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World History Course Rationale
Students understand the present more thoroughly when they understand the roots of today’s world in
light of their knowledge of the past. World History explores the development of civilizations over time
and the relationships between the past and events taking place today. Focusing on significant social,
economic, and political movements of the past and their relationship to the world today. World History
provides an overview of major ideals, attitudes, values, beliefs, and expectations that characterize areas
and eras of the world throughout history.
World History Course Description
This course will explore the heritage of the Renaissance in Europe, the rise and fall of monarchies and
the ensuring political and industrial revolutions. Students will also investigate imperialism, the world
wars of the twentieth century, and the sociopolitical realties of the modern world. Students will analyze
the interaction and mutual influence occurring between civilizations as well as the technological and
intellectual developments that have had a major impact on world civilizations.
UNITS OF STUDY
SEMESTER 1:
Unit 1: Emergence of a Global Age
Unit 2: Exploration and Isolation
Unit 3: Absolutism, Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
Unit 4: The Age of Revolutions
SEMESTER 2:
Unit 5: The Industrial Revolution and Its Effect
Unit 6: Nationalism and Imperialism
Unit 7: World War I and the Russian Revolution
Unit 8: World War II and Rebuilding Japan
Unit 9: Exploration of Current Regional Themes
World History
Unit Information
First Semester:
Unit 1: Emergence of a Global Age
Enduring Understandings:
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Economic and political systems are structured to meet the needs and wants of different
societies.
Regional and global trade networks impact world populations.
Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific significant event, or turning point.
Religion can be a guiding force for political change or conquest.
Belief systems can both unite and divide people.
Individuals can influence world events.
Students Should Know About:
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Religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Effects of the Crusades and 100 Years War
Causes and effects of the Black Death
Italian city-states
Renaissance
Reformation
Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism
Rise and decline of the Ottoman and Moghul Empires
Unit 2: Exploration and Isolation
Enduring Understandings:
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Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific turning point.
Cultural diffusion and physical geography affect history.
Economic and political systems are structured to meet the needs and wants of different societies.
Regional and global trade networks impact world populations.
Students Should Know About:
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Geography and technology of global explorers
Motivations for exploration
Encounters with Africans, Americans, and Europeans in the Western hemisphere
Columbian Exchange
Commercial Revolution
Portuguese exploration
Spain in the Americas
Dutch East India Company
Atlantic slave trade
Ming Dynasty
Europeans in China and Japan
Unification of Japan
Unit 3: Absolutism, Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
Enduring Understandings:
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Monarchs believed their power to rule came from belief divine right.
Belief systems can both united and divide people.
New technologies can change people, places and regions.
There is a connection between the thinking Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.
Enlightenment theories challenged the belief of Divine Right and Absolutism.
Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific significant event, or turning point.
Individuals can influence world events.
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Discoveries during the Scientific Revolution
Absolute monarchs
English Civil War
Glorious Revolution
Enlightenment thinkers
Effects of Enlightenment
Spreading of the Enlightenment
Unit 4: The Age of Revolutions
Enduring Understandings:
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Economic and political systems are structured to meet the needs and wants of different societies.
Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific significant event, or turning point.
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Individuals can influence world events.
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Causes and outcomes of the Revolution in France
Events during the French Revolution
Effects of the French Revolution
Napoleon
Congress of Vienna
Haitian Revolution
Revolutions in Latin America
World History
Unit Information
Second Semester
Unit 5: The Industrial Revolution and Its Effect
Enduring Understandings:
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Economic and political systems are structured to meet the needs and wants of different societies.
Physical and human geography affect people and places.
Technological change affects people and places.
Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific significant event, or turning point.
Individuals can influence world events.
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Preconditions in England and western Europe
Technological advances and inventors
Changes because of the Industrial Revolution
The new factory city
Resistance to industrialization
Ideologies, classes and social movements
Unit 6: Nationalism and Imperialism
Enduring Understandings:
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Belief systems can both unite and divide people.
Individuals influence world events.
Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific significant event, or turning point.
Economic and political systems are structured to meet the needs and wants of different
societies.
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Unification of Italy
Unification of Japan
Economic costs of imperialism
Imperialist ideology
European colonialism and rivalries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Japanese imperialism
Russo-Japanese War
Opium War
Taping Rebellion
Sino-Japanese War
Boxer Rebellion
Nationalists movements in China
Imperialism in India
Resistance to Imperialism
Unit 7: World War I and the Russian Revolution
Enduring Understandings:
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Conflicts between nations and/or people is inevitable.
Belief systems can both united and divide people.
Individuals influence world events.
New technologies can change people, places and regions.
Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific event, or turning point.
Students Should Know About:
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Causes of WWI
Military plans and their failures
Effect of total war on the European home front
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Conflicts and compromises of the Paris Peace Conferences, Treaty of Versailles and the League
of Nations
New nations in Easter and Central Europe
Issues in Russia
Revolutions in Russia
Unit 8: World War II and Rebuilding Japan
Enduring Understandings:
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Conflicts between nations and/or people is inevitable.
Belief systems can both united and divide people.
Individuals influence world events.
New technologies can change people, places and regions.
Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific significant events, or turning point
Students Should Know About:
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Rise of militarism and totalitarianism states in the West and East
Role of propaganda in totalitarian systems
Italy – Fascism; Germany – problems leading to WWII, Hitler and the Nazis; Soviet Union – rise of
Stalin; collectivization of agriculture; forced industry, purges and terror
 Japan – autocracy, militarism, aggression
 Causes of WWII; Events and affects of WWII
 Policy of Appeasement
 Nuremberg trials
 Reconstruction and democratization of Japan
Unit 9: Exploration of Current Regional Themes
Enduring Understandings:
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Beliefs systems can both unite and divide people.
Individuals can influence world events.
Changes in a society can often be traced to a specific significant event, or turning point.
Economic and political systems are structured to meet the needs and wants of different
societies.
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Chinese Communist Revolution
End of European authority in Africa and Asia
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South Africa and Apartheid
Leaders and conditions in new nations: India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Bangladesh; use of non-violent
civil disobedience
New states and conflicts in the Middle East
Conflicts in Latin America
Persistence of nationalism, militarism, and civil war: Balkans, Rwanda