Download Common Curriculum Map Discipline: Social Science Course: Ancient World History

Common Curriculum Map
Discipline: Social Science
Course: Ancient World History
August/September:
Standards:
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.
15.D.5a Explain how transaction costs affect decisions to produce or consume.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history.
16.E.4a (W) Describe how cultural encounters among peoples of the world (e.g., Colombian exchange,
opening of China and Japan to external trade, building of Suez Canal) affected the environment, 1500 present.
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
16.E.5b (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world environmental history and the related
aspects of political, economic and social history.
17.B.4a Explain the dynamic interactions within and among the Earth's physical systems including
variation, productivity and constructive and destructive processes.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Chapter 1, Emergence of Civilization
1. Who were the prehistoric people?
2. What are the foundations of civilization?
Chapter 2, Egypt & Mesopotamia
1. What were the ancient kingdoms of the Nile?
2. What was Egyptian life & culture like?
Content:
Chapter 1, Emergence of Civilization
1. First people.
2. Old Stone Age.
3. Ice Age
4. Neanderthals.
5. Cro-Magnons.
6. Middle Stone Age.
7. New Stone Age, Neolithic Revolution
8. Early civilizations: Nile River, Tigris & Euphrates, Indus, Huang He
9. Division of labor
Chapter 2, Egypt & Mesopotamia
1. Egypt, physical setting, Nile River
2. Kingdoms, Old, Middle, New
3. Pharaohs: Hatshepsut, Amenhotep, Tutankhamen, Ramses II
4. Culture, architecture, pyramids, math, science, hieroglyphics
5. Egyptian religion and myths.
Skills:
Chapter 1, Emergence of Civilization
1. Explain how anthropologists and archaeologists study prehistoric peoples.
2. Describe the achievements of the Neanderthal and the Cro-Magnon peoples.
3. Identify important developments that occurred in the Middle and New Stone Ages.
4. Identify where the first civilizations developed.
5. Discuss the characteristics of the first civilizations.
6. Summarize the great achievements of the first civilizations.
Chapter 2, Egypt & Mesopotamia
1. List the geographical features that influenced Egyptian civilization?
2. Identify the great achievements of the early Egyptians?
3. Identify and describe the main periods in the early history of Egyptian civilization?
4. Explain how farming and trade were carried on in Ancient Egypt.
5. Describe the Greatest Egyptian cultural and scientific achievements.
6. Describe the Egyptians' religious beliefs.
Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises..
3. Classroom notes.
4. Graphic organizers.
5. Classroom discussion and questions.
6. Written essays and responses.
7. Tests on chapter 1 and test on chapter 2
October:
Standards:
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.15.D.5a Explain how transaction costs affect
decisions to produce or consume.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history.
16.E.4a (W) Describe how cultural encounters among peoples of the world (e.g., Colombian exchange,
opening of China and Japan to external trade, building of Suez Canal) affected the environment, 1500 present.
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
16.E.5b (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world environmental history and the related
aspects of political, economic and social history.
17.B.4a Explain the dynamic interactions within and among the Earth's physical systems including
variation, productivity and constructive and destructive processes.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Chapter 2, Egypt & Mesopotamia, continued
3. What was Sumerian civilization?
4. What were the empires of the Fertile Crescent?
5. Who were the Phoenicians, Lydians, and Hebrews?
Chapter 3, Ancient Indian Civilization
1. What is the physical setting?
2. What early civilization developed in the Indus Valley?
3. Who were the Indo-Aryan invaders?
4. What was the early Indo-Aryan society like?
5. What were the sacred texts?
6. What is Hinduism and how did it develop?
7. What is Buddhism and how did it develop?
8. What was the Mauryan Empire?
9. Who were the Guptas?
10. What was ancient Indian life and culture like?
Content:
Chapter 2, Egypt & Mesopotamia, continued
6. Sumeria, physical setting, Fertile Crescent, city-states
7. Culture, arch, ziggurats, cuneiform
8. Akkadians, Sargon
9. Babylonians, Hammurabi and Code, culture
10. Babylonian religion and myths, Gilgamesh
11. Assyrians, warriors, cavalry, Ninevah and clay tablet library
12. Chaldeans, Nebuchadnezzar
13. Persians, Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes
14. Zoroasterianism
15. Phoenicians, Tyre, Sidon, sea trade, culture, religion, colonies
16. Lydians, coined money, money economy
17. Hebrews, Abraham, David, Solomon
18. Old Testament, Torah, ethical monotheism
19. Judaism
Chapter 3, Ancient Indian Civilization
1. Physical, mountains, rivers, Indo-Gangetic plain, Deccan
2. Climate, monsoons
3. Indus Valley civilization
4. Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, culture, religion, organization, achievements
5. Indo-Aryans, language Sanskrit, organization of society, economy
6. Vedic religion
7. Southern India
8. Religious texts, Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana
9. Social structure
10. Hinduism, ideas, beliefs, gods, practices
11. Buddhism, Buddha's life, teachings, Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, spread
12. Early Empires, Mauryan, Asoka, Gupta rulers
13. Ancient Indian life and culture
Skills:
Chapter 2, Egypt & Mesopotamia, continued
7. Explain the significance of the environment of Sumerian civilization?
8. List and describe the achievements of Sumerian civilization?
9. Identify the most powerful empires of the Fertile Crescent?
10. Describe the cultural achievements if the empires of the Fertile Crescent?
11. Identify the contributions of the Phoenicians and Lydians to language and economics.
12. Describe the lasting contribution made by the Hebrews to religion.
Chapter 3, Ancient Indian Civilization
1. Identify the most important features of India's geography and climate.
2. Describe the characteristics of the first Indus Valley civilization.
3. Describe the Indo-Aryan invasion.
4. Explain the importance of the Vedas.
5. Outline the characteristics of early Indo-Aryan society.
6. Identify great works of literature and philosophy after the Vedic Age.
7. Describe the social structure that emerged in India.
8. Discuss the teaching of Hinduism and Buddhism.
9. Identify great empires that existed in India from the 320 BC to about 550 AD.
10. Identify the great rulers of each empire, and discuss their accomplishments.
11. Discuss the position of women in early Indian society.
12. Describe education in ancient India.
13. Summarize the contributions made by early Indian society to the arts, mathematics, and science.
Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises.
3. Classroom notes.
4. Graphic organizers.
5. Classroom discussion and questions.
6. Written essays and responses.
7. Tests
November:
Standards:
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.15.D.5a Explain how transaction costs affect
decisions to produce or consume.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history.
16.E.4a (W) Describe how cultural encounters among peoples of the world (e.g., Colombian exchange,
opening of China and Japan to external trade, building of Suez Canal) affected the environment, 1500 present.
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
16.E.5b (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world environmental history and the related
aspects of political, economic and social history.
17.B.4a Explain the dynamic interactions within and among the Earth's physical systems including
variation, productivity and constructive and destructive processes.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Chapter 4, Ancient Chinese Culture
1. What is the physical setting?
2. What is the dynastic cycle?
3. What was the Shang dynasty?
4. What was the Zhou dynasty?
5. What was the Qin dynasty?
6. What was the Han dynasty?
7. What is Confucianism and how did it develop?
8. What is Daoism and how did it develop?
9. What was ancient Chinese life and culture like?
Chapter 5, Greek City States
1. What is the physical setting?
2. What was the Minoan civilization?
3. Who were the early migrants into Greece?
4. What were the characteristics of the city-states?
5. What was the Homeric Age?
6. How did the nobles rise to power?
7. What types of government existed in ancient Greece?
8. Why was Sparta important?
9. Why was Athens important?
10. What was daily life in Athens like?
11. What was the significance of the Persian Wars
12. How did Athens become an empire?
13. What was the Peloponnesian War?
Content:
Chapter 4, Ancient Chinese Culture
1. Physical, mountains, plateaus, plains
2. Rivers, Huang He and Chang Jiang
3. Middle kingdom and isolation
4. Dynastic cycle, Mandate of Heaven
5. Xia and ancient legends
6. Shang dynasty, origin, culture, achievements, religion, fall
7. Zhou dynasty, rise, improvements, expansion, loss of power
8. Warring states for control
9. Qin dynasty, rise, achievements, centralization, authoritarian, revolt
10. Han dynasty, rise, civil service, Wu Di, Silk Road and trade, fall
11. Confucianism, Kong Fuzi, Analects, society
12. Daoism, Laozi, Tao Te Ching, Way of Nature
13. Legalism and Buddhism
14. Ancient Chinese culture and life
Chapter 5, Greek City States
1. Physical setting, rivers, mountains, Mediterranean Sea
2. Minoan Civilization, Knossos, Minos, Minotaur
3. Mycenaeans, Dorians
4. Polis, acropolis, agora
5. Homer, Iliad, Odyssey, Greek gods, Olympus, oracles
6. Aristocracy, hoplite, tyrant, democracy
7. Sparta, helots, Ephors, upbringing, military, government
8. Athens, metics, archons, Solon, Council of 500, education, housing, government, navy
9. Persian Wars, Cyrus Darius, Xerxes, Thermopylae, King Leonidas, Salamis, Plataea
10. Delian League, Athenian Empire, Pericles
11. Peloponnesian War, Athens & Sparta conflict
Skills:
Chapter 4, Ancient Chinese Culture
1. Identify geographic features that shaped China's history.
2. Analyze how China's isolation influenced its people's attitudes toward their own and other cultures.
3. Explain basic patterns that historians have identified in Chinese history.
4. Recount what Chinese legends say about ancient China.
5. Explain how Shang rulers gained and kept power.
6. List cultural achievements that occurred under the Shang rulers.
7. Specify ways the Chinese civilization advance under the Zhou dynasty.
8. Describe how the Qin expanded and maintained order in their empire.
9. Identify the major accomplishments of the Han dynasty.
10. Summarize the distinct philosophies that emerged in ancient China.
11. Explain why the Chinese people found Buddhism attractive.
12. Describe how ancient Chinese families were organized.
13. State the primary economic activity in ancient China.
14. Recount ancient Chinese achievements in literature, science, and technology.
Chapter 5, Greek City States
1. Explain how geography influenced Greek history.
2. Describe the civilizations of the Minoans and the Mycenaeans, and explain who the Dorians were.
3. Describe the organization and key features of the polis.
4. Identify Homer, and explain the significance of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
5. Describe the main characteristics of Greek religion.
6. Describe how the city-states were governed.
7. Explain how the government of the city-states gradually changed.
8. Describe the Spartan society.
9. Describe how democracy developed in Athens.
10. Identify the main economic activities in Athens.
11. Describe family life in Athenian society.
12. Describe education in Athens.
13. Detail the beginnings, the progress, and the results of the Persian Wars.
14. Describe the Age of Pericles.
15. Describe the Peloponnesian War.
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Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises.
3. Classroom notes.
4. Graphic organizers.
5. Classroom discussion and questions.
6. Written essays and responses.
7. Tests
December:
Standards:
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.
15.D.5a Explain how transaction costs affect decisions to produce or consume.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history.
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
16.E.5b (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world environmental history and the related
aspects of political, economic and social history.
17.B.4a Explain the dynamic interactions within and among the Earth's physical systems including
variation, productivity and constructive and destructive processes.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Chapter 6, Greece's Golden and Hellenistic Ages
1.
What important cultural contributions were made?
2.
What philosophical and literary contributions came in the Golden Age?
3.
Why is Alexander the Great remembered?
4.
How was Hellenistic Culture spread?
Chapter 7, Roman World
1.
What is the physical setting?
2.
Who were the early people of Italy?
3.
How was government in the Republic organized?
4.
What was the Conflict of the Orders?
5.
How was the Empire extended?
6.
How did Rome defeat Carthage?
7.
What problems did expansion cause?
8.
How did the Republic become the Empire?
9.
Who was Julius Caesar?
10.
What was the Pax Romana?
11.
How was the economy organized?
12.
What was Roman life like?
13.
How did Christianity become recognized?
14.
Who was Diocletian?
15.
Who was Constantine?
16.
Why and how did the Roman Empire fall?
Content:
Chapter 6, Greece's Golden and Hellenistic Ages
1.
Greek art, architecture, acropolis, temples
2.
Painting, sculpture, Myron, Phidias, Praxiteles
3.
Philosophers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Hippocrates
4.
Literature, history, Herodotus, Thucydides
5.
Drama, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
6.
Philip II, Alexander, empire
7.
Hellenistic Culture, economy
8.
Philosophy, cynics, stoics, skeptics, epicurean, Archimedes
Chapter 7, Roman World
1.
Physical setting, rivers, mountains, Mediterranean Sea, Tiber
2.
Etruscans, Greeks, Latins
3.
Senate, assemblies, tribunes, consuls, censors
4.
Conflict of Orders, patricians, plebeians
5.
First, Second, and Third Punic Wars, Carthage, Hannibal
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Agriculture, Latifundia, equites
Roman Empire, Gracchi, Marius, Sulla
First Triumvirate, Julius Caesar, Pompey
Second Triumvirate, Marc Anthony, Cleopatra, Octavian
Julio-Claudians, Good Emperors, Pax Romana, bread, circus
Literature, Tacitus, Ovid, Plutarch, Virgil
Christianity, Judaism, Jesus, Paul, spread, Catholicism
Problems of Empire, Germans, debt, economy, inflation
Diocletian, Constantine
Decline, political, military, social, economic
Skills:
Chapter 6, Greece's Golden and Hellenistic Ages
1.
Distinguish great works of Greek architecture.
2.
Recognize the primary characteristics of Greek art.
3.
Compare the basic ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
4.
Summarize the mathematical and scientific accomplishments of the Golden Age.
5.
Identify important literary forms of the Golden Age.
6.
Explain how Philip II of Macedonia paved the way for a Hellenistic empire.
7.
Detail the accomplishments of Alexander the Great.
8.
Specify what contributed to the breakup of Alexander's empire.
9.
Identify changes that occurred in society during the Hellenistic Age.
10.
Discuss ideas about ethics held by Hellenistic philosophers.
11.
Explain how Hellenistic scientists added to the body of knowledge.
Chapter 7, Roman World
1.
Discuss the geographical advantages of Italy and Rome.
2.
Describe the form of government in the Roman Republic.
3.
Identify factors that allowed Rome's power to expand.
4.
Discuss the Punic Wars.
5.
Identify political, economic, and social changes caused by Roman expansion.
6.
Trace the political changes in Rome that led to the end of the Roman Republic.
7.
Explain how the reign of Julius Caesar served as a transition between the Roman Republic and
the Roman Empire.
8.
Identify aspects of Roman rule that helped unify and solidify the empire.
9.
Describe how Roman citizens made a living and entertained themselves.
10.
Discuss the role of learning, education, and the arts in imperial Rome.
11.
Explain how Christianity arose out of the Jewish tradition in Judea.
12.
Identify difficulties and successes experienced by Christians while under the influence of the
Roman Empire.
13.
Discuss changes that occurred in the church during the late Roman Empire that helped stabilize
and solidify it.
14.
Identify problems that plagued the Roman Empire during the 200s AD.
15.
Explain how the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine slowed the decline of the empire.
16.
List problems that led to the Roman Empire's decline.
Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises.
3. Classroom notes.
4. Graphic organizers.
5. Classroom discussion and questions.
6. Written essays and responses.
7. Tests.
January:
Standards:
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.15.D.5a Explain how transaction costs affect
decisions to produce or consume.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history.
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
16.E.5b (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world environmental history and the related
aspects of political, economic and social history.
17.B.4a Explain the dynamic interactions within and among the Earth's physical systems including
variation, productivity and constructive and destructive processes.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Ch 8 Byzantine Empire, Kievan Russia, Mongols
1. What was the origin of the Byzantine Empire?
2. Who was Constantine?
3. Who were Justinian and Theodora?
4. What were the strengths of the Empire?
5. What role did the Orthodox Church play?
6. What was the iconoclastic controversy?
7. What caused the decline of Constantinople?
8. What was the Fourth Crusade?
9. What was the physical setting of Kievan Russia?
10. Who were the Slavs and Vikings?
11. What led to the Kievan Russia forming?
12. What role did the church play in Kievan Russia?
13. Who was Alexander Nevsky?
14. How was Russia ruled by the Mongols?
15. Who was Ivan IV the Terrible?
Content:
Ch 8 Byzantine Empire, Kievan Russia, Mongols
1. Constantinople, physical setting
2. Constantine, Roman Empire
3. Justinian, Theodora, Belisarius
4. Political, military, "Greek fire", economy, Christian Church
5. Iconoclastic controversy, icons, schism, Eastern Orthodox Church
6. Byzantine culture, Hagia Sophia, Roman Law, Justinian Code
7. Decline, reason, military, economy, Turks, Crusade, legacy
8. Russia, physical, Slavs, Vikings, Kiev, trade routes
9. Government, boyars religion, metropolitan, economy, agriculture, trade
10. Mongols in Eastern Europe, Kievan Russia, Moscow
11. Ivan IV the Terrible, Russian Orthodox Church, "third Rome"
Skills:
Ch 8 Byzantine Empire, Kievan Russia, Mongols
1. Discuss the great contributions made by Justinian.
2. Identify the strengths of the Byzantine Empire.
3. Identify the factors that led to the decline of the Byzantine Empire.
4. Explain influences of Kievan Russia.
5. Describe significant features of Kievan political, economic, and social life.
6. Identify ways in which the Mongols influenced Kievan Russia.
7. List the factors that led to the establishment of the Russian state.
Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises.
3. Classroom notes.
4. Graphic organizers.
5. Classroom discussion and questions.
6. Written essays and responses.
7. Tests
February:
Standards:
Standards:
14.B.5 Analyze similarities and differences among world political systems (e.g., democracy, socialism,
communism).
14.D.5 Interpret a variety of public policies and issues from the perspectives of different individuals and
groups.
15.A.5b Analyze the impact of economic growth.
15.C.4a Analyze the impact of political actions and natural phenomena (e.g., wars, legislation, natural
disaster) on producers and production decisions.
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.4a Analyze and report historical events to determine cause-and-effect relationships.
16.A.4b Compare competing historical interpretations of an event.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.B.5a (W) Analyze worldwide consequences of isolated political events, including the events triggering
the Napoleonic Wars and World Wars I and II.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history.
16.E.4a (W) Describe how cultural encounters among peoples of the world (e.g., Colombian exchange,
opening of China and Japan to external trade, building of Suez Canal) affected the environment, 1500 present.
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Ch 9 The Islamic Empire
1.
Where did Islam begin?
2.
What was Muhammad's life like?
3.
What is Islam, the religion, like/
4.
How did Islam spread?
5.
What divisions are there in the Muslim community?
6.
How are the government and economy of Muslim countries organized?
7.
What advances were made in science, art, society, and mathematics?
8.
Who are the Turks?
9.
How did Muslim's gain control of India?
10.
Who were the Mughals?
11.
How did Muslim's gain control of India?
12.
Who were the Mughals?
13.
What were the achievements of the Safavid Empire in Persia?
Content:
Ch 9 The Islamic Empire
1.
Arabia, physical setting, culture, economy
2.
Muhammad, childhood, family, Revelation, Hijrah, return to Mecca
3.
Qur'an, beliefs of Islam, five pillars, jihad, mosque
4.
spread, caliph, imam, first 4 caliphs
5.
Abbasid, Fatimid, al-Andalus caliphates
6.
Al-Razi, Ibn-Rushd
7.
Turks, Janissaries, Mamluks
8.
Harsha, Rajputs, Delhi Sultanate, Timur, Mongols
9.
Mughals, Babur, Akbar, Shah Jahan
10.
Safavid, Ottoman, Saljuq Empires
11.
Cultural achievements
Skills:
Ch 9 The Islamic Empire
1.
Summarize the central beliefs of Islam.
2.
Describe ideological differences that developed within the Muslim community.
3.
Describe contributions that Arab Muslim culture made to the arts and sciences.
4.
Specify ways that Muslim culture spread to Europe.
5.
Contrast the rules of the Turks and the Arabs.
6.
Describe the effect Harsha and the Rajputs had on India.
7.
Specify the consequences of Muslim rule in India.
8.
Summarize the achievements of the Mughal emperors.
9.
Trace the achievements and development of the Persian Safavid Dynasty.
Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises.
3. Classroom notes.
4. Classroom discussion and questions.
5. Written essays and responses.
6. Test
March:
Standards:
Standards:
14.B.5 Analyze similarities and differences among world political systems (e.g., democracy, socialism,
communism).
14.D.5 Interpret a variety of public policies and issues from the perspectives of different individuals and
groups.
15.A.5b Analyze the impact of economic growth.
15.C.4a Analyze the impact of political actions and natural phenomena (e.g., wars, legislation, natural
disaster) on producers and production decisions.
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.4a Analyze and report historical events to determine cause-and-effect relationships.
16.A.4b Compare competing historical interpretations of an event.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.B.5a (W) Analyze worldwide consequences of isolated political events, including the events triggering
the Napoleonic Wars and World Wars I and II.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history.
16.E.4a (W) Describe how cultural encounters among peoples of the world (e.g., Colombian exchange,
opening of China and Japan to external trade, building of Suez Canal) affected the environment, 1500 present.
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Ch 10 The Rise of the Middle Ages
1.
How did the Franks come to rule Western Europe?
2.
What was the relationship between the Franks and the Catholic Church?
3.
Who was Charlemagne and how was his empire organized?
4.
What role did the Vikings play in Europe during the Middle Ages?
5.
What were the Norse myths?
6.
What was feudalism?
7.
How did the manorial system meet economic needs?
8.
What was chivalry?
9.
How was the Catholic Church organized?
10.
What role did the church play in medieval life.
11.
What problems did the church face?
12.
How did the Anglo-Saxons gain control of England?
13.
How did the Norman Conquest affect England?
14.
What was the significance of King John and the Magna Carta?
15.
How did the Capetians rise to power in France?
16.
What was the Holy Roman Empire?
17.
Who was Frederick Barbarossa?
18.
How did the church increase its power?
Content:
Ch 10 The Rise of the Middle Ages
1.
Collapse of Roman Empire, Franks
2.
Clovis, Merovingian Dynasty
3.
Pepin II, Mayor of the Palace
4.
Charles Martel, Battle of Tours, Pepin III, Donation of Papal States
5.
Charlemagne, Pope Leo III, coronation as emperor
6.
Organization, government, education
7.
Decline of Franks, Treaty of Verdun
8.
Vikings, Danes, Norse, beliefs, myths
9.
Raiding, exploration, settlements, Europe, Russia
10.
Feudalism, lord, vassal, fief, Primogeniture
11.
Contract, justice, obligations
12.
Manorial system, economic, estate, manor, serf, peasant
13.
Chivalry, page, knight, squire
14.
Life of common people, fields, villages, work
15.
Priest, bishop, archbishop, pope, curia, cardinal, monasticism
16.
Monastery, nunnery, abbot, Benedictine Rule, St. Francis, St. Dominic
17.
Pope Gregory I, St. Augustine, St. Patrick, Ireland, illuminated manuscripts
18.
Canon law, excommunication, interdict, lay investiture, simony, heresy
19.
Anglo-Saxons, Wessex, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Normandy
20.
Battle of Hastings, Doomsday Book
21.
Henry II, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, Eleanor of Aquitaine
22.
Richard the Lion Heart, Edward I, parliament, Great Council
23.
Hugh Capet, Capetians, Philip the Fair
24.
Holy Roman Empire, Otto I, Henry III, Henry IV, Pope Gregory VII
25.
Concordat of Worms, Frederick Barbarossa, Lombard League, Pope Innocent III
Skills:
Ch 10 The Rise of the Middle Ages
1.
Explain how Frankish rulers gained control of and governed territory in Western Europe.
2.
Analyze why Charlemagne's empire declined.
3.
Explain why the Vikings were so greatly feared.
4.
Describe the Norse creation and other myths.
5.
Explain how the feudal system and the manorial system complemented each other.
6.
Describe what life was like for the serfs and for the nobility on the manor.
7.
Summarize the characteristics of the code of chivalry.
8.
Describe the organization of the medieval church.
9.
Discuss the church's roles in medieval society.
10.
Describe some of the problems facing the medieval church.
11.
Identify the contributions made by Anglo-Saxons and Normans.
12.
Explain how Parliament and common law developed in England.
13.
Describe how Capetian Kings were able to increase their power.
14.
Explain how German rulers threatened the power of medieval popes.
15.
Discuss how the Concordat of Worms proposed to divide power between popes and emperors.
16.
Explain the importance of Innocent III to the history of the church.
Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises.
3. Classroom notes.
4. Classroom discussion and questions.
5. Written essays and responses.
6. Test
7. Research paper
April:
Standards:
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.15.D.5a Explain how transaction costs affect
decisions to produce or consume.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history..
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
16.E.5b (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world environmental history and the related
aspects of political, economic and social history.
17.B.4a Explain the dynamic interactions within and among the Earth's physical systems including
variation, productivity and constructive and destructive processes.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Ch 10 The Rise of the Middle Ages
1. How was the Catholic Church organized?
2. What role did the church play in medieval life.
3. What problems did the church face?
4. How did the Anglo-Saxons gain control of England?
5. How did the Norman Conquest affect England?
6. What was the significance of King John and the Magna Carta?
7. How did the Capetians rise to power in France?
8. What was the Holy Roman Empire?
9. Who was Frederick Barbarossa?
10. How did the church increase its power?
Ch 11 The High Middle Ages
1. What were the Crusades?
2. What effect did the Crusades have?
3. How was trade in Europe revived?
4. What role did markets and fairs play in Europe?
5. How did manufacturing, banking, and investment begin?
Content:
Ch 10 The Rise of the Middle Ages
1. Priest, bishop, archbishop, pope, curia, cardinal, monasticism
2. Monastery, nunnery, abbot, Benedictine Rule, St. Francis, St. Dominic
3. Pope Gregory I, St. Augustine, St. Patrick, Ireland, illuminated manuscripts
4. Canon law, excommunication, interdict, lay investiture, simony, heresy
5. Anglo-Saxons, Wessex, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Normandy
6. Battle of Hastings, Doomsday Book
7. Henry II, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, Eleanor of Aquitaine
8. Richard the Lion Heart, Edward I, parliament, Great Council
9. Hugh Capet, Capetians, Philip the Fair
10. Holy Roman Empire, Otto I, Henry III, Henry IV, Pope Gregory VII
11. Concordat of Worms, Frederick Barbarossa, Lombard League, Pope Innocent III
Ch 11 The High Middle Ages
1. Crusades, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Children's, Holy Land, Pope Urban III
2. Louis VII, Conrad II, death of Barbarossa, Salah-al-Din, Richard Lion Heart
3. Trade routes, Venice, Constantinople, Flanders, Hanseatic League
4. Markets, fairs, standards, manufacturing, banking, investment
5. Agriculture improvements, rights of townspeople, guilds, middle class
6. Cities and towns, Black Death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, rats, economy
Skills:
Ch 10 The Rise of the Middle Ages
1. Describe the organization of the medieval church.
2. Discuss the church's roles in medieval society.
3. Describe some of the problems facing the medieval church.
4. Identify the contributions made by Anglo-Saxons and Normans.
5. Explain how Parliament and common law developed in England.
6. Describe how Capetian Kings were able to increase their power.
7. Explain how German rulers threatened the power of medieval popes.
8. Discuss how the Concordat of Worms proposed to divide power between popes and emperors.
9. Explain the importance of Innocent III to the history of the church.
Ch 11 The High Middle Ages
1. Explain what the Crusades were and why they occurred.
2. Describe the political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Europe as a result of the Crusades.
3. Explain how the revival of trade came about in Europe.
4. Describe why fairs arose and how they promoted the exchange of goods.
5. Identify important developments that resulted from the revival of European trade.
Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises.
3. Classroom notes.
4. Classroom discussion and questions.
5. Written essays and responses.
6. Test
May/June:
Standards:
15.D.4b Describe the relationships between the availability and price of a nation's resources and its
comparative advantage in relation to other nations.15.D.5a Explain how transaction costs affect
decisions to produce or consume.
15.D.5c Explain how technology has affected trade in the areas of transportation, communication, finance
and manufacturing.
15.E.4b Describe social and environmental benefits and consequences of production and consumption.
15.E.4c Analyze the relationship between a country's science/technology policies and its level and
balance of trade.
16.A.5b Explain the tentative nature of historical interpretations.
16.C.5b (W) Describe how historical trends in population, urbanization, economic development and
technological advancements have caused change in world economic systems.
16.C.5c (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world economic history and the related aspects
of political, social and environmental history.
16.E.5a (W) Analyze how technological and scientific developments have affected human productivity,
human comfort and the environment.
16.E.5b (W) Analyze the relationship between an issue in world environmental history and the related
aspects of political, economic and social history.
17.B.4a Explain the dynamic interactions within and among the Earth's physical systems including
variation, productivity and constructive and destructive processes.
17.B.4b Analyze trends in world demographics as they relate to physical systems.
17.B.5 Analyze international issues and problems using ecosystems and physical geography concepts.
17.C.5c Describe geographic factors that affect cooperation and conflict among societies.
18.A.4 Analyze the influence of cultural factors including customs, traditions, language, media, art and
architecture in developing pluralistic societies.
18.A.5 Compare ways in which social systems are affected by political, environmental, economic and
technological changes.
18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).
18.C.4a Analyze major cultural exchanges of the past (e.g., Colombian exchange, the Silk Road, the
Crusades).
18.C.5 Analyze how social scientists' interpretations of societies, cultures and institutions change over
time.
Essential Questions:
Ch 11 The High Middle Ages
1. What caused the growth of towns in the High Middle Ages?
2. Why did serfdom decline?
3. How did the Black Plague affect Europe?
4. How did life and culture develop?
5. What achievements occurred in literature, science, and the arts?
6. How did wars lead to the growth of nations?
7. What problems did the Catholic Church face?
Ch 12 The Civilizations of East Asia
1. How did the Sui Dynasty reunite China?
2. What was the history and development of the Tang Dynasty?
3. How did the Song Dynasty develop and change China?
4. How did the Mongols gain control of China?
5. How did the Mongols rule China?
6. How did Japan develop historically and culturally?
7. How did Korea become a nation?
8. What is the history of development in South East Asia?
Content:
Ch 11 The High Middle Ages
1. Agriculture, townspeople, guilds, middle class, town life
2. Black death, bubonic, pneumonic, spread, effects
3. Vernacular, troubadour, Dante, Chaucer, university, Abelard & Heloise
4. Thomas Aquinas, scholasticism, Romanesque, Gothic, cathedral
5. Hundred Years' War, Edward III, Philip IV, Joan of Arc, Battle Crecy, long bow
6. War of the Roses, Henry VII, Lancaster, Tudor
7. Innocent III, Boniface VIII, Philip IV, Estates General
8. Babylonian Captivity, Avignon, Great Schism, Council of Constance
9. John Wycliffe, English Bible, Jan Hus
Ch 12 The Civilizations of East Asia
1. Sui Dynasty, Grand Canal, growth, revolt, defeat
2. Tang Dynasty, Chang-an, Tang Taizong, Wu Zhao, Li Bo, Du Fu
3. Zen Buddhism, mediation, persecution, Confucianism, defeat
4. Song Dynasty, Song Taizu, Mongols, inventions, cities, arts, women
5. Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan, Temujin, military power
6. Kublai Khan, Yuan Dynasty, Marco Polo, Rabban Bar Sauma
7. Cultural achievements, collapse
8. Japan, Shinto, kami, China influence, Heian Period, feudal Japan
9. Fujiwara clan, Minamoto clan, Kamakura Shogunate, Ashikaga Shogunate
10. Korea, Silla Dynasty, Koryu Dynasty, Mongols, Chosen or Yi Dynasty
11. South East Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand
12. Mahayana Buddhism, Daoism, Chinese influence
13. Hindu influence, Angkor Wat, Theravada Buddhism
Skills:
Ch 11 The High Middle Ages
1. Describe the rights of medieval townspeople.
2. Explain how merchant and craft guilds helped their communities.
3. Identify factors that led to the decline of serfdom.
4. Understand the important developments in literature during the later Middle Ages.
5. Explain how Abelard and Aquinas contributed to medieval thought.
6. Identify the most important types of medieval architecture.
7. Identify causes and effects of the Hundred Years' war.
8. List factors that strengthened the monarchies of England, France, and Spain.
9. Understand significant events in the development of the Holy Roman Empire.
10. Describe events that challenged the church's power.
11. Identify criticisms lodged against the church.
Ch 12 The Civilizations of East Asia
1. Discuss important changes that occurred during the Tang and Song dynasties.
2. Recognize great accomplishments of Chinese culture during this period.
3. Describe how the Chinese people lived during this time.
4. Explain how the Mongols succeeded in conquering and ruling vast areas.
5. Summarize the effect the Mongols had on China.
6. Discuss factors that influenced Japan's development.
7. Identify the strongest influence on Korea's culture.
8. Specify cultures that shaped the development of mainland Southeast Asia.
Assessment:
1. Map assignments and exercises.
2. Text section review exercises.
3. Classroom notes.
4. Classroom discussion and questions.
5. Written essays and responses.
6. Test