Grade 8

World History I is a course designed to foster students’ critical and historical thinking skills as they study the interwoven relationships of cultures and geography, and the development of social, economic, and political structures throughout the world at various times. This program offers a balanced examination of the political, social, cultural and technological changes that occurred in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and the Americas from the birth of civilization to the middle of the 17th century. (WTSD 2022)