Construct compelling questions.

Construct supporting questions.

Analyze details, central ideas and inferences from sources.

Assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources.

Multiple perspectives.

Construct claims and counter-claims.

Construct arguments.

Examples of turning points in modern world history.

Effects of significant turning points in modern world history.

How women, indigenous, racial, and ethnic individuals and groups have impacted modern world history.

How political and religious groups have impacted modern world history.

Examples of different ways in which societies are affected by globalization.

Examples of ways societies and individuals have responded to globalization .

Similarities and differences between individual and societal responses to globalization.

Examples of global cooperative efforts and consensus-building .

Examples of various perspectives of global cooperative efforts and consensus-building.

Examples of criteria used to evaluate the effectiveness of international cooperative efforts.

Examples of slavery, xenophobia, disenfranchisement, ethnocentrism, and intolerance in different societies.

How the effects of slavery, xenophobia, disenfranchisement, ethnocentrism and intolerance impact both recipients and perpetrators.

Various sources of governmental power and authority in a society.

Examples of how conflict created by a government's power and authority led to societal change.

Examples of conflict between religious and secular thought.

Various societies that have had governmental change due to conflict between religious and secular thought.

Examples of changes of government in modern societies.

Examples of the pros and cons of governmental change on citizens.

Examples of various ideas that shaped modern political thought.

Ways new ideas can influence change in a society.

The development of economic systems may vary based on the social, political and economic  priorities of a society.

Access to land, labor, natural resources, and capital may affect the development of the economic system of a nation.

Nations may form alliances to protect their economic interests.

International alliances may encourage competition and interdependence.

Economic growth and stability may be achieved through international alliance and economic interdependence.

Economic interdependence may be a factor in the development of national and international economic decisions.

The production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services can be greatly influenced by the economic system of a nation.

The types of economic activity in a society are driven by its economic and political system.

The competition for scarce resources may lead to international conflicts.

Nations may engage in alliances in order to protect and access desired resources.

Nations may seek control over territories in order to gain control of resources.

The practices of economic systems may result in the exploitation of natural resources of a region.

The economic system of a society can lead to the interaction between or invasion of societies which may result in practices that exploit the culture, resources, and indigenous groups of a region or society.

The economic system in a society results in use of natural resources from a region, which can have positive and/or negative consequences on the environment.