Skills Based Learning Targets (year long)

• Analyze a variety of primary and secondary sources and use the message, context, intended audience, and other factors to reach a full understanding of the source (Reading Analysis)
• Write and speak coherently and clearly in a variety of formats and settings and clearly present information both visually & verbally (Communication)
• Take information and ideas from a wide variety of sources to reach a broader understanding and develop arguments (Synthesis)
• Develop an argument and support and defend arguments using historical evidence (Argumentation)
• Analyze historical events through the lenses of cause & effect, compare and contrast, and contextualization (Historical Analysis)

Content Based Learning Targets (by unit)

• Identify the causes and effects of human evolution and migration around the world and can describe the lifestyle and social organization of human societies in our earliest stages (1.1)
• Identify the earliest locations of agriculture around the world and understand the process of domestication that led to farming (1.2)
• Compare and contrast the major patterns of early civilizations culturally, socially, politically, and economically while also identify key unique characteristics among early civilizations (2.1)
• Understand the forces that shape and mold culture, including the impact of the environment and the concepts of cultural diffusion and syncretism and the usual causes and effects of each (2.2
• Identify the usual causes and effects of human migration and specifically the effects of the Indo-European and Bantu migrations in this era (2.3)
• Understand the origin and evolution of writing systems and their impact on human societies (2.4)
• Outline and understand the broad history of the classical era, including being able to identify the major empires and their overall impact on history (3.1)
• Identify and understand the political challenges of classical era empires and the political organizational strategies they developed to govern their vast empires (3.2)
• Identify common features of daily life in the classical era and compare and contrast regional differences (3.3)
• Understand the causes and effects of long-distance trade and interaction in the classical era and can identify the main trade routes (3.4)
• Understand the origins and beliefs of Hinduism and the Caste System and how they are connected to one another (4.1)
• Understand the origins and beliefs of Buddhism (4.2)
• Understand the doctrines and beliefs of the major Chinese philosophies, including Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism (4.3)
• Understand the concept of Western Civilization and can identify the ways in which Ancient Greece and Rome contributed to its formation (4.4)
• Understand the historical origins and the basic beliefs of Christianity, including the evolution of the faith in its early history (4.5)
• Describe the historical origins and basic beliefs of Islam and how it shapes the lives of its followers (4.6)
• Understand the causes and nature of the expansion of Islam and the creation of the Islamic Empire and the history of the various political states of the Islamic world (5.1)
• Understand the economic and cultural effects of the creation of the Islamic Empire, including the syncretic process that led to the creation of Islamic culture and the creation of the Islamic slave trade (5.2)
• Understand the key features of early African kingdoms and the impact of the Trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, and Islamic Slave Trade on their development (5.3)
• Understand the historical context of Medieval Europe and the formation of Medieval European society and the Byzantine Empire after the fall of the Roman Empire, including the process that led to the consolidation of Christianity in Europe (6.1)
• Understand how the combination of Feudalism and the Roman Catholic Church shaped the cultural, social, economic, and political structure of Medieval European society (6.2)
• Understand the causes and effects of the economic, political, and social changes in Europe between 1200-1450 (6.3)
• Understand the causes and effects of the political, economic, social, and cultural changes in India and the impact India had on the development of Southeast Asia from 1200-1450 (7.1)
• Identify the foundations of the Chinese government model and give a timeline of the major events and political changes in China from 800- 1450 CE (8.1)
• Understand the causes and effects of Chinese economic, cultural, and demographic growth between 1200-1450 (8.2)
• Identify the causes and effects of the arrival of Buddhism into China and the evolution of Buddhism in China (8.3)
• Identify ways in which cultural diffusion from China led to the development of Japanese civilization and understand major features of Medieval Japanese society (8.4)
• Understand the lifestyle of pastoral nomads and identify the main ways they have interacted with civilizations and impacted history (9.1)
• Identify the major nomadic groups and the nomadic empires formed between 1200-1450 and the causes & effects of the creation of those empires (9.2)
• Create and defend an argument about the historical impact of the Mongol conquests in either an opinion paper or as part of classroom debate (9.3)
• Compare and contrast the political, economic, and social systems of the major American civilizations (Maya, Mexica, Inca) to one another and to civilizations in Eurasia (11.1)
• Understand the common features of life in pre-Columbian North America and Oceania, including the Austronesian expansion (11.2)
• Outline the physical processes of trade and travel in the post-classical era and the areas involved in the major trade systems of the era (10.1)
• Understand the causes and effects of increased long-distance trade and travel in the post-classical era (10.2)
• Compare and contrast the methods that major religions used to become widespread, the main areas of influence for each religion, and the process of religious syncretism (10.3)
• Understand the motivations, causes, and effects of European exploration and expansion, including their conquest of the Americas (12.1)
• Compare and contrast the economic, political, and social features of the various European colonial systems in the Americas during the colonial era (12.2)
• Understand the historical factors that led to the Atlantic Slave Trade, how the trade system worked, and the effects of the slave trade on African and American societies, including its connection to modern racism (12.3)
• Understand the early system of global trade and be able to define the Columbian Exchange that resulted from it and the major positive and negative effects of both (12.4)
• Identify the major historical figures and ideas, as well as the causes and effects of the major cultural shifts of the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation (13.1)
• Understand the major economic and political changes in Europe during the early modern era and their impact on European society (13.2)
• Analyze primary & secondary sources to create a summary of the new ideas of the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution and create a historical argument that analyzes their impact on society (13.3)
• Understand the political, economic, cultural, and social continuities and changes in China between 1450-1750 (14.1)
• Understand the similar origins, methods for military expansion, and the political organization of land based empires of the Muslim world from 1450-1750 (14.2)
• Analyze the causes of decline in the Chinese and Muslim world (14.3)
• Compare and contrast the methods of political organization and expansion around the world from 1450 to 1750 (15.1)
• Compare and contrast the continuities and changes to systems of labor used around the world from 1450 to 1750 (15.2)
• Compare and contrast the continuities and changes to systems of class based, racial, ethnic, and gender constructs around the world from 1450 to 1750 (15.3)
• Compare and contrast the religious and cultural conflicts that emerged between 1450 to 1750, with a focus on cultural syncretism in the Americas and religious conflicts in Europe and the Middle East (15.4)
• Define the concept of political revolution and outline the typical factors that lead to revolutions and what results from them and understand the main causes and effects of the ‘Age of Revolutions’ (16.1)
• Understand the causes and effects of the French Revolution, North American, and Latin American Revolutions (16.2)
• Define the new political ideologies in Europe during the ‘Age of Revolution’ and understand the historical factors that helped create and spread the idea of nationalism and the nation-state (16.3)
• Compare and contrast the post-revolutionary paths of Latin and North America politically, socially, and economically and understand the historical causes of those differences (16.4)
• Understand the origins and causes of the Industrial Revolution, including the key technological breakthroughs (17.1)
• Understand the social, economic, demographic, and environmental impact of the Industrial Revolution (17.2)
• Compare and contrast the economic ideologies of capitalism and socialism and the causes and effects of the calls for reforms to industrial societies (17.3)
• Compare and contrast the post-independence paths from 1800-1900 for North and Latin America politically, economically, and socially (18.1)
• Identify the motivations and causes of Western Imperialism and outline the areas of the world that were colonized (19.1)
• Understand the main political and economic organizational techniques of European colonial states (19.2)
• Compare and contrast the political, economic, and social challenges facing the Ottoman and Russian empires, Japan, and China between 1450-1750 and their success in implementing reforms and industrialization (20.1)
• Compare and contrast the causes, effects, and experiences of different groups of migrants for the period 1750-1900 (21.1)
• Summarize the main global developments for the era 1750-1900 (21.2)
• Identify the causes, effects, and nature of World War I, including the Russian Revolution (22.1)
• Identify the major global developments between the world wars, including the causes and effects of the global Great Depression and the rise of Totalitarian states (22.2)
• Identify the causes, effects, and nature of World War II, including the impact on civilians (22.3)
• Understand the overall causes and effects of the World Wars and their lasting impact on the world today (22.4)
• Describe the Cold War in terms of the competing nations and ideologies, the methods used by both sides to compete for global power and influence, and the factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union (23.1)
• Identify the general causes and effects of decolonization and the areas of the globe that achieved independence (23.2)
• Define the Green Revolution and understand the causes and effects of it (23.3)
• Outline the history of China since the Chinese Civil War and identify the positive changes and remaining challenges to modern China (24.1)
• Outline the historical factors leading to Middle Eastern conflict and identify and understand the major conflicts and revolutions in the region and America’s role in them (24.2)
• Outline the major patterns of development, including major positive changes and remaining challenges in modern Europe, Latin America, and Africa (24.3)
• Define globalization and outline the historical causes and effects of globalization economically, socially, and politically (25.1)
• Identify the major technologies that have led to the Digital Revolution and outline the major effects of it (25.2)
• Understand and identify the major trends of the modern world in terms of demographics, human rights and conflicts, environmental issues, and economic issues and be able to connect those trends to broader historical events and processes (25.3)

Textbook -- Traditions & Encounters- 4th Edition (Bentley, Ziegler)