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Welcome to World History! I hope to take our class on an adventure through time as we examine how the world’s peoples and cultures rose, fell, cooperated, and clashed. Together we will investigate how the events of the past have influenced and relate to the world we know today.
James Hill
FCHS - Social Studies
World History
Hill - World History - Year Plan
1st Quarter (Weeks 1 - 9) The Foundations of Civilization
Week 1: The Paleolithic Era
Week 2: The Neolithic Era
Week 3: Mesopotamia
Week 4: Ancient Egypt
Week 5: Israel, Phoenicia, and Persia
Week 6: Ancient Greece: Geography, Minoa, Mycenae, and Homer
Week 7: Ancient Greece: Sparta & Athens, the Persian Wars, and Athenian Democracy
Week 8: Ancient Greece: The Peloponnesian War, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Week 9: Ancient Greece: Phillip II, Alexander the Great, Hellenistic Civilization, Quarter exam
2nd Quarter (Weeks 10 - 18) Rome and the Rise of Christianity
Week 10: Rome: Geography, Origins, the Roman Republic, the Twelve Tables
Week 11: Rome: the Punic Wars, Roman Expansion, the Roman Military
Week 12: Rome: Julius Caesar, Augustus, The Roman Empire
Week 13: Rome: Daily Life in Rome, Roman Engineering, Roman Law
Week 14: Rome: The Rise of Christianity, Jesus, Paul, and the Early Church
Week 15: Rome: Constantine, the Fall of Rome, Barbarian Kingdoms
Week 16: The Byzantine Empire
Week 17: Pre-Islamic Middle East, Birth of Islam, The Middle Eastern Golden Age
Week 18: Quarter review, Quarter exam
3rd Quarter (Weeks 19 - 27) The Medieval World and the Renaissance
Week 19: Geography of Medieval Europe, Feudalism and Manorialism
Week 20: The Medieval Church, Monasticism, and Cathedrals
Week 21: The Crusades and Cultural Exchange
Week 22: The Magna Carta, The Hundred Years’ War, The Black Death
Week 23: Dawn of the Renaissance, Florence, Humanism
Week 24: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael
Week 25: The Northern Renaissance, The Printing Press
Week 26: The Protestant Reformation, Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII
Week 27: The Catholic Reformation, Religious Wars, Quarter Review, Quarter Exam
4th Quarter (Weeks 28 - 36) The Modern West
Week 28: The Scientific Revolution, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton
Week 29: The Enlightenment, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau
Week 30: The American Revolution, The French Revolution
Week 31: Napoleon, The Congress of Vienna
Week 32: The Industrial Revolution, Urbanization, Labor
Week 33: Nationalism, Liberalism, New Imperialism
Week 34: World War I, The Russian Revolution
Week 35: World War II, Fascism, Communism
Week 36: The Cold War, Modern Europe and America, Final Exam
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