STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1.  Discuss the Age of Discovery, Renaissance, and expansion and the effects of European politics, religion, and war on the New World.

 2.  Review Europe’s transitions during the Scientific Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution.

 3.  Describe the slave trade and its impact on Africa.

 4.  Describe the boundaries of the Ottoman and Persian states and describe their cultures and religions.

 5.  Explain the rise of colonialism and its impact on native peoples around the world.

 6.  Discuss the important ideas and people of the American and French revolutions, and the effect Napoleon had on Europe.

 7.  Discuss the importance of technology in production and trade, how new energy sources and improved transportation changed the face of Europe, how government regulations (or lack thereof) provided capital and cheap labor for industrialization.

 8.  Explain the tenets of Socialism, describe the Romantic Movement, the various reform movements and revolutions that occurred throughout Europe, and the growth of European nationalism and its long term effects, as well as colonial responses to imperialism.

 9.  Analyze world-wide changes between the outbreak of World War I through the Cold War, including the effects of imperialism and nationalism.

 10. Discuss the prevalence of poverty in third world nations, possible solutions to the population explosion, new trends in world politics, and global interdependence

 11. Four general goals integrate history with workplace skills:

         a. Acquire information from many sources

         b. Break complex and multiple sources of information down into parts to create clearer understanding

         c. Understand the impact of time and space on perspective

         d. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence

 12. Throughout the course, students should be introduced to course content, practice using course content, and demonstrate they can:

         a. Describe how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions covered in this course change over time

         b. Understand the events covered in the course in historical context and recognize how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality and other identities affect historical perspective

         c. Communicate orally and in writing about the subject of the course and select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems and compile information

         d. Use different resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies and archives

         e. Analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation

         f. Identify types of primary sources, the point of view and purpose of their author or creator

         g. Create substantive writing samples which employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, and document those sources correctly

         h. Construct knowledge in the discipline and synthesize historical narratives and timelines from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts and critically analyze, interpret and evaluate many different points of view to construct historical arguments.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      The Age of European Expansion and Religious Wars.

 II.     Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe:  France, England.

 III.    Europe in change:  Scientific Revolution, Agriculture, Religion and popular Culture.

 IV.     Africa:  Geography, Slave Trade.

 V.      The Middle East and India:  The Ottoman State, The Persian State, British Domination in India.

 VI.     China and Japan:  Describe the changes that occurred in China from the Ming Dynasty to the Manchu Dynasty, as well as those in Japan.

 VII.    Revolution in Western politics:  Revolutions.

 VIII.   Industrial Revolution in Europe:  New Technology.

 IX.     Ideologies and upheavals.

 X       Imperialism

 XI.     Examine the effect of European imperialism.

 XII.    Nation Building in the Western Hemisphere.

 XIII.   War and Revolution in Europe:  World War I.

 XIV.    Nationalism in Asia.

 XV.     Anxiety in the West

 XVI.    Dictatorship and the Second World War:  Explain the rise of the authoritarian states

 XVII.   Recovery and Crisis in Europe.

 XVIII.  Asia and Africa in the Contemporary World.

 XIX.    Changing Lives of Third World People

 XX      One Small Planet