(Time Period:Foundations 8000 BCE to 600 CEReview of Locating World History in the environment and time)

Environment:

Interaction of geography and climate with the development of human society

Environment:

Demography-major pop changes due to human/environment factors

Environment:

The environment as historical actor

Time:

Periodization in early human history

Time:

Nature and causes of change during this time

Time:

Changes and continuities during this time

Diverse Interpretations:

What are the issues involved in using civilization as an organizing principle in world history?

Diverse Interpretations:

What is the most common source of change: connection or diffusion v. independent invention?

What was the effect of the Neolithic Revolution on gender relations?

(Time Period:Foundations 8000 BCE to 600 CEReview of Developing Agriculture and Technology)

SOCIETIES AND THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS, INCLUDE AFRICA, THE AMERICAS AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

Agricultural Societies

Pastoral Societies

Foraging Societies

Compare societies and cultures that include cities with pastoral and nomadic societies

Emergence of agriculture and technological change

Nature of village settlements

Impact of agriculture on the environment

Introduction of key stages of metal use

(Time Period:Foundations 8000 BCE to 600 CEReview of Early Civilizations)

BASIC FEATURES OF EARLY CIVILIZATIONS IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS: CULTURE, STATE, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES

Mesopotamia

Egypt

Shang

Indus

Andean South America

Mesoamerica

COMPARE TWO OF THE ABOVE

(Time Period:Foundations 8000 BCE to 600 CEReview of Classical Civilizations )

MAJOR POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND ANALYZE THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE GROWTH OF LARGE STATE STRUCTURES

Mesoamerica

India

Mediterranean

Social and gender structures

Arts, sciences and technology

Major trading patterns within and among Classical civilizations; contacts with adjacent regions

Compare the caste system to other systems of social inequality devised by early and classical civilizations, include slavery

(Time Period:Foundations 8000 BCE to 600 CEReview of Major Belief Systems)

KNOW BASIC FEATURES OF EACH BELIEF SYSTEM & LOCATION PRIOR TO 600 CE

Hinduism

Buddhism

Daoism

Christianity

Judaism

Confucianism

Polytheism

Compare major belief systems including similarities in cementing social hierarchy ex. Hinduism contrasted with Confucianism

Role of Women in different belief systems-Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism

(Time Period:Foundations 8000 BCE to 600 CEReview of Late Classical Period 200600 CE)

COLLAPSE OF EMPIRES/STATES

Han China

Western half of Roman Empire

Gupta Empire

How and why was the collapse of empire more severe in W. Europe than it was in the E. Mediterranean or in China

MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLES

Huns

Germans

Bantu

Polynesians

INTERREGIONAL NETWORKS

Trade

Religious Diffusion

Compare the development of traditions and institutions in major civilizations-Indian, Chinese and Greek/Roman

(Time Period:Regional and Transregional Interactions 600-1450 Review of Periodization)

Nature and causes of changes in world history framework leading up to 600-1450 as a period

Changes and continuities within the era

Emergence of new empires and political systems (Umayyad, Abbasid, Byzantium, Russia, Sudanic States, Swahili Coast, Tang, Song, Ming, Delhi Sultanate, Mongol, Turkish, Aztec, Inca)

Impact of the Mongols on international contacts and on specific societies

(Time Period:Regional and Transregional Interactions 600-1450Review of The Islamic World)Rise of Islam

Role of Islam as a unifying cultural force in Eurasia and Africa

Role of Islam as an economic force in Eurasia and Africa

Islamic political structures, notably the caliphate

Arts, sciences and technology of the Islamic World

Compare European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic World

Analyze gender systems and changes, such as the effects of Islam

(Time Period:Regional and Transregional Interactions 600-1450Review of Interregional Networks and Contacts )

DEVELOPMENT AND SHIFTS IN INTERREGIONAL TRADE, TEHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE

Trans-Saharan Trade

Silk Roads

Indian Ocean Trade

Economic innovations (Tang, Song, Ming, Swahili, Americas)

Missionary Outreach of Major Religions

Contacts between major religions-Islam and Buddhism, Christianity and Islam

Impact of the Mongol Empires

(Time Period:Regional and Transregional Interactions 600-1450Review of Political Systems and Cultural Patterns-East Asia)

Chinas expansion

Chinese influence on surrounding areas and its limits (Japan, Vietnam and Korea)

Compare Japanese and European Feudalism

Compare gender systems and changes

Analyze the Chinese civil service exam system and the rise of meritocracy

(Time Period:Regional and Transregional Interactions 600-1450 Review of Political Systems and Cultural Patterns-Europe)

Restructuring of Europe institutions

Decentralization-medieval society

Division of Christendom into eastern and western Christian cultures

Revival of Cities

Compare developments in political and social institutions in both eastern and western Europe

(Time Period:Regional and Transregional Interactions 600-1450Review of Political Systems and Cultural Patterns-Americas, Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia)

AMERICAS

Apex and Decline of the Maya

Rise of the Aztec

Rise of the Inca

AFRICA

Sudanic Empires (Mali, Ghana, Songhay)

Swahili Coast

SOUTH ASIA

Delhi Sultanate

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Vietnam

(Time Period:Regional and Transregional Interactions 600-1450 Review of Demographic and Environmental changes)

IMPACT OF NOMADIC MIGRATIONS ON AFRO-EURASIA AND AMERICAS

Aztecs

Mongols

Turks

Vikings

Arabs

Consequences of Plague pandemics in the 14th century

Compare the role and function of cities in major societies

Growth and role of cities (expansion of urban commercial centers in Song China and administrative centers in Africa and the Americas

(Time Period:Regional and Transregional Interactions 600-1450 Review of Diverse Interpretations)

What are the issues involved in using cultural areas rather than states as units of analysis?

What are the sources of change: nomadic migrations versus urban growth?

Was there a world economic network in this period?

Were there common patterns in the new opportunities available to and constraints placed on elite women in this period?

To what extent was Dar al-Islam a unified cultural/political entity?

(Time Period:Global Interactions 1450-1750Review of Periodization and changes)

Periodization-why the boundaries for this era?

Changes and continuities for this era

Causes and changes within the era

Causes and changes from the last era

Changes in trade (ex Columbian exchange

Changes in technology (ex. Guns, shipbuilding, navigational technologies)

Changes in global interactions

(Time Period:Global Interactions 1450-1750Review of Major Empires, Political units and Social Systems)

KNOW MAJOR EMPIRES AND OTHER POLITICAL UNITS AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Ottoman

Aztec

China

Portugal

Spain

Russia

France

Britain

Tokugawa

Mughal

Inca

Doodle Here

Characteristics of African Kingdoms

Know one to illustrate characteristics-Kongo, Benin, Dahomey, Ashanti, Songhay, or Oyo

Gender and Empire (including the role of women in households and in politics)

(Time Period:Global Interactions 1450-1750Review of Slavery)

Slave systems

Slave trade

Plantation systems

Compare coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in the Americas

(Time Period:Global Interactions 1450-1750Review of Demographic and Environmental Changes)

European exploration

New crops

Animals

Comparative Population Trends

Diseases

(Time Period:Global Interactions 1450-1750Review of Cultural and Intellectual Developments)

Scientific Revolution

Enlightenment

Absolutism

Reformation

Changes and continuities in Confucianism (include neoconfucianism)

Major developments and exchanges in the arts

Compare global causes and impacts of cultural change (ex. African contributions to cultures in the Americas)

Creation of new religions (Vodun, Sihkism, Zen, Protestantism)

(Time Period: Global Interactions 1450-1750Review of Diverse Interpretations and Major Comparisons)

What are the debates about the timing and extent of European predominance in the world economy?

How does the world economic system of this period compare with patterns of interregional trade in the previous period?

Compare colonial administrations

Analyze the development of empire (general empire building in Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe

Analyze imperial systems: A European seaborne empire compared with a land-based Asian empire

Compare Russias interaction two of the following (Ottoman Empire, China, western Europe and eastern Europe

Compare Mesoamerican and Andean systems of economic exchange

(Time Period: Industrialization and Global Integration 1750-1914Review of :Periodization and Major Changes)

Periodization: What makes the year 1750 an important transition year for the world? Why does the era end at 1914?

What are continuities and changes from the previous period?

Causes of changes within the era

Changes in global commerce

Changes in global communications

Changes in global technology

Changes in patterns of world trade

Industrial Revolution

Transformative effects of Ind. Rev on different societies

Different timing of industrialization in different societies

Mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments

Commonalities among industrializing societies

(Time Period: Industrialization and Global Integration 1750-1914Review of: Demographic and Environmental Changes)

Demographic changes

Environmental changes

Medicine

Migrations

End of Atlantic slave trade

New birthrate patterns

Food supply

Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial Revolution in western Europe and Japan

(Time Period: Industrialization of Global Integration 1750-1914Review of: Changes in Social and Gender Structures)

Changes in social structures

Changes in gender structures

Industrialization effect on social/gender structures

Emancipation of serfs/slaves

Tension between work patterns and ideas about gender

Commercial and demographic developments

New forms of labor systems

Compare the roles and conditions of elite women in Latin America with those in western Europe before 1850

(Time Period: Industrialization and Global Integration 1750-1914Review of: Political Revolutions, Independence Movements and New Political Ideas and Diverse Interpretations)

US Independence Movements

Latin American Independence Movements

French Revolution

Haitian Revolution

Chinese Revolution

Mexican Revolution

Compare the Haitian and French Revolutions

Rise of nationalism, nation-states, and movements of political reform

RISE OF DEMOCRACY AND ITS LIMITATIONS

Reform

Women

Racism

COMPARE NATIONALISM IN THE FOLLOWING PAIRS:

China and Japan

Egypt and Italy

Pan Africanism and the Indian Congress Movement

DIVERSE INTERPRETATIONS

What are the debates over causes and effect of serf and slave emancipation in this period, and how do these debates fit into broader comparisons of labor systems?

What are the debates over the causes of European/British technological innovation versus development in Asia/China?

What are the debates over the nature of womens roles in this era and how do these debates apply to industrialized areas and how do they apply to colonial societies?

(Time Period: Industrialization and Global Integration 1750-1914Review of Rise of Western Dominance)RISE OF WESTERN DOMINANCE

Economic

Military

Political

Social

Cultural and Artistic

Patterns of expansion

Imperialism

Colonialism

Neocolonialism

DIFFERENT CULTURAL AND POLITICAL REACTIONS TO THE RISE OF WESTERN DOMINANCE

Reform

Dissent

Resistance

Rebellion

Racism

Nationalism

Impact of changing European ideologies on colonial administrations

COMPARE REACTION TO FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN:

Japan

Ottoman Empire

China

India

Southeast Asia

EXPLAIN FORMS OF WESTERN INTERVENTION IN:

Latin America

Africa

Southeast Asia

(Time Period: Industrialization and Global Integration 1750-1914Review of: Patterns of Artistic and Cultural Interactions)

Patterns of cultural and artistic interactions among societies in different parts of the world

African influences on European art

Asian influences on European art

Cultural policies of Meiji Japan

(Time Period:Global Fragmentations and Realignments 1914-PresentReview of:Periodization and War and Peace in a Global Context)

PERIODIZATION

Continuties and breaks

Causes of changes from the previous period

Causes of changes within this period

WAR AND PEACE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

WWI

WWII

Colonial Soldiers in WWI

Holocaust

Cold War

Nuclear Weaponry

Compare the effects of the World Wars on areas outside of Europe

Compare major forms of twentieth century warfare

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE GLOBAL FRAMEWORK

Globalization of Diplomacy

Globalization of Conflict

Global Balance of Power

Reduction of European Influence

League of Nations

United Nations

Non-Aligned Nations

\ (Time Period:Global Fragmentations and Realignments 1914-PresentReview of: New Patterns of Nationalism )

NEW PATTERNS OF NATIONALISM

Facism

Decolonization

Racism

Genocide

Breakup of the Soviet Union

Analyze nationalist ideologies and movements in contrasting European and Colonial environments

Compare patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and India

(Time Period:Global Fragmentations and Realignments 1914-PresentReview of:Effects of Major Global Economic Developments)

EFFECTS OF MAJOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS

Great Depression in Latin America

Technology

Pacific Rim

Multinational Corporations

Asses different proposals (or models) for economic growth in the developing world and the social and political consequences

Compare legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development in two of the three areas (Africa, Asia and Latin America)

(Time Period: Global Fragmentations and Realignments 1914-PresentReview of: New Forces of Revolution and Innovation and Social Reform and Social Revolution)

New Forces of Revolution

Other Sources of political innovations

Pick two revolutions (Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Iranian) and compare their effects of the roles of women

Compare the different types of independence struggles

SOCIAL REFORM AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION

Changing gender roles

Family structures

Rise of Feminism

Peasant protest

International Marxism

Religious Fundamentalism

(Time Period: Global Fragmentations and Realignments 1914-PresentReview of: Globalization of Science, Technology and Culture)

Globalization of Science

Globalization of Technology

Globalization of Culture

Developments in global cultures and regional reactions including science and consumer culture

Analyze the global effects of the Western consumer culture

Interactions between elite and popular culture and art

EXAMINE GLOBAL INTERACTIONS IN CULTURAL ARENAS

Reggae

Art

Sports

(Time Period: Global Fragmentations and Realignments 1914-PresentReview of: Demographic and Environmental Changes and Diverse Interpretations)

DEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

Migrations

Changes in birthrates and deathrates

New forms of urbanization

Deforestation

Green/Environmental Movements

Rural to Urban Shifts

DIVERSE INTERPRETATIONS

Is cultural convergence or diversity the best model for understanding increased intercultural contact in the modern world?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using units of analysis for the modern world, such as the nation, the world, the West, and the developing world?