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World History: Teacher’s Guide
The New 2009-2010 World History Curriculum has many changes
to content. These changes include the incorporation of
elements from the former World Cultures Class and
additional Global History and Geography content. In short,
World History is not just about Europe anymore. This
teacher’s guide contains background information on the new
“Global” content. Also the new curriculum focuses heavily
on comparisons between the different people, cultures,
civilizations, and regions in World History.
River Valley Civilizations:
1. Emphasis on reasons why river valleys were where the first
civilizations developed.
2. Identification of Yellow, Nile, Indus, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as
the Cradles of Civilizations.
3. Similarities and Differences between the River Valley Civilizations
including:
-development of writing in Egypt and Mesopotamia
-Chinese isolation
-urban planning, large size, and disappearance of Harappan Civilization
-trade connections between Mesopotamia, Egypt, and South Asia
China:
1. Why did Chinese civilization start along the Yellow and Yangtze
Rivers?
2. Discussion of whether China was really isolated?
3. Belief systems of Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism
4. Concept of the Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Cycle
5. Dynasties including:
Qin- unified China
Han- comparisons to Roman Empire
Tang and Song- Golden Age of China, comparing Chinese Golden Age to
Pax Romana, Renaissance, Gupta Golden Age, Islamic Golden Age
Yuan- Mongol rule of China, increased trade and use of the Silk Road
Ming- voyages of Zheng He and Indian Ocean trade, move to isolation
Qing- imperialism in China, Opium Wars, Boxer and Taiping Rebellions,
spheres of influence, collapse of the Dynasty System
6. Indian Ocean and Silk Road Trade
7. Xian as trade and cultural center like Timbuktu, Constantinople, and
Baghdad.
8. Chinese Civil War and Communist Revolution in China 1927-1949.
9. Communism in China: Mao, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution,
Tiananmen Square
India/South Asia:
1. Indus River Civilization: Mohenjo-daro and Harappa
2. Hinduism, the Caste System as hierarchy with lack of social
mobility , Buddhism
3. Affects of the monsoon
4. Alexander the Greats conquest of
5. Trade: with Mesopotamia, Silk Road, Indian Ocean
6. Ashoka, Gupta Golden Age
7. British imperialism, Sepoy Rebellion
8. Gandhi, Independence and Partition
Japan:
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Geography, island location, lack of resources
Korea as cultural bridge between China and Japan
Shintoism and Buddhism
Feudalism, comparisons to European Feudalism and Caste System
Meiji Restoration and modernization policies of Emperor Meiji,
compare Meiji to other modernizers in history ex. Ataturk, Peter the
Great
6. Role in World War II
Africa:
1. Trade: salt, gold, slaves, West African Trading Kindoms (Ghana,
Mali, Songhai), Indian Ocean trade with China, Arabia, and India
2. Slave trade, role in triangular trade, reasons African slaves were
needed in the Americas
3. Timbuktu as trade, religious and cultural center.
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Connection between spread of Islam and trade in Africa.
Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa
African Nationalism, Mau Mau Rebellion, African Independence
South Africa, Apartheid, and Nelson Mandela
Latin America:
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Pre-Columbian Civilizations: Aztecs, Incas, Mayas
Comparing Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans to other great Empires.
Incan Road Systems
Effects of Age of Exploration, European Colonialism on the
Americas, Columbian Exchange, Mercantilism, Slave Trade
5. Latin American Revolutions and Nationalism
Trade and Cultural Diffusion:
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Conquests of Alexander the Great
Silk Roads
Xian, Constantinople, Baghdad
Roman and Incan Roads
West African Trading Kingdoms
6. Zheng He and Indian Ocean Trade
7. Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo
8. Age of Exploration
Revolutions:
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Common causes of major revolutions in history.
Boxer, Sepoy, Mau Mau and other anti-colonial/imperial revolutions
Meiji Restoration
Chinese Revolution and Civil War 1927-1949, compare to Russian and
other major revolutions.
5. Latin American Revolutions, compared to other revolutions, influence
of the French Revolution and Enlightenment
Golden Ages:
1. Common characteristics of Golden Ages
2. Comparison of Golden Ages
3. Major achievements of:
-Athenian Golden Age
-Pax Romana
-Gupta Golden Age in India
-Tang and Song Dynasties in China
-Renaissance Europe