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INDIVIDUAL & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & RESPONSIBILITY | How do groups and institutions work to meet individual needs, promote the common good, and address persistent social issues?
What are the consequences of tensions and cooperation among individuals, groups, and institutions?
What influences how humans learn, perceive, and grow? | Renaissance
Europe
World War I - Rise of fascism
- Technology of
Government - Absolutism and absolute monarchs
- Foundations of democracy
The Enlightenment
(e.g. Rousseau, Montesquieu, John Locke, Voltaire)
Revolution
(e.g. English, Glorious, French, Napoleonic Europe, Russian)
Reformation
Analyze patters of political and economic change | |
TIME, CONTINUITY & CHANGE | What sequences of events and turning points are important in history? Why are they important?
Why is the past important to us today?
How do historical perspectives reflect varying points of view and invasion contemporary ideas and influence actions? | Literature - Reflects the culture of a civilization at various points in time
Communication systems - Differ from culture to culture and evolve over time
Organize historical thought
*Chronological frameworks * Construct accurate timelines
Analyze patterns of political and economic change | Dante, Machiavelli, Chaucer, Erasmus, and Shakespeare, as well as Japanese and Chinese poetry styles, and epic poems
Chinese calligraphy, alphabet, printing press, telegraph, telephone
Construct accurate timelines placing significant ideas, institutions, people, and events in appropriate time sequences. |
PEOPLE, PLACES, & ENVIRONMENT | What is the effect of geography on civilization?
How have relationships humans forged with places changed over time?
How are global regions defined by physical and human characteristics? | Europe
Africa
Asia (China, Japan , India)
Middle East
Americas
Global | |
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS | What are the universal links between past and present culture?
How do developing societies respond to social and environmental determinants?
| Africa - Political/cultural borders
- Colonization/imperialism (e.g. Berlin Conference, Triangual trade)
- Cultural diffusion
- Linguistics (e.g. Bantu language)
China - Dynasties and empires (e.g. Ming, Mongol)
- Commercial colonization
- Trade systems
- Belief systems (e.g. Confucianism)
Japan India - Colonization/imperialism
- Belief systems (e.g. Hinduism)
Middle East - Emergence of belief systems and impact on cultural relations
Americas - Belief systems
- Cultural development
- Economic development
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GLOBAL ECONOMICS | How do economic systems shape society and influence interactions between societies and cultures?
How do markets develop and work? | Europe - Industrial Revolution
- Means of production- natural resources
- Economic theorists (e.g. Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Thomas Mathus)
Supply and demand
European mercantilism
World Trade
Money | |
POWER, AUTHORITY, GOVERNANCE | What is the role of religion in governance?
What are the purposes and functions of government?
Under what circumstances is the exercise of political power legitimate? | Europe? - Nationalism
- Rise and fall of empires (e.g. Ottoman, Holy ▪▪Roman, Austrian, Bolshevik Revolution, Czarist Russia)
- Building of nations (e.g. Germany, Italy, France, Russia)
- Realignment of world powers and the role Europe plays within it
- Primary source documents
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