HS World History

Michigan’s World History and Geography content expectations encourage students to work with and across different scales of time and space to investigate global patterns and developments over time while connecting more local patterns to larger interregional and global patterns, employ different analytical schemes, including global, regional, national and local to understand developments over time, compare within and among regions and societies, and across time, develop an understanding of the historical and geographic context of human commonalities and differences, particularly in considering claims of universal standards or of cultural diversity.

In their studies students will focus on five large historical and geographic patterns • The causes, consequences, and patterns of changes in human governance systems and changes over time. •The causes, consequences, and patterns of interactions among societies and regions, including trade, war, diplomacy, and international institutions. • The impact of demographic, technological, environmental, and economic changes on people, their culture, and their environment. • Causes, consequences, and patterns of cultural, intellectual, religious and social changes across the world, and among and within societies. • The relationship between the environment and global and regional developments in population, settlement, economy, and politics.

The high school expectations begin with a short set of foundational expectations, and include ERAs 4-8 and conclude with a set of contemporary global issues.

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