1. Humans developed from hunter-gathers to early civilization.
2. Agricultural settlements were developed around social, cultural, and
economic characteristics.
Processes
Writing Process
Organizing Ideas
Students will understand how early humans survived.
2. Students will trace the transition from hunter-gatherers to the river
valley civilizations.
3. Students will recognize how early civilizations developed.
Details
Neolithic Revolution
Domestication
Development of government/religion
Development of technology/language
governmental/religious philosophies
Nile, Indus, Mesopotamia, China
Skills
Assign a scale to years of time.
Compare and contrast writing.
Development of civilizations in sequential order.
Vocabulary
Culture Fertile Crescent artifact Feudalism
City-state technology dynasty artisan
Nomads cultural diffusion hunter-gatherers barter
Polytheism domestication theocracy
Civilization empire specialization
World History Benchmark #2
Standard Indicator: 2 Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome
2.1 – Define civilization and identify the key differences between civilizations and other forms of social organizations
2.2 – Compare causes and conditions by which civilizations developed in North Africa, Southwest Asia, South Asia and East Asia.
2.3 – Differentiate hierarchies in the social structures of early civilized peoples and explain the influence of religious belief systems
2.4 – Explain relationships in early civilizations between the development of state authority and the growth of aristocratic power, taxation systems and institutions of coerced labor, including slavery.
2.6 – Analyze the major events of the wars between the Persians and the Greeks, reasons why the Persians failed to conquer the Greeks
2.7 – Compare and contrast the daily life, social hierarchy, culture and institutions of Athens and Sparta
2.8 – Describe the role of Alexander the Great in the spread of Hellenism in Southwest and South Asia, North Africa; and part of Europe
2.9 – Describe Roman Republican government and society and trace the changes that culminated in the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire
2.11 – Explain the origins of Christianity, including the lives and teachings of Jesus and Paul, and the relationships of early Christians with the Roman Empire.
2.12 – Analyze the causes, conditions and consequences of the spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire, including the policies of Emperor Constantine the Great.
2.13 – Explain the causes, conditions and consequences of the decline and fall of the western part of the Roman Empire.
Declarative Knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
Concepts
1. Governments developed during this time period.
2. Modern religions developed during this time period.
3. Cultural evolution has distinct phases
4. Summarize the growth of empires.
Processes
Writing Process
Reading Process
Organizing Ideas
Students will trace the origins of early Greek city-states.
Students will identify major personalities and their impact in Greece and Rome.
Students will describe early patterns of government.
Students will understand the affect of Christianity and the many wars in the Mediterranean region.
Students will understand the development of the Roman Republic
Students will identify the birth of democracy
Students will identify the affect of the Caesars on the governing of the Roman Empire
Students will interpret the impact of the philosophers/educators of Greece.
Students will compare and contrast the major philosophers/educators of ancient Greece
Students will compare and contrast the difference between Athens and Sparta.
Draw conclusions about the impact of the growth and spread of Christianity.
Details
Trojan War
Peloponnesian War
Persian Wars
Punic Wars
Roman/Greek achievement
Roman/Greek expansion
Rise of Christianity
Fall of Rome
Greece government
Rome government
Skills
Summarize
Paraphrase
Steps of analysis
Steps of evaluation
Write a compare
and contrast essay
Vocabulary
polis consuls philosophers civilization
monarchy senate Hellenistic culture
aristocracy dictator republic
oligarchy absolute ruler classical arts
myths heresy tyrant
inflation democracy Greco-Roman Culture
World History Benchmark #3
Standard Indicator: 3 Major Civilizations and Empires: 1000 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
3.2 – Examine, interpret and compare the main ideas of Hinduism and Buddhism and explain their influence on civilization in India
3.3 – Explain how Buddhism spread and influenced peoples and their cultures throughout South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia
3.4 – Trace the development and major achievements of Chinese and East Asia civilizations during various key dynasties
3.5 – Describe the life of Confucius, compare and contrast the fundamental teachings of Confucianism and Daoism
3.7 – Describe the life of Muhammad, fundamental teachings of Islam, and connections of Islam to Judaism and Christianity
3.8 – Trace the extent and consequences of Islam’s spread in Asia, the Mediterranean region and southern Europe
3.9 – Explain how the community of Muslims became divided into Sunnis and Shiites and the long term consequences of this division
9.1 – Identify patterns of historical change and duration and construct a representation that illustrates continuity and change
9.4 – Investigate and interpret multiple causation in analyzing historical actions, and analyze cause – and – effect relationships
Declarative Knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
Concepts
Major religions and their role in the development of society.
Processes
1. Reading Process
Organizing Ideas
Compare Hinduism and Buddhism and explain their influence on civilization.
Describe the connection of Islam to Judaism and Christianity.
Explain the division of Muslims into Sunnis and Shiites.
Details
Development of Hinduism
Development of Buddhism
Development of Judaism
Development of Christianity
Development of Islam
Skills
Reading territorial maps
Reading and interpreting
graphs and charts
Steps of Analysis
Steps of Evaluation
Vocabulary
Torah monotheism
Quran Theravaada
Muhammad Siddhartha Gautama
Jesus Masque
Abraham
Moses
Matriarchal
Patriarchal
Mahayana
World History Benchmark #4
Standard Indicator: 4 – Medieval Europe to the Rise and Development of Western Civilization: 500 – 1650
4.1/4.2 Describe the impact on Western Europe of the collapse of the Roman Empire and the impact of Christian monasteries.
4.3 Describe the rise and achievements of Charlemagne and the Empire of the Franks
4.4 Explain how the idea of Christendom influenced the development of cultural unity in Europe
4.5 Describe how technology improvements in agriculture, the growth of towns, the creation of guilds, and the development of banking during the middle ages, as well as institutions of feudalism the manorial system influenced European civilization
4.7/4.9 Explain the Great Schism of 1054 and the development of Eastern and Western branches of Christianity.
4.8 Explain the causes of the Crusades and their consequences for Europe and Southwest Asia.
4.10 Trace the origins and developments of the Northern Renaissance and the Italian Renaissance.
4.11/4.12/4.13 Describe and analyze the factors, main themes, and achievements of the Protestant Reformation.
Declarative Knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
Concepts
Europe developed politically, economically, socially, and culturally from 500 to 165
Processes
Writing Process
Reading Process
Organizing Ideas
Students will analyze how the fall of the Roman Empire led to the feudal system.
Students will describe how the relationship between early kings and the church led to the growth of papal authority.
Students will identify the causes that led the development of the cities.
Students will differentiate the impact of technology during each phase of this unit.
Students will recognize how movements such as the Reformation brought about a decline in church power.
Details
Development of Feudalism
Development of chivalry
Carolingian Dynasty
Holy Roman Empire
Great Schism
Byzantine Empire
Renaissance
Protestant Reformation
Catholic Reformation
Magna Carta
Hundred Years War
Crusades
Technological
development
Skills
Categorize the major
personalities of the
Renaissance.
Chart the development
of technology.
Evaluate the causes
and effect of the fall
of the Roman Empire.
Trace the
developments of the
Renaissance.
Compare and contrast
the Protestant and
Catholic Reformation.
Vocabulary
Middle Ages troubadour
Franks clergy parliament
Monastery sacrament
Secular canon law Renaissance Holy Roman Empire humanism
Manor
Tithe simony Reformation
Serf gothic Peace of Augsburg
Lord
Fief Protestant
Vassal inquisition predestination
Knight vernacular
Chivalry guild Council of Trent scholastics
Bubonic plague
utopia
World History Benchmark #5
Standard Indicator: 5 – Worldwide Exploration, Conquest, and Colonization: 1450 – 1750
5.1 Explain the causes and conditions of worldwide voyages of exploration and discovery by expeditions from China, Portugal, Spain, France, England and the Netherlands.
5.2 Explain the origins, developments and consequences of the transatlantic slave trade between Africa and Americas.
5.3 Explain the origins, developments, main events and consequences of European overseas expansion through conquest and colonization in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
5.4 Identify major technological innovations in shipbuilding, navigation, and naval warfare, and explain how these technological advances were related to voyages of exploration, conquest and colonization
Declarative Knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
Concepts
Worldwide exploration caused conquest and colonization from 1450 to 1750.
Processes
Reading Process
Organizing Ideas
Students will summarize the events that led to worldwide exploration.
Students will evaluate the causes of conquest and colonization.
Students will consider the consequences of the slave trade.
Students will identify the major technological innovations in shipbuilding, navigation, and naval warfare.
Details
Transatlantic slave trade
Ming Dynasty
Technological development
Qing Dynasty
Tokugawa Shogunate
Isolationism
North American Settlements
Aztecs
Incas
Colonization
Mercantilism
Skills
1. Read and use Maps, charts, globes,
graphs
Vocabulary
Transatlantic Manchus
Colonization daimyo
East India Company shoguns
Treaty of Tordesillas
Conquest
Mestizo
Mullatto
New France
New Spain
New England
Triangular trade
Middle passage
Columbian Exchange
Capitalism
Joint Stock Company
World History Benchmark #6
Standard Indicator: 6 – Scientific, Political, Cultural, and Industrial Revolutions: 1500-1900
9.1 Identify patterns of historical change and duration and construct a representation that illustrates continuity and change.
9.3 Investigate and interpret multiple causation in analyzing historical actions, and analyze cause-and-effect relationships
9.5 Use technology in the process of conducting historical research and in the presentation of the products of historical research and current events
6.1 Examine how the Scientific Revolution, as well as technological changes and new forms of energy, brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change.
6.2 Trace the origins and consequences of the English Civil War on the government and society of England.
6.4 Compare and contrast the causes and events of the American and French Revolutions of the late eighteenth century and explain consequences for the growth of liberty, equality and democracy in Europe, the Americas and other parts of the world
6.7 Analyze and evaluate the influence of Christianity, the Enlightenment and democratic revolutions and ideas in various regions of the world
Declarative Knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
Concepts
Revolutionary events caused global consequences in Western Europe from 1500 to 1900.
Processes
Scientific Method
Federal System
Nation-State
Historical
Research
Organizing Ideas
Students will compare and contrast the causes and events that led to the major revolutions of this time period.
Students will describe the impact of that the Enlightenment had upon political thought in government.
Students will evaluate how the competition for resources led to many of the revolutions.
Details
Scientific Revolution
French Revolution
American Revolution
English Civil War
Industrial Revolution
Latin American Independence
Enlightenment
Declaration of Independence
Skills
Reading maps,
graphs, charts,
Analysis of
historical events
and outcomes.
Vocabulary
Absolute monarch
Divine rights
Skepticism
Edict of Nante
Westernization
Restoration
Habeas Corpus
Constitutional Monarchy
Parliament
Heliocentric Theory
Social Contract
Natural Rights
Separation of powers
Baroque
Neoclassical
Enlightened despot
Checks and Balances
Bill of Rights
Estates
National Assembly
Great Fear
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Coup de tat
Napoleonic Code
Battle of Trafalgar
Blockade
Continental System
Guerilla
Scorched earth policy
Waterloo
Balance of Power
Holy Alliance
Concert of Europe
Peninsulars
Creoles
Conservatives
Liberals
Radicals
Nationalism
Balkans
Realpolitik
Kaiser
Romanticism
Realism
Impressionism
Reign of Terro
World History Benchmark #7
Standard Indicator: 7 and 8 – Global Imperialism: 1500 to present
An Era of Global Conflicts, Challenges, Controversies and Changes: 1900 to present
7.1 Discuss, Trace, and analyze the rise of nationalism in Europe, North America and Asia and explain the causes of main events and global consequences of imperialism and World War I.
7.3 Analyze Japanese responses to challenges by Western imperial powers and the impact of these responses on Japan’s subsequent development as an industrial, military and imperial power.
8.3 Compare the totalitarian ideologies, institutions and leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Germany and Italy in the 1920s, 1920s, and 1940s.
8.4 Identify and analyze the causes, events and consequences of World War II
8.5 Explain the origins and purposes of international alliances in the context of World War I and War II
8.6 Explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War.
8.7 Identify new post-war nations in South and Southeast Asia and Africa that were created from former colonies, and describe the reconfiguration of the African continent.
8.9 Describe ethnic or nationalistic conflicts and violence in various parts of the world, including Southeastern Europe, Southwest and Central Asia, and subSaharan Africa
9.3 Investigate and interpret multiple causations in analyzing historical actions, and analyze cause-and-effect relationships.
Declarative Knowledge
Procedural Knowledge
Concepts
Significant political, social, and economic events changed the world from 1900 to the present.
Processes
1. Research and writing process
Organizing Ideas
Students will trace and explain the political, social, and economic changes in the world due to World War I and II.
Students will analyze the revolutions that led to the fall and rise of governments.
Students will compare and contrast the different ideologies that emerged during this time period.
Students will discuss the successes and failures of democratic reform movements.
Details
Causes and outcomes of WWI: alliances, imperialism, milittarism, nationalism
Causes and outcomes of WWII: facism, Nazism, totalitarianism, Treaty of Versailles, Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Holocaust, Nuremburg Trials, Cold War, Iron Curtain, Containment, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Warsaw Pact
Brinkmanship, Space race, SALT, domino theory, detante,
Skills
Maps, charts, graphs, globes
Analysis of the causes and effects of WWI, WWII, and the Cold War.