First Global Era (1450-1750) -- recognize the characteristics of Renaissance thought. M -- compare and contrast Italian secular and Christian Humanism. M -- demonstrate an understanding of the contributions of Renaissance artists, writers, and thinkers to Western Civilization. M -- compare and contrast the beliefs of Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism. M -- explain the impact of religious thought on political, military, and social history. M -- evaluate the causes and effects of the Age of iscovery on European nations. M -- evaluate the effects of the Age of iscovery on Africa, Asia, and the Americas. M -- evaluate changes in world political boundaries between 1450 and 1770, such as European expansion of political and military power in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. -- summarize the social, political, economic, and cultural characteristics of the Ottoman, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Empires. -- describe the major ideas and philosophers of the Enlightenment and their historical legacy. M -- explain the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. -- evaluate the origins, impact, and legacy of the slave trade on history. M -- identify the major events and personalities of the Elizabethan Era. M -- examine the growth of Christianity in different parts of the world from 1450 to 1750. -- examine the character of powerful monarchies during the16th-18th centuries. -- examine the impact of expanding capitalistic enterprise and commercialization on state, class, and/or race relations. -- compare and contrast the impact of the 7 Years' war on Britain and France and their colonies. M -- discuss the pivotal events and turning points in each century. M Revised 8/1/03 1
Era of Revolutions (1750-1914) -- explain how various factors, such as industrialization, migration, diets, scientific achievements, and medical accomplishments, created significant changes in world population and urbanization between 1750 and 1914. -- discuss the events leading to the American Revolution and its effect. M -- examine various factors, such as the Seven Years War, Enlightenment thought, and/or rising internal economic crisis, that impacted political conditions in Old Regime France. -- evaluate the effect of the Haitian Revolution on race relations and slavery in the French empire. -- examine the political and ideological objectives of the Latin American independence movement between 1808 and 1830. -- trace the causes and course of the Industrial Revolution. M -- evaluate the social, political, and economic consequences of the Industrial Revolution. M -- examine the causes and effects of the 19th century revolutions in Europe. M -- evaluate how European nationalism created opposition and strain in the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. -- compare and contrast industrialization and its impact on society in countries such as Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, and/or the United States. -- identify the role of Father Miguel Hidalgo in the Mexican Revolution. -- understand the importance of the Crimean War's outcome to England. -- examine internal and external causes of the Meiji Restoration. European Colonialism -- evaluate the role of British colonialism in India. M -- evaluate the role of European colonialism in East Asia. M Revised 8/1/03 2
-- evaluate the effects of European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. M -- evaluate the effects of European imperialism in Africa. M 20th Century -- compare the industrial power of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States in the early 20th century. -- examine the causes of World War I. -- examine how propaganda was used to create civilian support of "total war". -- examine accomplishments of the women's movement in the context of World War I and its aftermath. -- evaluate the social, political, cultural, and economic results of WWI. M -- identify causes, personalities and results of the Russian Revolution. M -- explain how the Bolsheviks made adjustments to Marxism to suit specific conditions in Russia. -- describe Lenin's political ideology. -- examine the causes of the Great epression. M -- examine the social, political, and economic consequences of the Great epression. M -- examine the causes of WWII. M -- explain significant turning points of World War II. -- evaluate the consequences of World War II as a "total war". -- compare and contrast both sides of the debate surrounding the use of the atomic bomb during World War II. -- evaluate the history of anti-semitism and its role in the Holocaust. M -- understand the development of fascism as a form of government and type of political thinking. -- explain Benito Mussolini's rise to power. Revised 8/1/03 3
-- explain Francisco Franco's rise to power. -- understand the development of Nazism as a form of government and type of political thinking. -- explain Adolf Hitler's rise to power. -- understand the ideas of Nazism presented in Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf. -- trace the origins, events, and results of the Cold War. M -- compare and contrast NATO and the Warsaw Pact. M -- comphrehend how certain locations during the Cold War became hot spots. M -- describe the ease of Cold War tensions in the 1970s. -- understand the development of Communism as a form of government and type of political thinking. -- describe the Communist Party's rise to power in China between 1936 and 1949. -- identify reasons for the fall of Communism. -- summarize the collapse of various communist governments in the 1980s and 1990s. -- describe how international circumstances led to the founding of Israel after World War II. -- examine reasons for ongoing conflict between Israel and other neighboring states after World War II. -- examine reasons for the partition of India into two nations. -- examine the conditions of apartheid in Africa after World War II. -- examine how women's movements and social conditions have impacted the lives of women in various regions of the world. -- compare and contrast women's social equality in different countries. -- discuss the origins and doctrines of Islam and apply this knowledge to recent Middle Eastern history. M Revised 8/1/03 4
-- discuss recent historical events, their relationships to the past, and their relevance to contemporary society. M Revised 8/1/03 5