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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why did complex societies (civilizations) develop throughout the world?
DAILY PLANS: The history of the world in maps
August 13: Introduction to World History
August 14: The State of the World Today
August 16: Yali's Question
August 21: The Neolithic Revolution
August 23: The Development of Permanent Settlements (Urbanization)
August 27: The Development of Written Language
August 29: Development of Political Systems (River Civilizations)
August 31: The Rise of Empires (Classical Civilizations)
September 4: The Consolidation of Empires
September 6: Development of Religious Systems
September 10: Extension of Religious Systems
September 12: The Development of Social and Economic Classes
September 14: The Legacies of Classical Empires
September 18: Summative Assessment #1
September 24: The Rise and Spread of Islam
September 26: Biological, Commercial, and Military Exchanges (Plague, Spices, and Crusades)
September 28: The Mongols (Part 1)
October 2: The Mongols (Part 2)
October 4: Land and Sea Trade Networks
October 8: Land and Sea Trade Networks
October 10: Summative Assessment (Test) #2
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How did the interactions between Europe and the rest of the world affect the lives of people in different societies after 1400?
Focus Question (Subunit 2.1): Why did democracy and capitalism develop in Europe?
Focus Question (Subunit 2.2): What was the global impact of Europe's transformation after the Middle Ages?
SUBUNIT 2.1: The Transformation of Europe
October 12: The Rise of Europe (Day 1)
October 16: The Rise of Europe (Day 2)
October 19: The Rise of Europe (Day 3)
October 30: The Commercial Revolution and the Rise of Nation States (Day 1)
November 1: The Commercial Revolution and the Rise of Nation States (Day 2)
November 5: The Commercial Revolution and the Rise of Nation States (Day 3)
November 7: The Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment (Day 1)
November 9: The Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment (Day 2)
November 14: The Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment (Day 3)
November 16: Summative Assessment (Test) #3
SUBUNIT 2.2: The Global Impact of Europe's Rise
November 20: Exploration and the Columbian Exchange (Day 1)
November 26: Exploration and the Columbian Exchange (Day 2)
November 28: Exploration and the Columbian Exchange (Day 3)
November 30: The Gunpowder Empires and Russia (Day 1)
December 4: The Gunpowder Empires and Russia (Day 2)
December 6: The Gunpowder Empires and Russia (Day 3)
December 10: African Societies (Day 1)
December 12: African Societies (Day 2)
December 14: Semester Exam Review Day
December 18: A1 and A2 Exam
December 20: A3 Exam
UNIT DESCRIPTION
This unit will cover the time period from 1750 to 1900. The focus will be on several broad concepts: industrialization and imperialism. These forces transformed the political, economic, and social relationships among people within societies everywhere. They also altered geopolitical relationships among countries globally.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the global effects of industrialization and imperialism?
KEY IDEAS
Industrialization fundamentally changed what people produced and how they produced it.
Industrialists sought new markets in which to obtain raw materials and sell finished goods.
Capitalism is explained and inspired by the theories of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill.
The development and spread of global capitalism led to a variety of responses.
A few small states promoted their own state-sponsored visions of industrialization.
Some states promoted reforms to mitigate the negative effects of capitalism.
Societies altered their patterns of social and economic organization in response to the IR.
Industrializing powers established transoceanic empires.
Spanish and Portuguese influence declined.
European states used both warfare and diplomacy to establish empires in Africa.
In some parts of their empires, Europeans established settler colonies.
Elsewhere, European countries imposed economic imperialism.
Imperialism influenced state formation and contraction around the world.
Anti-imperial resistance led to the contraction of the Ottoman Empire.
DAILY PLANS
January 14: The Industrial Revolution
January 16: The Economic Revolution
January 18: The Spread of the Industrial Revolution to Europe and North America
January 22: The Wonderful World of Adam Smith
January 24: Democratization in England and France
January 28: The Dismal Science (David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus)
January 30: The Industrial Revolution in the Americas
February 1: The Ideas of Karl Marx
February 5: Imperialism in Africa
February 7: Imperialism in the Middle East, India, and SE Asia
February 13: China, Japan, and Russia
February 15: Summative Assessment (Test) #1
UNIT DESCRIPTION
This unit will cover the time period from 1750 to 1900. The focus will be on nationalism and the effects of the spread of European political and social thought in the form of rebellions and new transnational ideologies and movements.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How were the nationalist movements and rebellions in the 19th century similar and how were they different in regard to their causes and consequences?
KEY IDEAS
The development and spread of nationalism as an ideology fostered new communal identities.
The global spread of European political and social thought and the increasing number of rebellions stimulated new transnational ideologies and solidarities.
New racial ideologies, especially Social Darwinism, facilitated and justified imperialism.
The global spread of European political and social thought and the increasing number of rebellions stimulated new transnational ideologies and solidarities.
Increasing questions about political authority and growing nationalism contributed to anticolonial movements.
Some of the rebellions were influenced by religious ideas and millenarianism.
Responses to increasingly frequent rebellions led to reforms in imperial policies.
Discontent with monarchist and imperial rule encouraged the development of political ideologies, including liberalism, socialism, and communism.
Demands for women’s suffrage and an emergent feminism challenged political and gender hierarchies.
DAILY PLANS
February 26: Nationalism in the United States and Japan
February 28: Nationalism in France
March 4: Nationalism in Europe (Revolutions of 1848, German and Italian Unification, and the Balkans)
March 6: Nationalism in Mexico
March 8: Nationalism in India
March 12: Nationalism in South Africa
March 14: Nationalism in China
March 18: Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire
March 20: Researched Essay
March 22: Summative Assessment (Test) #2
UNIT DESCRIPTION
This unit will cover the time period from 1900 to the present. It will focus on the causes and consequences of global conflicts in the twentieth century. These conflicts gradually altered the balance of power globally, as the disproportionate power of European countries at the beginning of the twentieth century waned and gave way to decolonization and new visions of national identity.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What were the causes and consequences of global conflict in the 20th century?
How did different societies react to the decline of imperial states?
KEY IDEAS
Europe dominated the global political order at the beginning of the twentieth century, but both land based and transoceanic empires gave way to new forms of transregional political organization by the century’s end.
The older land-based Ottoman, Russian, and Qing empires collapsed due to a combination of internal and external factors.
Emerging ideologies of anti-imperialism contributed to the dissolution of empires and the restructuring of states.
Nationalist leaders in Asia and Africa challenged imperial rule.
Transnational movements sought to unite people across national boundaries.
The redrawing of old colonial boundaries led to population resettlements.
The proliferation of conflicts led to various forms of ethnic violence and the displacement of peoples resulting in refugee populations.
Military conflicts occurred on an unprecedented global scale.
Improved military technology and new tactics led to increased levels of wartime casualties.
The global balance of economic and political power shifted after the end of World War II and rapidly evolved into the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers, which led to ideological struggles between capitalism and communism throughout the globe.
The Cold War produced new military alliances, including NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and promoted proxy wars in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union effectively ended the Cold War.
Although conflict dominated much of the twentieth century, many individuals and groups — including states — opposed this trend, while others intensified it.
Groups and individuals opposed and promoted alternatives to the existing economic, political, and social orders.
Global conflicts had a profound influence on popular culture.
DAILY PLANS
April 2: The World at War (1900-1945)
April 4: The World at War (1900-1945)
April 8: The World at War (1900-1945)
April 10: The Cold War and Decolonization (A bipolar world)
April 12: The Cold War and Decolonization (A bipolar world)
April 16: The Cold War and Decolonization (A bipolar world)
April 18: The end of the Cold War and its aftermath - unipolar or multipolar?
April 22: The end of the Cold War and its aftermath - unipolar or multipolar?
April 24: The end of the Cold War and its aftermath - unipolar or multipolar?
April 26: Summative Assessment (Test) #3
UNIT DESCRIPTION
This unit will cover the time period from 1900 to the present. It will focus on the economic systems that were developed in different countries to confront the problems presented by industrialization. In addition the unit will cover the ways that notions of race, gender, ethnicity, and human rights evolved during this time period and the extent to which these notions were shaped by economics, politics, religion, and popular culture.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What was the global impact of new ideas in economics, science, and technology in the 20th century?
How do innovations in communication and transportation help create a global culture?
DAILY PLANS
April 30: Introduction to Globalization
May 3: Commanding Heights Project (Day 1)
May 7: Commanding Heights Project (Day 2)
May 9: Commanding Heights Project (Day 3)
May 13: Commanding Heights Project (Day 4)
May 15: Commanding Heights Project (Day 5)
May 17: Commanding Heights Project Culminating Activity
May 21: Exam Review
May 23: Exam Review
May 28: A3 Exam
May 30: A1 and A2 Exams