WORLD HISTORY
WORLD HISTORY STANDARDS (draft)
In high school, students explore a variety of peoples, events, and movements in world history with a focus on inquiry into the impact of social, geographic, political, and economic influences on historical events.
A world history course should include the study of the peoples of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. A balanced approach to the Eastern and Western Hemispheres is needed for a comprehensive study of world history topics.
It is recommended that the course begin with the 15th century to allow for depth of content and connection to current issues and events. A world history course can be organized in a variety of ways including thematic, chronological, regional, or through case studies.
The course should include but is not limited to the following topics of study:
• World Religions including but not limited to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism as well as non-religious worldviews and ideologies such as political correctness, humanism, and secularism; topics may include but are not limited to beliefs about origins of the universe and theisms such as monotheism, polytheism, agnosticism, atheism, etc
• Interregional interactions including but not limited to European exploration, conquest, Columbian exchange and the trans-African and trans-Atlantic slave systems
• Revolutions in thought such as scientific revolution, enlightenment, and renaissance
• Industrial Revolution including impact on both industrialized and non- industrialized nations and the origins of modern economic systems such as capitalism, communism and socialism including influential figures
• Political Revolutions such as French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Latin American Revolutions, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
• Global Imperialism
• National modernization including Japan, Ottoman Empire, India, and Egypt
• World War 1 including causes, characteristics, and consequences
• Inter-war period including the world-wide depression, rise of fascism, totalitarianism, the spread of communism, and nationalism in China, Turkey, and India
• World War II including causes, characteristics, and consequences
• Holocaust and modern genocides
• The Cold War including origins, the emergence of the Soviet Union and communist China, conflicts such as the Korean War, space race, arms race and its impact on third world countries • Decolonization, democratization and the legacy of Imperialism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
• End of the Cold War including the collapse of the Soviet Union and its impacts on the international community
• Contemporary global issues including but not limited to global terrorism, globalization, conflict in the Middle East, human rights, regional conflicts, population, environmental issues, technology and information age.
HISTORY SKILLS AND PROCESSES
The development of civilizations, societies, cultures, and innovations have influenced history and continue to impact the modern world.
• HS.H1.1 Explain the process of state-building, expansion, and dissolution.
• HS.H1.2 Explain and compare how social, cultural, and environmental factors influenced state-building, expansion, and dissolution.
• HS.H1.3 Evaluate the consequences that resulted from civilizational and cultural interactions.
• HS.H1.4 Analyze the impact of cultural diffusion.
• HS.H1.5 Explain how religions and belief systems have affected the origins of societies.
• HS.H1.6 Analyze the relationship among different regional, social, ethnic, and racial groups and explain how these groups’ experiences have related to national identities.
• HS.H1.7 Analyze how technological innovation has affected economic development and transformed societies.
Cycles of conflict and cooperation have shaped relations among people, places, and environments.
• HS.H2.1 Explain multiple causes of conflict.
• HS.H2.2 Analyze approaches to conflict management and resolution.
• HS.H2.3 Evaluate the short- and long- term impacts of conflicts and their resolutions.
• HS.H2.4 Compare causes and effects of isolationism and globalism.
Economic, political, and religious ideas and institutions have influenced history and continue to shape the modern world.
• HS.H3.1 Analyze how societies, leaders, institutions, and organizations respond to societal needs and changes.
• HS.H3.2 Analyze how ideologies, religion, and belief systems have influenced economic, political, and social institutions over time.
• HS.H3.3 Compare the ways in which economic philosophies influenced political, economic, and social developments.
• HS.H3.4 Evaluate how societies have balanced individual freedoms, responsibilities, and human dignity versus the common good.
• HS.H3.5 Explain how different labor systems developed and affected societies over time.
Patterns of social and political interactions have shaped people, places, and events throughout history and continue to shape the modern world.
• HS.H4.1 Examine how historically marginalized groups have affected change on political and social institutions.
• HS.H4.2 Explain how artistic, philosophical, and scientific ideas have developed and shaped society and institutions.
• HS.H4.3 Examine how access to information and technology has been used to influence society.
• HS.H4.4 Examine how a diverse society can be a force for unity and/or disunity.
