1. WORLD HISTORY
CURRICULUM
Course Description
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Name:World
History HS
Term: 1,2,3
Starting Period:
Week1
No Of Weeks: 33
Grade Level: 10
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WORLD HISTORTY CURRICULUM MAPPING
Course Description2018-19
Unit 8 Chapter 18 Sections
T1: Renewal In Europe The Early Middle Ages S1: Geography Of Europe
S2: Europe After the Fall of Rome
S3: Feudalism and Manor Life
S4: Feudal Societies
Unit 8 Chapter 19 Sections
T1: Renewal In Europe The Renaissance and
Reformation
S1: Italian Renaissance
S2: The Renaissance Beyond Italy
S3: The Reformation of Christianity
Unit 9 Chapter 20 Sections
T2: The Early Modern
World
Science and Exploration S1: The Scientific Revolution
S2: Great Voyages and Discovery
S3: The New Systems of Trade
Unit 9 Chapter 21 Sections
T2: The Early Modern
World
The Enlightenment and
Revolution
S1: Idea Of Enlightenment
S2: New Views On Government
S3: The Age of Revolution
Unit 10 Chapter 22 Sections
T3: The Modern World Revolutions and Nations S1: The Spread Of Revolutionary Ideas
S2: The Industrial Revolutionary
S3: Nationalism and Colonial Empire
Unit 10 Chapter 23 Sections
T3: The Modern World Global Challenges S1: World War 1
S2: World War 2
S3: Towards The Present Day
S4: Democracy
S5: Women’s Rights After WW1
S6: Global Warming
S6: Revolution In Technology
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SNO WEEKS Contents/ Main Ideas
1. Week1 Introduction towards the Physical Features of Europe
2. Week2 How Geography Shapes Life In Europe
3. Week3 How Christianity Spread to Northern Europe Through Missionaries &
Monks
How Franks led by Charlemagne, Created Huge Christian Empire
4. Week4 How Invaders Threatened much of Europe 700s and 800s
5. Week5 How Under Feudalism Nights and Nobles Governed and dealt with Each
other
6. Week6 How Feudalism spread through much of Europe?
How did the Manor system dominate Europe’s Economy?
How did towns and trade grow and helped end the Feudal systems?
7. Week7 How did feudal societies share common elements in Europe and Japan?
How Europe and Japan differ in their cultural elements such as religion
and art?
8. Week8 How Trade increased in Asia and Brought wealth to Italian Trade cities
leading to the Renaissance.
How did Italian writers and artist contribute great work during the
Renaissance
9. Week9 How during the Renaissance, advances in science and education were
made?
10. Week10 How the Renaissance ideas spread across Europe through the development
of paper, printing, and new universities?
11. Week11 How Reformers called for change in the Catholic Church, but some broke
away to from new churches.
12. Week12 How the Catholic Reformation was an attempt to reform the church from
within?
13. Week13 How the political impact of the Reformation included religious wars and
social change?
14. Week14 Revision
15. Week15 Term Break
16. Week16 Term Break
17. Week17 Term Break
18. Week18 The Scientific Revolution marked the birth of modern science.
Discoveries and inventions helped scientists study the natural world.
19. Week19 The Scientific Revolution had broad effects on society, changing ideas
about the physical world, human behavior.
20. Week20 Europeans had a desire and opportunity to explore in the 1400s and 1500s.
Portuguese and Spanish explorers discovered new trade routes, lands, and
people.
21. Week21 The English and French claimed land in North America.
Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas exchanged plants animals, and
ideas.
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22. Week22 In the 1600s and 1700s, new trade patterns developed, and power shifted
in Europe.
Market economies changed business in Europe.
23. Week23 The Enlightenment was also called the Age of Reason.
The Enlightenment’s roots can be traced back to earlier ideas.
24. Week24 New ideas came mainly from French and British thinkers.
The enlightenment influenced some monarchies.
Enlightenment thinkers helped the growth of democratic ideas.
25. Week25 In America, the enlightenment inspired a struggle for independence.
Revolution and reform changed the government of England.
Enlightenment ideas led to democracy in America.
26. Week26 The French Revolution caused major changes in France’s government.
Revision
27. Week27 Final Exam
28. Week28 Final Exam
29. Week29 Spring Break for students
30. Week30 Spring Break for Teachers
31. Week31 During the Napoleonic Era, Napoleon conquered vast territories in Europe
and spread reforms across the continent.
At the Congress Vienna, European leaders tried to restore the old
monarchies and ensure peace.
32. Week 32 Inspired by revolutionary ideals in Europe, Latin American colonies began
to win their independence.
During the industrial Revolution, new machines and methods dramatically
changed the way that goods were produced.
33. Week 33 Industrialization and the factory system brought a new of life to Europe
and America.
Nationalism sparked independence movements in Europe and the
unification of Italy and Germany.
34. Week 34 Colonial empires grew in the late 1800s as industrialism led to a new wave
of imperialism.
The oneset of World War I can be traced to nationalism, imperialism, and
the buildup of military forces in Europe.
35. Week 35 The Allies’ victory over the Central Powers came soon after the United
States entered the war.
The Treaty of Versailles changed the map of Europe and created
resentment.
36. Week 36 The Russian Revolution resulted in the world’s first Communist.
An other global conflict World War II, pitted Powers the Allies against the
Axis Powers from 1939 to 1945.
37. Week37 The results of World War II included a staggering loss of life and anew
power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
38. Week 38 How Colonialism ended after World War II as countries in Asia, the
Middle East, and Africa gained independence.
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The Cold War ended with democracy on the Rise and communism in
retreat.
39. Week39 Global interdependence creates new opportunities and challenges for all of
us today.
40. Week 40 Revision
41. Week 41 Final Exams
Benchmarks and Learning Targets
Standard HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.6.1: Study the geography of the Europe and the Eurasian
land mass, including its location, topography, waterways, vegetation, and climate and their
relationship to ways of life in Medieval Europe.
Benchmark: 7.6.1.1 Understand the physical features of Europe and geography shapes life.
Benchmark: 7.6.1.2 Understand the life of Southern and Northern European people.
Standards HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.6.2 Describe the spread of Christianity north of the Alps
and the roles played by the early church and by monasteries in its diffusion after the fall of the
western half of the Roman Empire
Benchmark: 7.6.2.1 Understand the Christianity Spread to Northern Europe Through
Missionaries & Monks.
Benchmark: 7.6.2.2 Understand the Franks led by Charlemagne, Created Huge Christian
Empire
Benchmark: 7.6.2.3 Understand the Invaders Threatened much of Europe 700s and 800s
Standard HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.6.3: Understand the development of feudalism, its role in
the medieval European economy, the way in which it was influenced by physical geography
(the role of the manor and the growth of towns), and how feudal relationships provided the
foundation of political order.
Benchmark: 7.6.3.1: Understand the Feudalism Nights and Nobles Governed and dealt with
Each other.
Benchmark: 7.6.3.2: Understand the Feudalism spread through much of Europe.
Benchmark: 7.6.3.3: Understand the Manor system dominate Europe’s Economy.
Benchmark: 7.6.3.4: Understand the towns and trade grow and helped end the Feudal
systems.
Benchmark: 7.6.3.5: Understand the feudal societies share common elements in Europe and
Japan.
Benchmark: 7.6.3.6: Understand the Europe and Japan differ in their cultural elements such
as religion and art.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.6.7 Map the spread of the bubonic plague from Central Asia to China,
the Middle East, and Europe and describe its impact on global population.
Benchmark: 7.6.7.1: Understand the expansion of the Plague.
Benchmark: 7.6.7.2: Understand the garbage and dirty conditions in the town provide food
and a home for the rats, allowing the disease to spread even more.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.8.1 Describe the way in which the revival of classical learning and
the arts fostered a new interest in humanism (i.e., a balance between intellect and religious
faith).
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Benchmark: 7.8.1.1: Understand the Trade increased in Asia and Brought wealth to Italian
Trade cities leading to the Renaissance.
Benchmark: 7.8.1.2: Understand the Italian writers and artists contributed great works during
the Renaissance.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.8.2 Explain the importance of Florence in the initial stages of the
Renaissance and the growth of independent trading cities (e.g., Venice), with emphasis on the
cities’ importance in the spread of Renaissance ideas.
Benchmark 7.8.2.1: Understand the a market in Florence Buzzes with activity in this sense
showing what Florence may have looked like in the 1400s.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.8.3 Understand the effects of the reopening of the ancient “Silk
Road” between Europe and China, including Marco Polo’s travels and the location of his
routes.
Benchmark 7.8.3.1: Understand the Renaissance advances sciences and education were made.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.8.4: Describe the growth and effects of new ways of disseminating
information (e.g., the ability to manufacture paper, translation of the Bible into the vernacular,
printing).
Benchmark 7.8.4.1: Understand the Renaissance ideas spread across Europe through the
development of paper, printing, and new universities.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.8.5: Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science,
mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and
astronomy (e.g., by Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni,
Johann Gutenberg, William Shakespeare).
Benchmark 7.8.5.1: Understand the Italian writers and artist contributed great works during
the Renaissance.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.9.1 List the causes for the internal turmoil in and weakening of the
Catholic church (e.g.,tax policies, selling of indulgences).
Benchmark: 7.9.1.1: Understand the different methodology used to spread the ideas and
humanism in northern Europe.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.9.2 Describe the theological, political, and economic ideas of the
major figures during the Reformation (e.g., Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Calvin,
William Tyndale).
Benchmark: 7.9.2.1: Understand the secular actions of church criticism on corrupt clergy.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.9.3. Explain Protestants’ new practices of church self-government
and the influence of those practices on the development of democratic practices and ideas of
federalism.
Benchmark: 7.9.3.1: Understand that reformers called for change in the Catholic Church, but
some broke away to form new churches.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.9.4. Identify and locate the European regions that remained Catholic
and those that became Protestant and explain how the division affected the distribution of
religions in the New World.
Benchmark: 7.9.4.1: Understand the unpopular church activities and martin Luther’s
message towards the division of churches.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.9.5. Analyze how the Counter-Reformation revitalized the Catholic
church and the forces that fostered the movement (e.g., St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits,
the Council of Trent).
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Benchmark: 7.9.5.1: Understand the Catholic Culture in Spain, Catholic Reforms.
Benchmark: 7.9.5.2: Understand about the meeting of church leaders in Trent, Italy.
Benchmark: 7.9.5.3: Understand the role of missionaries in teaching of Christianity around
the world.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.9.6. Understand the institution and impact of missionaries on
Christianity and the diffusion of Christianity from Europe to other parts of the world in the
medieval and early modern periods; locate missions on a world map.
Benchmark: 7.9.6.1: Understand the role of missionaries throughout the world.
Benchmark: 7.9.6.2: Understand the results of catholic teachings spread around the world.
Benchmark: 7.9.6.3: Understand the impacts of catholic teachings and consequences of the
religious war and Treaties.
Benchmark: 7.9.6.4: Understand the political and social changes took place after the
independence of Germany and Holy Roman Empire.
TERM2
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.10.1 Discuss the roots of the Scientific Revolution (e.g., Greek
rationalism; Christian, and Muslim science; Renaissance humanism; new knowledge from
global exploration).
Benchmark: 7.10.1.1: Understand the scientific ideas expressed in ancient times.
Benchmark: 7.10.1.2: Understand the discoveries and invention during the Renaissance
scholars eagerly studied the works of Greek rationalists.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.10.2: Understand the significance of the new scientific theories (e.g.,
those of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton) and the significance of new inventions (e.g.,
the telescope, microscope, thermometer, barometer).
Benchmark: 7.10.2.1: Understand the advances in Astronomy and Ptolemy’s theory that the
sun and planets orbited or circled around the earth.
Benchmark: 7.10.2.1: Understand the contradiction of Copernicus theory with Ptolemy that
planets moved around the sun in circular orbits.
Benchmark: 7.10.2.2: Understand the theory about the orbits map and position of stars.
Benchmark: 7.10.2.3: Understand the theory of the Galileo Galilei as the first person to study
the sky and his views about moon.
Benchmark: 7.10.2.4: Understand the theory of gravity and the movements of the objects in
space.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.10.3 Understand the scientific method advanced by Bacon and
Descartes, the influence of new scientific rationalism on the growth of democratic ideas, and
the coexistence of science with traditional religious beliefs.
Benchmark: 7.10.3.1: Understand the systematic fashion and scientific method and role of
the Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.11.1 Know the great voyages of discovery, the locations of the routes,
and the influence of cartography in the development of a new European worldview.
Benchmark: 7.11.1.1: Understand the new journeys of different explorers.
Benchmark: 7.11.1.2: Understand the Christopher Columbus’s sail and reason.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.11.1.2 Discuss the exchanges of plants, animals, technology, culture,
and ideas among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries and the major economic and social effects on each continent.
Benchmark: 7.11.1.2.1: Understand the Columbian exchange and triangular trade.
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Benchmark: 7.11.1.2.2: Understand the reasons of exploration and European worldview.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.11.5.1 Examine the origins of modern capitalism; the influence of
mercantilism and cottage industry; the elements and importance of a market economy in
seventeenth-century Europe; the changing international trading and marketing patterns,
including their locations on a world map; and the influence of explorers and map makers.
Benchmark: 7.11.5.1.1: Understand the new systems of trade, and economic systems like
mercantilism, capitalism and market economy.
HSS.7. WHG9WHG. 7.11.6.1 Explain how the main ideas of the Enlightenment can be
traced back to such movements as the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific
Revolution and to the Greeks, Romans, and Christianity.
Benchmark: 7.11.6.1.1 Understand the age of reason and its main goals.
Benchmark: 7.11.6.1.2 Understand the ideas of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Benchmark: 7.11.6.1.3 Understand the history of Christianity in Europe provides other clues
about ideas that emerged in the enlightenment.
Benchmark: 7.11.6.1.4 Understand the reactions to the Christian Church in Europe also
influenced the ideas of the enlightenment.
Benchmark: 7.11.6.1.5 Understand the Scientific Revolution also influenced enlightenment
thinkers.
Benchmark: 7.11.6.1.6 Understand the innovative ideas of the French Philosophers and
British writers.
TERM3
HSS.8. WHG9WHG. 8.2 Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S.
Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.
Benchmark:8.2.1 Understand the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and
compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government
Benchmark: 8.2.2 Understand the significance of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of
Rights, and the May flower Compact.
Benchmark: 8.2.3 Analyze the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution and the success
of each in implementing the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
Benchmark: 8.2.4 Evaluate the major debates that occurred during the development of the
Constitution and their ultimate resolutions in such areas as shared power among institutions, di
vided state-federal power, slavery, the rights of individuals and states (later addressed by the
addition of the Bill of Rights), and the status of American Indian nations under
the commerce clause.
Benchmark: 8.2.5 Understand the significance of Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom
as a forerunner of the First Amendment and the origins, purpose, and differing views of the
founding fathers on the issue of the separation of church and state.
Benchmark: 8.2.6 Enumerate the powers of government set forth in the Constitution and the
fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights.
HSS.8. WHG9WHG. 8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and
the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial
Revolution.
Benchmark: 8.12.1 Understand the Industrial Revolution, new machines and methods
dramatically changed the way that goods were produced.
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Benchmark: 8.12.2 Understand the Industrialization and the factory system brought a new
way of life to Europe and America.
HSS.10. WHG9WHG. 10.3 Students analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution in
England, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.
Benchmark: 10.3.1 Analyze why England was the first country to industrialize.
Benchmark: 10.3.2 Trace the evolution of work and labor, including the demise of the slave
trade and the effects of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the
union movement.
HSS.10. WHG9WHG. 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.
Benchmark: 10.5.1 Understand the onset of the World War I can be traced to nationalism,
imperialism, and the buildup of military forces in Europe.
Benchmark: 10.5.2 Understand the Allies’ victory over the Central Powers came soon after
the United States entered.
Benchmark: 10.5.3 Understand the Treaty of Versailles changed the map of Europe and
created resentment.
Benchmark: 10.5.4 Understand the Russian Revolution resulted in the World’s first
Communist state.
