WORLD HISTORY JULY, 2002
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course offers a survey of history that examines topics ranging from the development of the worl9in the Middle Ages to the problems the world faces as it enters the 21st century. Major topics examined include the emergence of the "modem" world (1000-1500), the age of exploration (1450-1770), revolutions, ideologies, and technological change (1750-1914) and the 2Oth Century world (1900- present). Students will develop historical knowledge of major events and phenomena in world history.
STATE STANDARDS MET: 1: Students will employ chronological concepts in analyzing historical phenomena [ Chronology ]. 4: Students will develop historical knowledge of major events and phenomena in world, United States, and Delaware history [Content].
UNIT I: THE MIDDLE AGES (A.D. 500-1500): 5 WEEKS The Middle Ages serve as a bridge between the ancient and the modem world. This unit examines the many problems faced by Europeans during this difficult period of war, plunder, and hardship. Furthermore, during the Middle Ages, Europeans slowly began the transformation that would ultimately result in the formation of modem Europe. OBJECTIVES: 1. Explain how did the political and economic system of feudalism affect Europeans during the Middle Ages. 2. Describe how the Roman Catholic Church contributed to the spread of Christianity throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. 3. Identify the factors that led to the emergence of European monarchies 4. Explain the problems faced by the Church at the end of the Middle Ages
KEY TERMS: The Franks
Feudalism
fief Lord/Vassal
homage
manorialism chivalry
serf
sacraments lay investiture heresy
excommunication common law
grand jury
bourgeoisie William the Conqueror
Henry II
Thomas Becket The Crusades
the Seljuk Turks
Pope Urban II guild
100 Years War
Joan of Arc
POSSIBLE SPECIAL PROJECTS: 1. Write a historical fiction narrative set in medieval Europe which combines actual. leaders and situations with fictitious characters. 2. MANY projects for this unit can be adapted easily from the following websites: The OnLine Medieval and Classical Library: http://sunsite.berkeley .edu/OMACL WWW Medieval Resources: http:/ /ebbs.english. vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.htm1 Images of Medieval Art and Architecture: http:/ /www l.pitt.edu/ ~medart/index.html
SUPPLEMENTARY SOURCES/READINGS Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Centurv. POSSIBLE FILMS: Joan of Arc BecketUNIT II: RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, & EXPLORATION (1350- 1600): 5 WEEKS The Renaissance and Reformation changed European culture and created powerful political alliances. Europeans set out on uncharted seas to explore the world as powerful monarchs competed for trade, influence, and territory.
OBJECTIVES: 1. Explain how the Renaissance emphasized individualism and how the Protestant Reformation established new forms of Christianity 2. Understand how Europeans explored and colonized the Americas, Mrica, and Asia.
KEY TERMS: humanism
Machiavelli
Michaelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Medici
florence Gutenberg
Erasmus
Luther justification by faith
indulgences
Wittenberg Worms predestination
Zwingli Calvin
Anabaptists
Henry VIII Council of Trent
cartography
circumnavigation Prince Henry
Dias
da Garna Columbus
Magellan
Cape of Good Hope conquistador
triangular trade
middle passage Cortes Pizarro
Montezuma Hudson
Cartier
Cabot Aztecs
Mayas
Incas mercantilism
bullion
POSSIBLE SPECIAL PROJECTS: 1. Analyze Renaissance art and describe the differences between particular artists as well as from artwork from earlier time periods. 2. Construct a chart that compares medieval knowledge, attitudes, and styles with those that emerged during the Renaissance. Categories might include philosophy, literature, art, science, and religion. 3. MANY projects for this unit can be adapted easily from the following websites: Mariners' Museum: http:llwww .mariner .org/marinerl Renaissance Art Museum: http:llwww .oir .ucf .edu/wmlpaintl glolrenaissance Virtual Renaissance: http:llwww .district 125.kI2.il. us/Renaissance/GeneralFiles/Introduction. html
POSSIBLE FILMS: Anne of a Thousand Days A Man For All Seasons The Sea Hawks 1492: Conquest of Paradise UNIT III: AGE OF MONARCHS (1500-1750): 4 WEEKS Individual monarchs built strong nation-states bent on national expansion which led Europe into an age of territorial disputes and wars.
OBJECTIVES: 1. Trace the growing power of monarchs and the rise of strong nation-states in Europe from the 1500s to the 1700s.
KEY TERMS: absolutism
divine right
armada inflation
Philip II
balance of power Tudor Dynasty
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV (the Sun King) Versailles
balance of trade
import/export The Thirty Years' War
Hapsburgs Hohenzollems Frederick I & II
boyars
serf Ivan IV
Peter I
Catherine II St. Petersburg
monarchy POSSIBLE SPECIAL PROJECTS: 1. Students create large outline maps of Europe indicating the territorial possessions of the individual nations 2. Students write essays comparing/contrasting the characteristics of any two European monarchs (ex: Louis XIV and Peter I)
UNIT IV: AGE OF REVOLUTION (1500-1830) 6 WEEKS The discoveries and writings of the Age of Revolution ignited a fuse of knowledge that exploded in a scientific revolution throughout Europe and political revolutions in England, the United States, and France. OBJECTIVES: 1. Explain how the Scientific Revolution changed the way people looked at their world and how the Enlightenment advanced new social and political ideas. 2. Compare the results of the English and American Revolutions. 3. Understand the different phases of the French Revolution and trace the ways in which that revolution and the Napoleonic period transformed Europe.
TERMS: Hypothesis
ellipses
Copernicus Kepler Galileo
Bacon Descartes
Newton
Vesalius Harvey
Hooke
Boyle natural law
Hobbes
Locke philosophe
salon
Enlightenment enlightened despot
Montisquieu
Voltaire Rousseau Adam Smith
free trade laissez faire
supply/demand
market economy separation of powers
Classicism
estate tithe
bourgeoisie
Louis XVI Marie Antoinette
Versailles
the Bastille Radical
sans culottes
Estates General National Assembly Great Fear
Coup d'etat Napoleon Bonaparte
Reactionary
Political spectrum Danton
Robespierre
Marat Reign of Terror
Jacobins
Girondists dictatorship
Napoleonic Code
Duke of Wellington Waterloo
Horatio Nelson
Trafalgar Metternich
Congress of Vienna POSSIBLE SPECIAL PROJECTS: 1. Create a newspaper that chronicles the American or English Revolution. The paper should have three main sections: Causes of the Revolution; Events of the Revolution; Effects of the Revolution. 2. Produce a "television documentary" of the French Revolution. 3. MANY projects for this unit can be adapted easily from the following websites: .Life in the American Colonies: http:11 grid.let.rug.n1/ ",welling/usa/revolution.html .The Enlightenment: http:llmistra1.culture.fr/lumiere/documents/files/imaginary _exhibition.html POSSIBLE FILMS: A Tale of Two Cities Napoleon (PBS Documentary ) UNIT V: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1750-1914): 3 WEEKS Political developments and unparalleled economic growth enabled western nations to dominate many areas of the world.
OBJECTIVES: 1. Understand the technological innovations and new economic developments of the Industrial Revolution. 2. Trace new political, economic, and scientific ideas and the growth of popular culture.
KEY TERMS Industrial Revolution
industrialization
Charles Dickens capital
entrepreneur
factory system enclosure movement
James Hargreaves
Richard Arkwright Edmund Cartwright
Eli Whitney
James Watt Henry Bessemer George Stevenson
Richard Trevithick Samuel Morse
Marconi
Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison
Wright Brothers interchangeable parts division of labor
labor union
collective bargain utilitarianism
socialism
communism proletariat
David Ricardo
John Stuart Mill Robert Owen
Karl Marx Freidrich Engels
POSSIBLE SPECIAL PROJECTS: 1. Groups of students should write/present a play that shows the changes that occurred in the lives of individuals as a result of industrialization.
UNIT VI: REACTION, NATIONALISM, AND IMPERIALISM (1815- 1914): 3 WEEKS 1. Describe the revolutionary and reform that reshaped the politics of Europe and the Americas in the l800s. 2. Explain how the nationalists unified Italy and Germany and challenged the autocracy in Russia and Austria-Hungary . 3. Discuss the effects of European and United States imperialism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
TERMS: nationalism
nation-state
diplomacy Giuseppe Mazzani
Victor Emmanuel II
Cavour Garibaldi
realpolitik
kaiser chancellor
Bismarck
Franco-Prussian War Seven Weeks' War militarism
autocracy czar
Russification
pogrom soviet
duma
menesheviks bolsheviks
Lenin
Francis Joseph jingoism
imperialism
colony protectorate sphere of influence
Cecil Rhodes Stanley & Livingstone
Kipling
Afrikaners
Boers
African National Congress sepoy Raj
Sun Yat-Sen
opium war open door policy
Boxer Rebellion
Matthew Perry Mutsuhhito
Meiji
Russo-Japanese War westernization UNIT VII: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF COMMUNISM (1917-PRESENT): 4 WEEKS The emergence of communism was a major event in the 2Oth century .This unit examines the effects of communism on the people which lived under the system as well as on the those who opposed it. OBJECTIVES: 1. Examine the factors that led to rise/spread of communism. 2. Explain how the policies of communist leaders affected the citizenry . 3. Analyze the factors that led to the collapse of communism.
TERMS: czar
Czar
Nicholas II Lenin St. Petersburg
Bolshevik Revolution
Trotsky Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
Provisional Government Stalin
Five Year Plans
Collectivization Purge
Khruschev Cold War Satellites (Political )
De-Stalinization
Brezhnev Communist bloc
Gorbachev
Glasnost Perestoika
Yeltsin
1991 Coup Fall of the Berlin Wall
Privatization
Communism in China Opium War
Spheres of Influence
Unequal Treaties The Boxer Rebellion
Sun Yat-sen
The Guomindang Revolution of 1911 Yuan Shigai Warlords
Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong
The Long March
Chinese Civil War Mao's Rule
The Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution Red Guards
President Nixon
Tiananmen Square Special Economic Zones
Tibet
China and the US Hong Kong
Taiwan Jiang Zemin
Deng Xiaoping
Gang of Four Four Modernizations
China's economic transition
ChinaToday in the 1980s-present UNIT VIII: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: 2 WEEKS The Arab-Israeli conflict has raged for the better part of the 2Oth century with no end in sight. This unit will focus on the roots of the conflict as well as the its regional and global implications. OBJECTIVES : 1. Trace the factors that have fueled the conflict. 2. Investigate the impact of the conflict on the Middle East and the world.
TERMS: Zionism
Palestine
Balfour Declaration British Mandate
First Arab Israeli War
David Ben Gurion Nasser
Suez Crisis
Six Day War Yom Kippur War
Camp David Accords
Gaza Strip Golan Heights
West Bank Jerusalem Intifada
Yitzhak Rabin
Yasir Arafat OPEC UNIT IX: CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: 2 WEEKS Following World War II, Africans began to free themselves from the colonial bonds that had hampered the continent since the 1800s. However, despite independence, Africa continued to struggle against the legacy of problems left by imperialism, OBJECTIVES: 1. Examine the factors that led to Mrican in independence in the mid 2Oth century , 2. Identify the problems that Mrica has faced since gaining independence.
TERMS: Kwame Nkrumah
Third World
Jemo Kenyatta Industrialized nation
developing nation less developed nation subsistence farming
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela F.W. deKlerk
Rwanda
Somalia Pan Africanism desertification
literacy rate ANC
Desmond Tutu UNIT X: GLOBAL ISSUES: 2 WEEKS Despite the promise of the 21st century , the world still finds itself threatened by a multitude of problems. 1. Examine the problems facing the world today. 2. Analyze factors that are leading toward globalization. TERMS: Terrorism
globalization
world debt population growth
AIDS
global warming