Discuss the impact of Napoleon on the spread of nationalism and of revolutionary ideas in Nineteenth Century Europe. 9. Describe the political re-organization of post-Napoleonic Europe and assess the success and failure of the goals of the Congress of Vienna. SECOND SEMESTER Unit 5: Machine Culture and the Industrial Revolution Students will be able to 1. Understand the significance of the industrial revolution as a turning point in history. 2. Explain why the industrial revolution began in Great Britain. 3. Assess the economic and social impact of industrialization. 4. Evaluate the impact of unions and political reforms on the lives of the working classes in Britain 5. Describe and contrast the fundamental principles of laissez-faire capitalism and the leading figures associated with it. 6. Identify the aims of Utopian socialism and explain its limitations as a system that could improve the lives of many workers. 7. Identify the key principles of Marxism, contrast Marxism with utopian socialism and with capitalism, and critique the ideas of Karl Marx. 8. Describe the process of reform that gradually extended the right to vote in Britain to all adults. 9. Describe the removal of social and economic barriers for women in Great Britain. Unit 6: The New Imperialism: the West and the World Proficiencies Students will be able to 1. Compare and contrast “old colonialism” with “New Imperialism.” 2. Analyze the background causes of the New Imperialism, and evaluate the role technology played in 19th century empire building. 3. Assess the motivations of the individual Great Powers and evaluate the role of economics as a background cause of imperialism. 4. Explain how Great Power rivalries led to the “scramble for Africa;” evaluate the roles played by competing national interests and changing geopolitical realities. 5. Assess the short-term impacts and long-term consequences of African imperialism on African peoples. 6. Explain the role of the “Indian Mutiny” in Britain’s decision to impose more direct and formal forms of imperial control. 7. Trace the origins in the 19th and growth in the 20th century of Indian nationalism and assess the role of Gandhi. 8. Identify and explain the factors that weakened the Qing Dynasty by the nineteenth century. 9. Explain the economic motivations that led to the Opium Wars and identify and explain the “unequal treaties” imposed on China. 10. Describe the goals of the Meiji Restoration and analyze the methods employed by Japan to achieve their modernizing project. Unit 7: The Great War Students will be able to 1. Evaluate the impact of the unification of Germany on the balance of power in Europe and on France. 2. Analyze the background and immediate causes of World War I. 3. Evaluate the impact of technology and new weapons on the nature of the fighting and on the course of the war. 4. Understand the factors that led to the entrance of the U.S. and the exit of Russia. 5. Explain the factors that led to the conclusion of the war. 6. Analyze the goals Woodrow Wilson and the other members of the “Big Four” at the Paris Peace Conference. 7. Describe the key provisions of the Treaty of Versailles and assess its impact on Germany and for Europe in the inter-war period. 8. Identify changes to the map of Europe and the Middle East at the end of the Great War. 9. Evaluate the impact of the contradictory promises made by the Allies regarding the future of Ottoman lands after the war. 10. Contrast the creation of Turkey and Saudi Arabia with the establishment of Iraq; identify sectarian and ethnic problems in ignored by the British. 11. Evaluate Britain’s handling of its “mandate” in Palestine. 12. Explain how the failure of the UN Partition plan was the beginning of a sixty-year failure to find a “two-state solution” for Arabs and Jews. Unit 8: Totalitarianism and Total War Proficiencies Students will be able to 1. Explain long-standing problems in Russia that set the stage for revolution. 2. Evaluate the role of World War I and the mistakes made by Nicholas and Alexandra that led to the first Russian Revolution. 3. List and describe errors made by Kerensky and the provisional government that led the Bolshevik Revolution. 4. Assess Lenin’s role in the successful establishment of a Marxist revolution in Russia. 5. List and describe key characteristics of a totalitarian state. 6. Describe the steps taken by Stalin to strengthen a totalitarian system in the Soviet Union. 7. Explain the factors that allowed Hitler to rise to power in Germany. 8. Analyze the ways Hitler consolidated his power and established a totalitarian state in Germany. 9. Trace the aggressive steps Hitler took in the 1930s that led Europe to war in 1939. 10. Define appeasement and assess the response of the Allies to Hitler’s aggression. 11. Trace the course of the Holocaust from pre-war harassment and legal restrictions through the genocide of the “Final Solution.”