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World History
Grade Level: 10
1st Nine Week Period – End Date October 14th
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Content and Essential Questions
Topics
Classroom Procedures
1 All
Historiography & Geography
Instruction
Time
Suggested Resources
1 Day
Historical Methods
1. (P. 30-8 Skills Handbook Section of
Textbook)
1 Day
5 Themes of Geography
1. (P.24-9 Skills Handbook Section of Textbook
5.6
6 All
7.1-3
Belief Systems
1. Where are the followers of the major
world religions concentrated?
2. How are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
similar?
3. How do the beliefs of Hindus differ from
those of Jews, Christians and Muslims?
4. How does religion serve to create
differences between cultures and often
lead to war?
World History 2010-2011
Define Monotheistic v. Polytheistic
Major Religions
1. Judaism
2. Christianity
3. Islam
4. Hinduism
5. Buddhism
6. Confucianism
2 Days
Belief Systems Chart P. 1167
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Content and Essential Questions
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16.5-6
Where Are We Now? The Present
 Contemporary Political, Economic
and Social Issues
1. What kinds of threats to national and
global security do nations face today?
2. What are examples of international
terrorism in our world today?
3. What has been the US military response
to international terrorism?
4. How do poverty, disease, and
environmental challenges affect people
around the world today?
5. What are some of the causes and effects
of migration?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
Genocide & Ethnic Conflict
 For example: Sudan
International Terrorism/National Security
 For example: Recent Terrorist Attacks
 Middle East
♦ Arab v. Israeli
♦ Jerusalem
♦ Lebanon
♦ Iraq
Instruction
Time
1 Day
Suggested Resources
Chapter 32 section 2
Chapter 34 section 4
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Content and Essential Questions
Topics
Governmental responses to terrorist
1. Tightened security at airports and ports
2. Surveillance and privacy rights
3. Identification badges and photos
Social Challenges
1. Unemployment
2. Poverty
3. Health Care
4. Global Diseases
 SARS (severe acute respiratory
syndrome)
 HIV/AIDS
 H1N1 (swine flu)
5. Famine and Hunger (rising population)
6. Migration
 Refugees: as an issue in international
conflicts
 Immigration
7. Human Rights
 Women in the work force
 Protecting children (forced to serve as
soldiers or slaves)
 Indigenous Peoples: discrimination and
abuse
8. Illiteracy
World History 2010-2011
Instruction
Time
Suggested Resources
Chapter 32 section 3
Chapter 34 sections 4 pgs 11181119
Chapter 34 section 3
Rx for Survival
Refugee Map
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/fullMaps
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Topics
Struggles in the Western Hemisphere:
Mexico, Central America, the
Caribbean, South America
1. Overcoming poverty
2. Fighting for democracy
 Threat of communism
 U.S. support
3. Immigration to U.S.
4. On-going war on drugs
5. Oil
6. Effects of NAFTA
World History 2010-2011
Instruction
Time
Suggested Resources
Chapter 33 section 4
Global Warming and Conflict
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0419
/p02s01-sgn.html
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2.2
Content and Essential Questions
Topics
Human Origins: Neolithic
Prehistoric Man
 Their physical environment shaped the life
of early hunter-gatherer societies.
 Early human societies, through the
development of culture, began the process
of overcoming the limits set by the physical
environment.
Hunter-Gatherers
 Characteristics
 Neolithic Revolution/ Agriculture
Instruction
Time
2 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 1 Section 1 pg 10
Section 2
Art/Literature
Cave Art-p. 16
1. How did physical geography determine the
lives of early humans?
2. What were the characteristics of huntergatherer societies?
3.1
3.2
Ancient River Valley Civilizations
 During the New Stone Age, permanent
settlements appeared in river valleys and
around the Fertile Crescent.
 River valleys provided rich soil for crops, as
well as protection from invasion.
1. Why did ancient civilizations develop in
river valleys?
2. Where were the earliest civilizations
located?
3. When did these civilizations exist?
4. What were the social, political and
economic characteristics of early
civilizations?
5. What religious traditions developed in
ancient civilizations?
6. What forms of language and writing
existed in early civilization?
7. What were essential beliefs of Judaism
8. How did Judaism influence Western
civilization?
World History 2010-2011
Define
1. Civilization
2. 8 Characteristics of Civilizations
3. City-State
4. Empire
Mesopotamia
1. Fertile Crescent
2. Sumer
3. Development of Language and writing
 Cuneiform
4. Social Classes
5. Hammurabi’s Code-Civil Law p.37
6. Judaism Chapter 2:7
 Yahweh
 Covenant with Abraham
7. Babylon
8. Persia
9. Phoenicians
 Alphabet
 Sea Trade

Art/Literature
1. Architecture, Ziggurats, Epic of Gilgamesh
4 Days
Chapter 1 section 3, p.19

Document Assessment:
SOAPSTON,G-PERSIA, AAPARTS
 SPRITE Chart (Social, Political,
Religious, Intellectual
Technology, Economics)
Label World Map
Chapter 2 section 1-2

DBQ (Document Based
Questions) for Hammurabi’s
Code-Supplemental
Resources
Chapter 2 section 5 All (Judaism)
Chapter 2 section 2 All (Babylon,
Persia & Phoenicia)
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9. How did Persia govern its empire?
10. Why were physical geography and location
important to the development of Indian
civilization?
11. How did the Nile influence the rise of the
powerful civilization of Egypt?
12. How did they yearly floods of the Nile
influence life in ancient Egypt?
13. Egyptian government during the Old
Kingdom?
14. How did religion and learning play
important roles in ancient Egyptian
civilization?
15. What art forms were common in ancient
Egypt?
World History 2010-2011
Egypt
1. Nile
 Effects of Geography
2. Religion
 Book of the Dead
3. Define Bureaucracy
4. Art/Literature
 Hieroglyphics p. 54
 Rosetta Stone p. 55
5. Art & Architecture
6. Advancement of science and matter
India
 Indus River Civilization
China
 Huang River
Chapter 2 section 3-4
Gift of the Nile IMAX Video
India & China Map: Just mention,
not too in depth
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Content and Essential Questions
Topics
Ancient Greece
Ancient Sea Civilizations
1. How did the mountains, seas, islands,
harbors, peninsulas, and straits of the
Aegean Basin shape Greek economic,
social, and political development and
patterns of trade and colonization?
2. How did democracy develop in Athens?
3. Why was the leadership of Pericles
important to the development of Athenian
life and Greek culture?
4. What were some important contributions
of Greek culture to Western civilization
5. How did the empire of Alexander the
Great establish a basis for the spread of
Hellenistic culture?
Art/Literature/Religion
1. Homer-Iliad & Odyssey
2. Knossos Frescoes
3. Parthenon
 Dying Gaul
 Polytheism
Instruction
Time
5 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 4
Pg. 132
Rise of City-States
1. Geography of Greece
2. Types of Government
 Poles
 Monarchy
 Oligarchy
 Aristocracy
 Direct democracy
3. Sparta-New Warrior Society
4. Athens-Democracy Begins
 Tie to Future democratic Governments
Glory that was Greece
1. Pericles
2. Herodotus
3. Hippocrates
4. Archimedes
5. Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Hellenistic Age
1. Phillip II
 Uniting of Greece
2. Alexander the Great
3. Assimilation of Culture
4. Alexandria, Egypt
Important Cultural Figures of Greece
( Chart p 144)
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Content and Essential Questions
Ancient Rome
1. How was geographic location important to
economic, social, and political development
of ancient Rome?
2. How did the government of the Roman
Republic become more democratic in its
decision making?
3. Why was Rome able to extend its influence
across the entire Mediterranean basin and
much of Western Europe?
4. Why did the Roman Republic fail to survive
challenges by Julius Caesar?
5. Did an imperial monarchy come to rule
Rome?
6. What was Pax Romana and what was its
impact on the Roman Empire?
7. How did Roman achievements influence
Western Civilization?
8. How did Christianity become established
within the Roman Empire?
9. What were the essential beliefs of the
early Christian faith and how did it
spread?
10. Why did the Western Roman Empire
decline?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
Unifying Italy and effect on the growth of
the Roman Empire
1. Government of the Republic
 Senate
 Consuls
 Dictatorship
 Tribune
 Citizen
 Patricians
 Plebeians
2. Religion
 Compare to Greek
3. Decline of the Republic
 Julius Caesar
 Reforms
4. Rise of the Roman Empire & Military
Domination
 Change in Government Structure
 Major Rulers of the Empire (Augustus,
Hadrian)
5. Pax Romana (tie back to modern
International Law)
6. Art, Literature and Philosophy of Rome
7. Developments in Science and Math
 Aqueducts
 Engineering
 Ptolemy
8. Rise of Christianity
 Constantine
 Theodosius
9. Decline of Rome
Instruction
Time
5 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 5
See chart pg 180
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5.8
6.1
6.2
8.1
8.2
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Byzantine Empire
1. What was the influence of Justinian’s
codification of Roman law on the
Byzantine Empire and later legal codes?
2. What was Justinian’s influence on the
expansion of the Byzantine Empire and its
economy?
3. What were the contributions of Byzantine
art and architecture?
4. Why did the Byzantine Empire have so
much influence on religion, culture, and
trade in Russia and Eastern Europe?
Muslim Civilizations
1. Where did the Islamic religion originate
and where did it spread?
2. What are the beliefs, traditions, and
customs of Islam?
3. How did geography and trade influence
the rapid expansion of territory under
Muslim rule?
4. How did Islamic civilization preserve and
extend ancient Greek, Persian, and Indian
learning?
5. What were some contributions of Islamic
civilization?
6. Where was the Ottoman Empire located,
and how did it expand?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
1. Growth of Constantinople
 Justinian
 Justinian’s Code
 Changes in Empire
 Great Schism
 Art and Architecture (Mosaics, Hagia Sophia)
2. Byzantine Influence on Kieva Russia and
Eastern Europe
 Alphabet
 Religion
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Muhammad as the Prophet
5 Pillars of Islam (pg. 307)
People of the Book
Islam as a way of Life
Growth of the Muslim Empire (map pg 315)
Muslim Golden Age
 Art
 Architecture
 Literature (1001 Nights)
 Calligraphy
 Centers of Learning
 Math and Medicine
11. Ottoman Empire
 Suleiman/spread into Europe
 Safavid
 Decline of the Ottomans
Instruction
Time
2 Days
Chapter 9 Section 1-2
5 Days
Chapter 10
Suggested Resources
9
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6.2
9.1
9.5
Content and Essential Questions
Middle Ages
1. How did the Charlemagne rise to
prominence in Western Europe?
2. What were their most important
accomplishment?
3. How did the invasions by the Angles,
Saxons, Magyars, and Vikings influence
the development of Europe?
4. How did a feudal society develop in
Europe in the Middle Ages?
5. How did the medieval manor function as
a social and economic system?
6. How and why did the Church grow in
importance during the Middle Ages?
7. How did trade facilitate the diffusion of
goods and ideas among different
cultures?
8. How did European nation-states expand
their territories and consolidate their
power?
9. How did Charlemagne revive the idea of
the Roman Empire?
10. What were key events and effects of the
Crusades?
11. How did European scholars begin to
interpret and value ancient learning/
12. How did the Black Death alter economic
and social institutions in much of Asia
and then Europe?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
1. Rise of Charmalemagne
 Missi-Dominici
 United Christian Kingdom
 Revival of Learning
 Raids from Outsiders (Magyars, Vikings,
Anglo Saxons)
2. Feudalism
 Manorialism system
 Political
 Economic
 Social
3. Medieval Church
 Dominance on Life
 Papal Supremacy
 Canon Law
 Rise of monasteries
 Power/Corruptions/Reform
4. Jews in the Middle Ages
5. Trade and Travel
 Agricultural
 Three field system
 Banking
 Letters of credit
 Joint stock companies
 Guilds
 Commercial Revolution
 Rise of cities
6. Changes in class structures
7. Changes in Government
 Magna Carta
 Limitations on King’s Power
8. Formation of the Holy Roman Empire
 Feud between Pope and Emperor
 Concordat of Worms
9. Crusades
 Motives of the Catholic Church
 Call of Urban II
 1st and 4th Crusades (plunder of
Constantinople)
Instruction
Time
5 Day
Suggested Resources
Chapters 7 and 8
10

Impact of Crusades: Widening of the split
between the Catholic and Orthodox
Church
 Economic Impact
 Decline of the Church and Monarchy
 Growth of hostilities between religious
groups
 Reconquista
10. Learning and culture
 Literature (Chaucer, Dante) use of the
vernacular.
 Scholasticism
 Gothic Architecture
11. Effects of the Plague, Schism, and Hundred
Years War
World History 2010-2011
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10.1
10.2
11.1
11.2
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Content and Essential Questions
Renaissance
1. What were the artistic, literary, and
intellectual ideas of the Renaissance?
2. What is a Renaissance Man?
3. What were the economic foundations of
the Renaissance?
4. Who were prominent Italian Renaissance
artists and writers?
5. How did classical knowledge of the
ancient Greeks and Romans foster
humanism in the Italian Renaissance?
6. How did ideas of the Italian Renaissance
change as they became adopted in
northern Europe?
7. Who were important artists and writers of
the Northern Renaissance?
8. What were Machiavelli’s ideas about
power?
9. What was the role of the printing press in
the spread of new ideas?
Reformation
1. What were the problems and issues that
provoked religious reforms in Western
Christianity?
2. What were the major economic, political,
and theological issues involved in the
Reformation?
3. What were the beliefs of Martin Luther,
John Calvin, and Henry VIII?
4. What were some of the changing cultural,
values, traditions, and philosophies during
the Reformation?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
Renaissance
 Renaissance/Renaissance Man
 Humanism
 Patron
 Perspective
 Vernacular
 The Family of Medici’s
 Michelangelo
 Da Vinci
 Guttenberg
 Sir Thomas More
 Erasmus
 Machiavelli- The Prince
 Cervantes (p 508 -9)
 Shakespeare
Instruction
Time
6 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 13 sections 1-4 only
Reformation
 Indulgences
 Protestantism
 Predestination
 Martin Luther
 John Calvin
 Council of Trent
 Edict of Nantes (France)
 Henry VIII of England
 Elizabeth I of England
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13.3
13.4
13.5
Content and Essential Questions
Enlightenment and the Scientific
Revolution
1. Who were some Enlightenment thinkers,
and what were their ideas?
2. How did philosophers of the
Enlightenment influence thinking on
political issues?
3. How did the Enlightenment promote
revolution in the American colonies?
4. Who were some artists, philosophers, and
writers of the period?
Scientific Revolution
1. What were some new scientific theories
and discoveries?
2. What were some of the effects of these
new theories?
3. What improved technologies and
institutions were important to European
economies?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
Enlightenment / the Scientific Revolution
1. Define

Natural Law

Social Contract

Natural Rights

Philosophes

Censorship

Salons

Baroque

Rococo

Enlighten Depots
2. Identify the people, mains ideas, and
documents they are associated with
 Thomas Hobbes
 John Locke
 Baron de Montesquieu
 Voltaire
 Adam Smith
 Denis Diderot
 Rousseau
 Mary Wollstonecraft
 Jefferson
3. Identify the people and their continuations to
the Arts
 Bach
 Mozart
 Handel
 Rembrandt
 Gainsborough
4. Explain the new scientific theories:
 Copernicus
 Kepler
 Newton
 Galileo
 Harvey
 Ben Franklin
Instruction
Time
4 days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 17 section 1 and 2
Chapter 13 section 5
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13.2
Content and Essential Questions
Age of Absolutism
1. What is an absolute monarch?
2. What effect did the absolute monarchs
have on their countries?
3. How did the English Civil War and the
Glorious Revolution promote the
development of the rights of Englishmen?
4. How did Peter the Great and Catherine
the Great strengthen Russia and expand its
territory?
5. Why was obtaining a war-water port a
major priority for Peter?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
Age of Absolutism
1. Define
 Absolute Monarch
 Divine Rights of Kings
2. Spain
 Charles V
3. France
 Louis XIV
♦ Cardinal Richelieu
♦ “I am the State”
♦ Versailles
4. England
 English Civil War
♦ Charles I
♦ Cromwell
 Glorious Revolution
♦ English Bill of Rights (p 524)
♦ Constitutional Government
5. Austria/Prussia
♦
Fredrick the Great
6. Absolutism
 Peter the Great
 Modernization of Russia
 Catherine the Great
Instruction
Time
3 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 16 section 1-5
Chapter 16 section 5
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14.1
Content and Essential Questions
French Revolutions and Napoleon
1. How did the ideas of the Enlightenment
contribute to causing the French
Revolution:
2. What were the three estates of the Old
Regime?
3. How did nationalism and democracy
influence national revolutions?
4. What was the legacy of Napoleon?
5. What was the significance of the
Congress of Vienna?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
French Revolutions and Napoleon
1. French Society divided into Estates
 1st, 2nd, and 3rd –membership of each
2. First Stages of the Revolution
 Causes Leading to Revolution
 Economic decline
 Political upheaval
♦ Formation and acts of National
Assembly
♦ Storming of the Bastille
♦ Declaration of the Rights of Man
♦ March of Versailles
3. Second Stage
 Rise of radicals
 Reign of Terror
 Robespierre
 Committee of Public Safety
4. Third Stage of the Revolution
 Rise of Napoleon
 Napoleon’s Empire
 Directory
 Growth of Nationalism
5. Napoleon falls from power.
 Waterloo
 Final exile
6. Legacy of Napoleon
 Congress of Vienna
 Concert of Europe
Instruction
Time
5 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 18
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15.2
15.3
15.4
Content and Essential Questions
Industrial Revolution
1. Why did the Industrial Revolution
originate in England?
2. Why did the spread of industrialism to
Europe and the United States accelerate
colonialism and imperialism?
3. How did the Industrial Revolution produce
changes in culture and society including
women, children, and the family?
4. How did the Industrial Revolution affect
slavery?
5. Why did workers organize into labor
unions?
6. What was the role of capitalism and
market competition in the Industrial
Revolution?
7. What were some theories opposed to
capitalism?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
1. Rise of Industrialism
 Improvements in Agriculture methods
 Population increases
 Improvement in technology
2. Industrial Revolution begins in Britain
 Natural Resources
 Favorable geography
 Stable government
 Entrepreneur/capital
 Transportation
 Textile industry leads advancement
3. Social impacts
 Urbanization
 Widening gap in class structure.
 Life in the factory system
4. New Economic Systems emerge
 Capitalism/Laissez-faire
 Socialism
 Communism
♦ Communist Manifesto
♦ Modern Marxism (Cuba)
5. The need for resources and new markets for
goods will lead to the need for Europeans to
seek new colonies. Especially Africa.
Instruction
Time
5 days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 19
Chapter 21 (summarize)
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14.2
15.1
15.3
16.4
Content and Essential Questions
Concepts of Nationalism and
Imperialism
1. Why did European countries participate
in imperialism and a race for colonies?
2. What were some responses of
colonized peoples to European
imperialism?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
1. Define Nationalism
2. Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
3. Define Imperialism
 Motives for Imperialism
 Forms of Imperialism
♦ Colonies
♦ Protectorates
♦ Spheres of Influence
♦ Economic Imperialism
Instruction
Time
2 days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 20 sections 1 and 2
Chapter 24 section 1
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2.2
3.2
7.5
12.1
12.2
12.4
15.5
Content and Essential Questions
Meso and South America
1. What were the characteristics of Mayan,
Aztec, and Incan civilizations?
2. Why were Europeans interested in
discovering new lands and markets?
3. Who were some important explorers?
4. How did the expansion of European
empires into the Americas affect the
religion of those areas?
5. What was the effect of European
migration and settlement on the
Americas?
6. What was the impact of the Colombian
Exchange between European and
indigenous cultures?
7. What were the characteristics of the
colonial system in Latin America in the
nineteenth century?
8. What were the contributions of
Toussaint L’Ouverture and Simon Bolivar
to revolutions in Latin America?
9. What was the significance of the Suez
Panama Canal as imperialism expanded?
10. How did the Monroe Doctrine impact
revolutions in Latin America?
11. How did the French and American
Revolutions influence Latin American
independence movements?
12. What was the triangular trade?
13. What was the impact of precious metal
exports from the Americas?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
1. Early peoples
 Olmecs, Mayans, Aztec, Inca
 Effects of Geography on cultures
 Prince Henry the Navigator
 Columbus
 Magellan
 Cortez
 Pizzaro
2. Roles of exploration/Conquest in the Americas
3. Effect of Migration and Columbian Exchange
4. Art and Architecture (pg. 191)
5. Social Structure in the Colonies
6. Mercantilism
 Gold and Silver
7. Revolts in Latin America
 Haiti/Toussaint L’Overture
 Mexico
 Simon Bolivar
 Jose de San Martin
8. Economic Imperialism in Latin America
 Colonial Legacy
 Economic Dependence
 Monroe Doctrine/Roosevelt Corollary
9. Mexico fight for Independence
 Mexican Revolution
10. Growth of Nationalism
 Economic
 Political
 Social
 Good Neighbor Policy
Instruction
Time
10 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 6
Chapter 14 section 1
Chapter 15
Chapter 20 section 3
Chapter 25 section 4
Chapter 27 Section 1
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3.1
3.2
7.1
15.5
16.6
Content and Essential Questions
India and Southeast Asia
1. Why were physical geography and
location important to the development
of Indian civilization?
2. What impact did the Aryans have on
India?
3. Why was the caste system central to
Indian culture?
4. What are characteristics of the Hindu
religion?
5. How did Hinduism influence Indian
society and culture?
6. What are the characteristics of
Buddhism?
7. How did Buddhism spread?
8. What were the contributions of the
Mughal emperors of India?
9. How did the Mughal Empire trade with
European nations?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Early People of India and Pakistan
Geography of the Subcontinent
Effects of climate (monsoons)
Rise and Fall of Indus Civilizations
Aryans Civilization
 Vedas
 Literature-Mahabharata, Ramayana
6. Hinduism / Buddhism
 Basic Beliefs
 Caste system-effect on Social structure
 Teachings of Buddha
♦ 4 Noble Truth
♦ Eightfold Path
7. Spread of Buddhism beyond India
8. Empires of India
 Gupta Empire
 Asoka-sending of missionaries
 Gupta’s Golden Age
♦ Art and Literature
♦ Decimal system
9. India’s Muslim Empire
 Defeat of the Hindus
 Clash of Muslim and Hindu Culture.
 Blending of the two cultures
10. Mughal India
 Akbar the Great
 European trade with the Mughal empire
 Fall of the Mughal empire
11. Imperialism in India
 British East India Company
 Sepoy Rebellion
 British take direct control of India (RAJ)
 Consequences of British Rule in India
(detrimental and beneficial)
12. Growth of Nationalism in India
13. Cultures of Southeast Asia
 Effect of Geography
 Indian influence (Islam and Buddhism)
14. Imperialism in Southeast Asia
 Dutch East India Company
Instruction
Time
10 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 3 section 1-3
Chapter 10 section 4
Chapter 14 sections 3 pg. 460
Chapter 24 section 4
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 Search for spices
 French Indochina
 Independence of Siam
 United States in the Philippines.
15. Effects of Imperialism (pg. 794)
16. How can the effects of Imperialism still be
seen today?
World History 2010-2011
Chapter 12 section 5
Chapter 25 section 2 and 3
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3.1
3.2
7.2
7.3
9.6
12.2
14.4
15.5
16.4
16.5
16.6
Content and Essential Questions
China/ East Asia
1. Why was the Great Wall of China built?
2. What were the contributions of classical
China to world civilization?
3. Describe China under these dynasties and
identify their contributions and any major
events to occur.
4. How did the Kublai Khan organize Mongol
in China?
5. Why did Ming China demand that
Europeans pay for goods with gold or
silver?
6. How did the Qing respond to Britain’s
diplomatic mission?
7. How did the Communists manage to
survive Jiang’s “extermination
campaigns”?
8.
What are the reasons for the Open
Door Policy in China?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
CHINA
Rise of the Chinese Civilization
1. Geography
2. Formation of Government
 Civil Servants
3. Development of Classes/Development
Patriarchal society
 Foot binding
Dynasties
1. Zhou Dynasty
 Mandate from Heaven
 Dynastic Cycle
2. Qin Dynasty
 Construction of the Great Wall
3. Han Dynasty
 Silk Road
4. T’ang/Tang Dynasty
5. Song Dynasty
6. Mongols
 Kublai Kahn
7. Ming Dynasty
8. Qing Dynasty
 Taiping Rebellion
 Hundred Days of Reform
 Boxer Rebellion
 Jiang Jieshi (Chiang KaiKhek)/Nationalist/Communist Conflict
 Mao Zedong
 Long March
Interactions with other countries
1. Balance of Trade
2. Open Door Policy
3. Great Britain
 Opium War
4. Japan
 Sino-Japanese War (1st and 2nd)
Instruction
Time
10 days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 3 sections 4-5
Chapter 12 section 1
Chapter 12 sections 2
Chapter 14 sections 4
Chapter 27 sections 4
Chapter 24 section 5
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Religions
1. Confucianism
2. Buddhism
3. Taoism
4. Daoism
Art/Literature/developments
1. Porcelain
2. Silk-making
3. Terracotta Soldiers
4. Gunpowder
5. Movable Type
9. Why were Confucianism, Daoism, and
Buddhism important in the formation
of Chinese culture?
10. Explain the different ways in which
Confucianism and Daoism taught the
people should live their lives.
11. Compare the Japanese and feudalism
during middle ages.
12. By the mid-1800s, why did so many
groups of people in Japan feel
discontent with Tokugawas Rule?
13. What changes did the reforms of the
Meiji Restoration bring about in Japan?
14. How did industrialization help state
Japan on an imperialist course?
World History 2010-2011
JAPAN
1. Geography
 Ring of Fire
2. Formation of Gov’t
 Feudalism – compare to Middle Ages
 Samurais
Japan Modernizes
1. Tokugawas Empire
2. Interactions with other countries
 United States
♦ Matthew Perry
♦ Treaty of Kanagawa
3. Meiji Restoration
 Development of Western technology
 Modern Military
 Creation of Diet, Bureaucracy
Ch 12 section 4
Japans Religions and Cultural
1. Buddhism
 Zen
2. Shintoism
Chapter 12 section 4 pgs 389,
394-396
KOREA: The Hermit Kingdom
1. Geography
2. Systems of Writing
Chapter 12 section 3
Chapter 14 section 4 p 464
Chapter 25 section 1 p 789
Cultural Interactions with
1. Japan
2. China
Chapter 25, page 790
Chapter 12 section 4 page 389
Chapter 12 pgs 390-391
Chapter 25 section 1
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7.4
12-all
15.5
16.6
Content and Essential Questions
Africa
1. How did geography and natural
resources affect the development of
early societies throughout Africa?
2. What geographic features limited
movement in Africa and what made
them obstacles?
3. How did trade cause change in North
Africa?
4. How did the kingdoms of West Africa
develop and prosper?
5. What influence did religion and trade
have on the development of East Africa?
6. What factors influenced the
development of societies?
7. religious beliefs and African culture?
8. What effects did European exploration
have on the people of Africa?
9. How did Europeans change the nature
of African slavery?
Topics
1. Early Civilizations in Africa
 Influence of Geography
 Bantu Migration
 Nubian/ Kush Empire
 Influence of Mediterranean world on
North Africa
 Spread of Islam into North America
2. Kingdoms of West Africa
 Ghana
 Mali
3. Kingdoms and Trading States of East Africa
 Axum and effect of trade
 Conversion to Christianity
4. Ethiopia
 Influence of Christianity and Judaism
5. East African City States
 Trade shape Swahili (language )
6. African Societies
 Family structure
 Political patterns
 Religion
 Art and Literature (music)
7.

10. How did imperialist European powers
claim control over most of Africa by the
end of the 1800s?
11. How did European contact with Africa
increase in the late 1800s?
12. How did King Leopold II set off a
scramble for colonies in Africa?
13. How did Ethiopians resist imperialism?
World History 2010-2011
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
8.
9.
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
Effect of the Global Age on Africa.
African Slave Trade/ Triangular Trade/
Middle Passage
Asante Kingdom and the slave trade
Europeans take hold in South Africa
Imperialism in Africa
European Contacts
♦ Livingstone
♦ Missionaries
Scramble for Africa
King Leopold
Berlin Conference
Cecil Rhodes
Instruction
Time
10 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 11
Chapter 14 section 2
Chapter 24 Section2
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10.
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
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11.
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

Resistance to Imperialism in Africa
Maji Maji Rebellion
Samori Toure
Ethiopia / Menelik II
Egyptian Modernization
Muhammad Ali
Suez Canal
Chapter 24 section 3 page 764
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14.3
16.1
Content and Essential Questions
World War I
1. What role did Otto van Bismarck play in
the unification of Germany?
2. What events led to the unification of
Italy?
3. How and why did World War I begin?
4. What were the major events of the war?
5. Identify and compare political
boundaries before and after WW I.
6. What happened because of the
assassination of Francis Ferdinand and
his wife?
7. Describe the results from fighting on the
western and eastern fronts.
8. What impact did the Zimmerman note
and unrestricted submarine warfare
have on the United States entering the
war?
9. What made World War I much more
deadly than previous wars?
10. Why was it important for both sides to
keep civilian morale high during the
war?
11. Why did Germany ask the Allies for an
armistice in November 1918?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
World War I
1. Unification of Germany
 Otto von Bismarck
 Unification of Germany
 Franco-Prussian War
 Kaiser William II
2. Unification of Italy
 Count Camillo Cavour
 Giuseppe Garibaldi
 Red Shirts
3. Austria-Hungary/Dual Monarchy
4. Ottoman Empire Collapses:
 Nationalism in Balkans
 “Powder Keg”
5. Causes
 Triple Alliance
 Triple Entente
 Militarism
 Nationalism
 Imperialism/Competition
 Assassination of Archduke
6. Warfare
 Trench Warfare
 Poison Gas, Tanks, Airplanes,
Submarines, Machine Guns
 Allies
 Central Powers
 Western Front
 Eastern Front
 Other Fronts
 T. E. Lawrence
7. Total War
 Propaganda
 Women
8. U.S. Involvement
 Lusitania
 Zimmerman Note/Unrestricted submarine
warfare
 Woodrow Wilson
Instruction
Time
6 Days
Suggested Resources
Ch. 22 sections 1-4 summary—do
not use section 5
Chapter 26 sections 1-4
25
9. Armistice
12. What were the outcomes and global
effects of World War I?
13. What factors influenced the peace
treaties that ended World War I, and
how did countries react to the treaties?
14. What were the terms of the Treaty of
Versailles?
15. Why did the League of Nations fail to
accomplish Wilson’s dream?
16. Why was the mandate system created?
World History 2010-2011
10. Peace
 Paris Peace Conference/Treaty of
Versailles
 Reparations
 Self-Determination
 Fourteen Points
 League of Nations
 Mandate System
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8.3
13.1
16.2, 3
Content and Essential Questions
Russian Revolution
1. How did geography and migration of
different peoples influence the rise of
Russia?
2. How did geography affect Russian
settlement and growth?
3. Describe the Mongol rule of Russia.
4. How did Ivan III and Ivan IV establish
authoritarian power?
Topics
1.
2.
Geography/Three Regions
Mongols
 Genghis Khan
 “Golden Horde”
3.
4.
5.
6.
Lenin
November/Bolshevik Revolution
Civil War
Communism/Lenin’s NEP
Instruction
Time
3 days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 9 section 2
5. How did Alexander III respond to the
murder of his father?
6. Why was Bloody Sunday a turning point
for the Russians?
7. Why did Russia erupt in revolution while
fighting in World War I?
8. How did communism rise in Russia?
9. How did Lenin’s policies change
economic and social life in Russia?
World History 2010-2011
Ch. 26 Section 5
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16.3
Content and Essential Questions
Between the Wars
1. What political and economic challenges
did the leading democracies face in the
1920s and 1930s?
2. What political changes resulted from the
worldwide depression?
3. How did nationalism contribute to
changes in Africa and the Middle East
following World War I?
4. Why did dictatorial governments emerge
after World War I?
5. How did these regimes affect the world
after World War I?
6. How did postwar disillusionment
contribute to Mussolini’s rise?
7. How did the Fascist party transform
Italy’s government and economy?
8. What political and economic problems did
the Weimar Republic face?
9. Describe the Nazi party’s ideology and
Hitler’s plans for ruling Germany.
10. What were Stalin’s goals for the
U.S.S.R., and how did he achieve them?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Post War Politics
 Ireland
 U.S. and Isolationism
 Kellogg-Briand Pact
 Weakness of League of Nations
Growth Nationalism
 Indian Independence Movement
 Amritsar Massacre
 Gandhi and non-violence movement
 Rise of Nationalism in Africa
 Resistance to colonial rule
 Pan-Africanism
 Negritude Movement
The Great Depression
Fascism in Italy
 Define Fascism
 Mussolini
 Black Shirts
 March on Rome
Nazism in Germany
 Weimar Republic
 Hitler
 Third Reich
 Gestapo
 Nuremberg Laws
 Kristallnacht
Russian
 Stalin’s Totalitarianism
 Five-Year Plan
 Collectives
 Gulags
 Great Purge
 Propaganda
 Censorship and the Arts
 Russification
 Atheism
 Communist Party
 Comintern
Instruction
Time
5 days
Suggested Resources
Ch. 28 Sections 2, 3 and 5
Chapter 27 section 2 and 3
Chapter 28 Section 4
28
11. How did democratic participation in
Japan both grow and stagnate in the
1920”s?
12. What changes did militarists make
when they came to power?
13. What role did geography play in
Japan’s desire to expand its empire?
7. Japan
 WWI
 International strength joining the Allies
 Industrial Strength
 Hirohito
 Growth of ultranationalist
WWII



World History 2010-2011
Interactions with
gaining control of Manchuria
Manchurian Incident, 1931
Japan’s withdrawal from the League of
Nations
Chapter 27 Section 5
Chapter 25 section 1 pg 789-790
Chapter 27 Section 4 page 873
Chapter 27 section 5 pg 876
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16.3, 4
Content and Essential Questions
World War II
1. Describe the German, Italian, and
Japanese drives for empire.
2. What convinced Britain and France to end
their policy of appeasement? Why?
3. Which regions fell under Axis rule
between 1939 and 1941?
4. What were the causes of World War II?
5. Why did the United States enter the war?
6. What were the major events of World
War II?
7. Who were the major leaders of World
War II?
8. Why did President Truman decide to use
the atomic bomb?
9. Why do you think that an event as
horrifying as the Holocaust was able to
occur?
10. What were the long-term effects of
World War II?
11. What were the war crimes trials?
Topics
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
World History 2010-2011
Causes
 Appeasement
 Military Expansion
 Germany breaking Treaty of Versailles
(military, Rhineland, Anschluss,
Czechoslovakia)
Axis Powers/Allied Powers Leaders
Nazi-Soviet Pact
World War II Events
 Invasion of Poland
 Blitzkrieg
 Fall of France/Viche France
 Battle of Britain
 Attack on Pearl Harbor
 Total War
 Battle of El Alamein
 Battle of Stalingrad
 D-Day Invasion
 Yalta Conference/Big Three
 Island-hopping
 Atomic Bomb
♦ Manhattan Project
♦ Hiroshima and Nagasaki
♦ The Holocaust
German and Japanese Atrocities
 Holocaust
 Bataan Death March
Aftermath
 Nuremberg Trials
 United Nations
 Occupation of Japan
 Creations of Modern Day Israel
Instruction
Time
10 days
Suggested Resources
Ch. 29
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16.5
17.1, 3,
4
Content and Essential Questions
The Cold War
1. What events led to the Cold War?
2. Why did Berlin become the focus for the
Cold War?
3. What factors discouraged the use of
nuclear weapons during the Cold War?
4. How did the U.S. and the Soviet Union
confront each other around the world
during the Cold War?
5. What were the main successes and
failures of the Chinese Communist
Revolution?
6. How did the Cold War influence conflicts
in Eastern Asia after World War II?
7. What was the policy of containment?
8. How did the domino theory lead the
United States to send troops to
Vietnam?
9. How did communist Vietnam dominate
parts of Southeast Asia after the
Vietnam War?
10. What were the causes and
consequences of the collapse of the
Soviet Union?
11. How did the Allies promote
reconstruction of the defeated Powers?
12. What were the international
cooperative organizations created after
World War II?
Topics
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Define Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Division of Germany/Berlin Airlift
NATO v. Warsaw Pact
Berlin Wall
Nuclear Weapons
Containment/Domino Theory
Around the World
 Turkey
 Guantanamo
 Military Bases
 Cuban Missile Crisis
 Fidel Castro
 Kennedy
 China
 Mao Zedong
 Great Leap Forward
 Cultural Revolution
 Tiananmen Square
 Korean War
 38th Parallel
 Vietnam Conflict
 Ho Chi Minh
 17th Parallel
 Cambodia
 Khmer Rouge
 Pol Pot and killing Fields
10. End of Cold War
 Failure of Command Economy
 Afghanistan
 Gorbachev’s Ideas
 glasnost
 perestroika
11. End of Cold War
 Poland and solidarity
 Reunification of Germany/Fall of Berlin
Wall

World History 2010-2011
Instruction
Time
8 days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 29 section 5
Chapter 30
Fall of Soviet Union
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7.1
16.6
17.1
17.2
Content and Essential Questions
Developments in Third World Nations
1. What were the consequences of
independence in South Asia for the region
and for the world?
2. Why did India and Pakistan fight several
wars over Kashmire?
3. What geographic factors pose challenges
for Bangladesh?
4. What were the outcomes of the Indian
independence movements?
Topics
India
1. New nations emerge
 Creation of India and Pakistan
 Fight over Kashmir
 Sri Lanka
2. Nuclear Arms race
3. Modern Leaders of the Sub-Continent
 Nehru
 Indira Gandhi
4. Pakistan
 Government
 Bangladesh
 Effect of Islamic Fundamentalist (current
situation with the Taliban)
5. How did Malaysia’s approach to ethnic
diversity differ from Myanmar’s?
6. How was Indonesia’s democracy affected
when Suharto gained power?
7. How were corrupt rulers forced from
office in the Philippines?
South East Asia
1. Malaysia
2. Myanmar
3. Indonesia
 Islam
4. Philippines
8. Why did independence movements in
Africa gain success after World War II?
9. What was Kenyatta’s leadership role in
Kenya?
Africa
1. Ghana/Kwame Nkrumah
2. Kenya
 Jomo Kenyatta
3. Republic of the Congo
4. Nigeria
Instruction
Time
7 days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 31
10. What are the main similarities and
differences among Middle Eastern
nations?
11. What were the results of the United
Nations’ decision to end the mandate
system in terms of states created
(locations) and their subsequent
problems?
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S
17 All
16.5-6
Content and Essential Questions
Where Are We Now? The Present
 Contemporary Political, Economic
and Social Issues
1. What new technologies have created
opportunities and challenges?
2. What kinds of threats to national and
global security do nations face today?
3. Why did the U.S. invade Afghanistan?
4. How has terrorism impacted developed
and developing nations in the
contemporary world?
5. What are examples of international
terrorism in our world today that have
impacted developed and developing
nations?
6. Why might the U.S. and Russia be
reluctant to fully commit to nuclear
disarmament?
7. Are “preemptive” wars or wars waged to
prevent other wars or attacks sometimes
necessary?
8. How might nations around the world react
should Middle Eastern nations
democratically elect Islamic
fundamentalist governments?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing
1. Rwanda
2. Darfur
3. Apartheid
Ethic & Religious Conflict
1. Child Soldiers-Invisible Children
2. Sunni v. Shiite
3. Islam v. Judaism v. Christianity
International Terrorism/National Security
1. Define terrorism insurgence
2. Terrorist attacks in the United States
 OKC bombing
 9/11/2001 New York City Twin Towers
3. Resource Conflict (supplemental readings)
 Water (Africa)
 Diamonds
 Oil
 Land: Palestinians v. Israelis
(ch.32/s3)
4.
WMDs and nuclear disarmament
 Nuclear proliferation: Korea, Iran
Pakistan
 Biological: anthrax, dirty bombs
 Chemical
5. Middle East Terrorism and Conflicts
 PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
 Hamas, Islamic Jihad
 Lebanon: Hezbollah
 Islamic Fundamentalism
 Iraq: al Qaeda
 Afghanistan: Taliban
 Iran
Instruction
Time
10 Days
Suggested Resources
Chapter 32 section 2
Chapter 34 section 3 and the
supplemental reading
Chapter 32 section 3
Chapter 34 section 4
The Dark Side of Natural Resources
http://www.globalpolicy.org/the-darkside-of-natural-resources.htmml
Resource Conflict
http://pawss.hampshire.edu/topics/re
sourc/
index.html
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Content and Essential Questions
9. What challenges had Latin American
nations faced in recent decades in their
struggles for democracy and prosperity?
10. How have Latin American governments
tried to improve their economies?
11. What obstacles have stood in the way of
democracy in Latin America?
World History 2010-2011
Topics
Struggles in the Western Hemisphere:
Mexico, Central America, the
Caribbean, South America
7. Overcoming poverty
8. Fighting for democracy
 Threat of communism
 U.S. support
9. Immigration to U.S.
10. On-going war on drugs
11. Oil
12. Effects of NAFTA
Instruction
Time
Suggested Resources
Chapter 33 section 4
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16.6
17.1
17.2
17.4
Content and Essential Questions
The Present-Coming Full Circle
Review and testing for Semester
World History 2010-2011
Topics
See 1st nine Weeks and tie it all together
Instruction
Time
5 days
Suggested Resources
Revisit and Review Chapters 32,
33, and 34
4 days
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