Name: Dysart District Social Studies Department World History: Teacher’s Guide

The New 2009-2010 World History Curriculum has many changes to content. These changes include the incorporation of elements from the former World Cultures Class and additional Global History and Geography content. In short, World History is not just about Europe anymore. This teacher’s guide contains background information on the new “Global” content. Also the new curriculum focuses heavily on comparisons between the different people, cultures, civilizations, and regions in World History.

River Valley Civilizations:

1. Emphasis on reasons why river valleys were where the first civilizations developed. 2. Identification of Yellow, Nile, Indus, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as the Cradles of Civilizations. 3. Similarities and Differences between the River Valley Civilizations including: -development of writing in Egypt and Mesopotamia -Chinese isolation -urban planning, large size, and disappearance of Harappan Civilization -trade connections between Mesopotamia, Egypt, and South Asia China:

1. Why did Chinese civilization start along the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers? 2. Discussion of whether China was really isolated? 3. Belief systems of Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism 4. Concept of the Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Cycle 5. Dynasties including: Qin- unified China Han- comparisons to Roman Empire Tang and Song- Golden Age of China, comparing Chinese Golden Age to Pax Romana, Renaissance, Gupta Golden Age, Islamic Golden Age Yuan- Mongol rule of China, increased trade and use of the Silk Road Ming- voyages of Zheng He and Indian Ocean trade, move to isolation Qing- imperialism in China, Opium Wars, Boxer and Taiping Rebellions, spheres of influence, collapse of the Dynasty System 6. Indian Ocean and Silk Road Trade 7. Xian as trade and cultural center like Timbuktu, Constantinople, and Baghdad. 8. Chinese Civil War and Communist Revolution in China 1927-1949. 9. Communism in China: Mao, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square

India/South Asia:

1. Indus River Civilization: Mohenjo-daro and Harappa 2. Hinduism, the Caste System as hierarchy with lack of social mobility , Buddhism 3. Affects of the monsoon 4. Alexander the Greats conquest of 5. Trade: with Mesopotamia, Silk Road, Indian Ocean 6. Ashoka, Gupta Golden Age 7. British imperialism, Sepoy Rebellion 8. Gandhi, Independence and Partition

Japan:

1. Geography, island location, lack of resources 2. Korea as cultural bridge between China and Japan 3. Shintoism and Buddhism 4. Feudalism, comparisons to European Feudalism and Caste System 5. Meiji Restoration and modernization policies of Emperor Meiji, compare Meiji to other modernizers in history ex. Ataturk, Peter the Great 6. Role in World War II

Africa:

1. Trade: salt, gold, slaves, West African Trading Kindoms (Ghana, Mali, Songhai), Indian Ocean trade with China, Arabia, and India 2. Slave trade, role in triangular trade, reasons African slaves were needed in the Americas 3. Timbuktu as trade, religious and cultural center. 4. Connection between spread of Islam and trade in Africa. 5. Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa 6. African Nationalism, Mau Mau Rebellion, African Independence 7. South Africa, Apartheid, and Nelson Mandela

Latin America:

1. Pre-Columbian Civilizations: Aztecs, Incas, Mayas 2. Comparing Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans to other great Empires. 3. Incan Road Systems 4. Effects of Age of Exploration, European Colonialism on the Americas, Columbian Exchange, Mercantilism, Slave Trade 5. Latin American Revolutions and Nationalism

Trade and Cultural Diffusion: 1. Conquests of Alexander the Great 2. Silk Roads 3. Xian, Constantinople, Baghdad 4. Roman and Incan Roads 5. West African Trading Kingdoms 6. Zheng He and Indian Ocean Trade 7. Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo 8. Age of Exploration

Revolutions:

1. Common causes of major revolutions in history. 2. Boxer, Sepoy, Mau Mau and other anti-colonial/imperial revolutions 3. Meiji Restoration 4. Chinese Revolution and Civil War 1927-1949, compare to Russian and other major revolutions. 5. Latin American Revolutions, compared to other revolutions, influence of the French Revolution and Enlightenment

Golden Ages: 1. Common characteristics of Golden Ages 2. Comparison of Golden Ages 3. Major achievements of: -Athenian Golden Age -Pax Romana -Gupta Golden Age in India -Tang and Song Dynasties in China -Renaissance Europe