Period 1: Foundations (to 600 BCE)
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1.1 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth 1.2 Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies 1.3 Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban Societies TOPICS Migration patterns (settling of planet) Why humans migrated into certain areas Forging and agriculture society
Foraging to Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Early Civilizations: Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania UEQs What is civilization? How did we become “civilized?” Do external or internal factors drive change in “civilization?” What distinguished civilizations from other forms of human community? What are common features of empire? |
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Period 2: Classical (600 BCE-600 CE)
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2.1Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions 2.2Development of States and Empires 2.3Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange
TOPICS Religion in China South Asia Buddhism Humanism Silk Road Spread of Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism Caste system Bantu Indian Ocean and Oceania trade Sub-Saharan trade Greek-Roman Civilization Trans-continental trade in the Americas UEQs What philosophical, religious, or cultural ideas served to legitimate the class and gender inequalities of classical civilizations? In what ways did commercial development foster change is civilizations? How did China influence the world beyond East Asia? How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world? How did the histories of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe differ during the era of third-wave civilizations? How might you account for the immense religious and political/military success of Islam in its early centuries? In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ from them? Why did it last a relatively short time? |
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Period 3: Post-Classical (600 CE to 1450 CE)
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3.1 Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks 3.2 Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
TOPICS Australia compared to North America Ming Dynasty Aztec and Incas Western Europe Explorers Ottoman Empire New Spain Russia Silver and slave trade Protestant Reformation UEQs What developments in their respective civilizations led to the expansion/explorations of the Chinese and Europeans? What new technology? Why did Chinese exploration end How does the development of civilization in the Andes compare with that in the Himalayas? How does the development of capitalism affect world trade systems? What demographic changes (growth of new urban centers, population shifts, etc.) follow the gunpowder empires? How do we distinguish among the various kinds of societies that comprised the world of the fifteenth century? |
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Period 4: Early Modern (1450-1750)
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4.1 Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange 4.2New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production 4.3State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion TOPICS Transformations in Europe – Renaissance to Scientific Revolution Encounters and Exchange: Reconquista, Europe in Africa, Spanish in the Americas Encounters and Exchange: Portuguese and Indian Ocean Trade networks, Southwest Asian trade networks and the Ming Slave trade/Rise of Qing Labor Systems in the Atlantic World—The Africanization of the Americas The Columbian Exchange in Atlantic and Pacific Context Expansion of Global Economy and Absolutism: Muslim, Tokugawa, and Romanov empires Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade on demography in West Africa, resistance to the Atlantic slave trade, and expansion of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa UEQs In comparing European empires in the Americas with the Russian, Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires, should world historians emphasize the similarities or the differences? What are the implications of the approach? In what specific ways did trade foster change in the world of early modern era? Compare and contrast the processes by which Christianity and Islam became world religions. |
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Period 5: Modern (1750-1900)
KEY CONCEPTS Key Concept 5.1. Industrialization and Global Capitalism Key Concept 5.2. Imperialism and Nation—State Formation Key Concept 5.3. Nationalism, Revolution and Reform Key Concept 5.4. Global Migration TOPICS Revolutions in Europe, Americas, Africa, and Asia Haitian Revolution French Revolution Women’s Rights Industrial Revolution Socialism European racism towards Africa and Asia Imperialism in Asia, Africa, and Americas Rise of Japan UEQs How does technology drive Industrial Revolution? How does Industrial Revolution lead to new migration patterns? How did Imperialism and Nationalism in Europe grow out of Industrialization? How did Socialism rise in Eurasia? How did social and economic issues lead to expansion of slave trade? How did European Nationalism reshape the global map and its impact on Africa, EurAsia, and Australia? How did new philosophies lead to revolts in France, Haiti, and China? Do revolutions originate in oppression and injustice, in the weakening of political authorities, in new ideas, or in the activities of small groups of determined activist? What did humankind gain from the Industrial Revolution, and what did it lose? Why were Asian and African societies incorporated into European colonial empires later than those of Americas? How would you compare their colonial experience? |
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Period 6: Contemporary (1900-Present)
KEY CONCEPTS
Key Concept 6.1. Science and the Environment Key Concept 6.2. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences Key Concept 6.3. New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society and Culture TOPICS World War I, Total War, and Reactions to the Fourteen Points Rise of Consumerism and Internalization of Culture Depression and Authoritarian Responses World War II and Forced Migrations United Nations and Decolonization Cold War, Imperialism, and the End of the Cold War The Information and Communication Technologies Revolution UEQs What aspects of Europe's nineteenth-century history contributed to the First World War? In what ways did fascism challenge the ideas and practices of European liberalism and democracy? Why did communist regimes generate so much terror and violence on such a massive scale? What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration? What factors contributed to economic globalization during the twentieth century? What new or sharper divisions has economic globalization generated? |
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