Welcome to 9th Grade World History
Open House
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Early Civilizations
Describing the development of early historic people,
their agriculture, and settlements.
 Hammurabi
 5 characteristics of civilization
 Early River Civilizations
 Mesopotamia
 China
 Egypt
 India
Ancient Greece
Analyze Greek contributions and their impact on later
civilizations.
 Government and citizenship
 democracy
 city states
 war
 Scientific and cultural advancements.
Socrates
 Plato
 Aristotle
 literature
 Olympics
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Ancient Rome
• Analyze Greek contributions and their impact on later
civilizations.
 Government and citizenship
Republics
Veto
Code of Law
 Science and cultural advancements
Roads
Aqueducts
Architecture
Middle Ages
• Interactions between European and Asian
civilizations.
 Crusades
 Commerce and the Silk Road
 Causes and effect of the Plague
Renaissance
• Thoughts and theories of the Renaissance.
– Rediscovery of Greek and Roman ideas
– Humanism
– Innovations in arts and science.
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Reformation
Affect of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
impacted society.
– Inquisition
– Printing Press
– Henry VIII
– Martin Luther
– John Calvin
Exploration
• Religious, economic, social, and political interactions
that resulted from early exploration.
– God, Gold, Glory
– Role of disease and conquest
– technology
– slavery
– Individual explorers
Scientific Revolution
• Analyzing the enduring contributions of the scientific
revolution and enlightenment
The Enlightenment
• Analyze the effects of the global spread of
enlightenment ideas in Europe and Latin America
Industrial Revolution
• Impact of the Industrial Revolution
– Origins
– Urban growth
– unequal spread to other countries
– child labor
immigration
– economic theories
Imperialism
• Impacts of Imperialism on the World.
– Revolutions
– Raw Materials
– Industrialization
World War I
• Impact and Events of WWI.
– Governments
– Alliance System
– Trench Warfare
World War II
• Aspect of WWII
– Political Ideologies
– Strategies
– Holocaust
– Leaders and their contributions
– U.S. involvement
Cold War
World Today
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How the Fremont Social Studies Dept. will help your
child discover and acquire this knowledge
Reading
Writing
Project based learning
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• Expressing their opinions