World History Scope & Sequence - 2015 – 2016 Year at a Glance
Term1: August 24 – October 23
Unit 1:
Neolithic Revolution, River Valley& Classical Civilizations
 The Rise of Civilization, Prehistory (Chapter 1)
 Neolithic Revolution – economics, important changes in human life, drove
And Rise of
political change
Civilization
 Characteristics of Civilization
TEKS – 1A, 2,
16B, 17, 19, 26C,  National Geographic Almanac World History (AWH) pages 16-17, 18-19,
40-43
27A, 29A
Neolithic
Revolution
The Spread of
Civilization
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TEKS – 1, 2C,
3A, 16B, 20B,
22B, 23, 26C,
27A
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The Spread of Civilization (Chapter 2),
- Mesopotamia, Egypt (polytheism, gods,
Akhenaten/monotheism),
- WS on the great Sphinx
- (Chapter 3 lesson 2)
- New Kingdom
- Egypt DBQ
Hebrews – Judaism (Chapter 2 page 33)
- math science, technology
Indus (Hindu), China (Buddhism)
- Mesoamerica (Chapter 2 p 47)
- Video:
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Americas:
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Ice Age, Migration, Beringia
Maya/Inca/Aztec - prior civilizations influenced their development,
astronomy, math, architectural engineering
Empires in America
- AWH: 76-77, 78-79, 104-107, 138-143, 144-145
- AWH: pages 44-66
Early Empires
 Early Empires in the Ancient Near East (Chapter 3)
in the Ancient
 Timeline p54
Near East
 Babylonian Empire
TEKS – 1, 3A,
- Hammurabi’s Code
19A, 20B, 23,
- http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm
25, 26, 27
- Hammurabi image
- Pg 64 Cause and effect
- DBQ
 Persia (4.3) (political/cultural influences, citizen v. non-citizen) and
Zoroastrianism
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China - Zhou & Qin, Han, (Chapter 6)
- Silk Road DBQ
 India- India (Maurya and Gupta) - Fundamental Eastern Ideas (political,
religious, cultural influences), (Chapter 5)
- math science, technology
- AWH: pages 70-74
Unit 2:
Greece & Rome
Greece
 Ancient Greeks (Chapter 4)
 City-States
 Greece – Fundamental Western Ideas (political democracy &
oligarchy and tie to American ideals),
- math science, technology
- Homer p 79
- Hellenism & Alexander the Great
- AWH: Greece – pages 86-89, Alexander the Great – pages 94-95
 The Romans (Chapter 7)
 Rome – Fundamental Western Ideas (democratic-republican
government), math science, tech
Hannibal
Biographies p161
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TEKS – 1, 2, 3, 19,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27
Rome
TEKS – 1, 3, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
BM #1 10/12-10/16 =
Make sure you have
finished Greece and
started early Rome.
Decline of Rome and
the Rise of Christianity
TEKS – 1, 3, 4, 20, 23,
24, 26
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Decline of Rome and the Rise of Christianity (Chapter 7,
lesson 3) (Chapter 8)
Compare decline to collapse of Han China
Christianity
Spread of Christianity
AWH: pages 80-85
Term 2: October 26 – December 18
Unit 3:
Part 1 – Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire
 Byzantine Empire (Chapter 8, Lesson 5)
- Roman Catholic vs. Eastern Orthodoxy
- Justinian’s Code of Laws– Judeo Christian legal tradition –
Christianity as a unifying force in the Byzantine Empire
TEKS 3, 4, 20, 23, 26
AWH: pages 110 – 113
Islam and the Arab
Empire
TEKS 1, 4, 7, 15, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27, 29, 30
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Islam and the Arab Empire (Chapter 9 and Chapter 19)
Islam – interactions between Muslims and Hindus in South
Asia, influence on law and government in the Muslim
World
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Islamic Caliphates- impact Europe/Asia/Africa, math
science, tech
Islam
Monotheism
AWH: pages 114 – 117
Unit 4:
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Age of
Charlemagne
Age of Charlemagne (Chapter 8, lesson 4)
TEKS 1, 23, 24
Middle Ages
Medieval Kingdoms in Europe (Chapter 10)
TEKS 1, 4, 15, 20, 23, 24,
29, 30
 Medieval Europe – feudalism and manoralism – (major
characteristics and factors contributing to)
 AWH: pages 128 – 129, 150 – 151, 24-25 (Suggested: 108 – 109,
124 – 125, 136 – 137)
Civilizations of East
Asia
TEKS 1, 3, 4, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 29, 30
Civilizations of East Asia (Chapter 11)
China Tang and Song – political, economic, and cultural developments
- Fundamental Eastern Ideas
- Tang – Ming: math science, tech
Ming dynasty and world trade
- Tang – Ming: math science, tech
- AWH: 118-121, 134-135, 168-171
Mongols:
Mongol invasions of Russia, China, and Islamic world
AWH: 154-159
Feudal Japan
Term 3: January 5 – March 11
Unit 5:
TEKS – 1, 4, 20, 23, 24,
26, 29
Crusades and Culture in the Middle Ages
(Chapter 12)
Crusades:
 How Crusades, Black Death, Hundred Years War, and Great
Schism contribute to the end of medieval Europe
Magna Carta (14.3)
AWH: pages 152 – 153
Kingdoms and
States of
Medieval Africa
TEKS – 1, 4, 15, 16, 23,
24, 26
Kingdoms and States of Medieval Africa
(Chapter 13)
African gold-salt trade – how did this facilitate the spread of ideas and
trade
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Pre-Columbian
America
Pre-Columbian America (Chapter 14)
Unit 6:
Renaissance & Protestant Reformation
(Chapter 15 and 16)
TEKS (27, 29)
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TEKS – 1, 5, 19,
23, 26, 27
Unit 7:
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TEKS – 1, 4, 6, 7,
23
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TEKS – 5, 19, 20,
23, 24, 26
North America
Maya
Aztec
Inca
Renaissance and Reformation:
- Renaissance and Reformation (Chapter 15)–
secularism’s effect on political development,
- Elizabeth I, printing press, John Calvin, Thomas
Aquinas
Renaissance & Reformation
- AWH: 162-167
- AWH: 192-193, 176-179, 26-27
Part 1: Age of Exploration (Chapter 17)
Exploration:
 European exploration – causes, impact on Inca/Aztec
 Columbian Exchange (pg 501)
 Atlantic Slave Trade (Chapter 20) – impact on West Africa and
Americas
- William Wilberforce (651)
Age of Exploration
AWH: pages 184-185 (suggested: 180-183, 186-189, 196-199,
200-203)
Conflict and Absolutism in Europe (Chapter 18)
Unit 8:
The East Asian World (Chapter 20 and 26)
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Ottoman Empire- impact on Eastern Europe and global trade
Sikhism (252-264)
TEKS – 1, 7, 8, 26,
29
Middle East: Gunpowder Empires & Sikhism
AWH: pages 160-161, 194-195
Qing China
Review of China’s History
Term 4: March 21 – June 2
Unit 9:
Enlightenment, Revolutions, & Napoleon
TEKS – 1, 9, 18, 20, 21,
(Chapter 21)
25, 26, 27, 29
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TEKS – 1, 9, 19, 20,
29
Enlightenment – impact on political revolutions - John Locke,
Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean
Jacques Rousseau, William Blackstone**
Enlightenment
 AWH: pages 210-211
 French Revolution and Napoleon (Chapter 22)
 Compare French Revolution/American Revolution /Glorious
Revolution (limited monarchy, democracy)
 Vocabulary: separation of powers, checks and balances,
liberty, equality, democracy, popular sovereignty, human
rights, constitutionalism, nationalism
 Documents: English Bill of Rights, Declaration of
Independence, US Constitution, Declaration of the Rights of
Man and of the Citizen
 Thomas Jefferson
 Latin American Revolutions - Simon Bolivar
 Napoleon Bonaparte
 Scientific Revolution– Copernicus, Galileo, Isaac Newton,
Robert Boyle
Revolutions
AWH: pages 176-179, 212-213, 218-221, 222-225, 248-251, 30-31
Napoleon
 AWH: pages 236-237
Unit 10: 4/11-4/15
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TEKS – 1, 8, 9, 15,
17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24,
26, 28, 29
Industrialization and Nationalism ( Chapter 2324)
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Europe’s Commercial Revolution
Industrial Revolution (Chapter 25) – how 17th &18th century
scientific advances led to this. – (Relate this to a major shift
like the Neolithic Revolution)
effects of free enterprise, economics, important changes in
human life, drove political change, textile manufacturing,
steam technology, factory system, transportation technology
James Watt
Free Enterprise – origins and characteristics, Adam Smith,
The Wealth of Nations, improved human condition
Communism – origins and characteristics , Karl Marx
Socialism – origins and characteristics
William Wilberforce (can also cover under slavery)
Queen Victoria
Scientist Inventors: Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Louis
Pasteur
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Industrial Revolution
 AWH: 238-243, 272-275, 28-29
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The Reach of
Imperialism
TEKS – 1, 8, 16, 28
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The Reach of Imperialism (Chapter 25)
European Imperialism– major political, economic, and social
motivations, major characteristics and impacts – role of
military tech, transportation tech, communication, tech,
medical advancements
 Suez Canal
 Panama Canal; Spanish American War, US and US territories
USH STAAR Date 1898
 Mohandas Gandhi(30:4,
Imperialism
AWH: pages 230-233, 260-265, 234-235, 258-259, 266-267,
244-247, 252-255
Unit 11: 4/184/22
WWI & Russian Revolution (Chapter 27)
TEKS – 1, 10, 18, 20, 21,
24, 28, 29
 World War I- imperialism, nationalism, militarism, alliance
- Total war(pg755), trench warfare (pg749), modern military
technology (pg750-751), high casualty rates (763)
- Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles –
impact on boundaries and the mandate system (29.4)
- League of Nations and United Nations USH STAAR Date
1914-1918
 Genocide in the Balkans
 Political Mass Murder Armenia
 Russia - February (March) and October Revolutions of 1917
Russia, Bolshevik Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, - impact
on WWI
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WWI
 AWH: pages 256-257, 284-289
Russian Revolution & Nationalism
Unit 12: 4/22-5/6
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TEKS – 1, 10, 11,
12, 13, 16, 18, 19,
20, 22, 24, 26, 28,
31
Between the World Wars & WWII (Chapter 28
and 30)
 Totalitarianism (775) – emergence and characteristics
 Global Depression – international political and economic causes
- US/Germany/Soviet Union responses to depression
(Chapter 28)
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- Albert Einstein USH STAAR Date 1929
 Fascism - origins and characteristics
 World War II (Chapter 30) German invasions of Poland and
Soviet Union, Holocaust-Genocide, Japanese Imperialism, Pearl
Harbor, Normandy, Atomic Bombs
 US Office of War Information
- Benito Mussolini , Adolf Hitler , Hideki Tojo**, Joseph
Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Henry
Truman USH STAAR Date 1939-1945
Between the World Wars
 AWH: pages 290 – 293
WWII
AWH: pages 294 – 295, 296 – 301
Between the World Wars & WWII (Cont’d)
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 Totalitarianism– emergence and characteristics
 Global Depression – international political and economic causes
- US/Germany/Soviet Union responses to depression
- Albert Einstein USH STAAR Date 1929
 Fascism - origins and characteristics
 World War II (Chapter 30) German invasions of Poland and Soviet
Union, Holocaust-Genocide, Japanese Imperialism, Pearl Harbor,
Normandy, Atomic Bombs
 US Office of War Information
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- Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Hideki Tojo**, Joseph Stalin,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Henry Truman USH STAAR Date 1939-1945
Between the World Wars
 AWH: pages 290 – 293
WWII
AWH: pages 294 – 295, 296 – 301
Unit 12: 5/6- 6/2
TEKS – 1, 13, 15,
22, 24, 26, 28, 29
Cold War (Chapter 31)
 Politically Motivated Mass Murders: Soviet Union
 Mao Zedong- how Chinese communism differs from Soviet
communism
 Communist China: Mao Zedong; differs from Soviet communism
- Politically Motivated Mass Murders: China, Cambodia
 Cold War (Chapter 31) – how WWII contributed, Korean War,
Vietnam War, Arms Race, Domino Theory
- Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher** Britain's first female
prime minister (1979-1990)
- Military technology
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Communist Command Economies vs Free Market Economies (20th Century)
Cold War
AWH: pages 306 - 315
Unit 14: 4/27 – 6/6
Independent and Nationalism in the Developing
World
TEKS – 1, 13, 14, 19, 20,
22, 24, 25, 26
Globalization
End of Year Projects &
Finals
- Genocide in Rwanda,
- Darfur**
- Independence Movements in Middle East, South
Asia (ongoing conflicts)
- Golda Meir , Indira Gandhi
- Arab rejection of Israel (ongoing conflict)
- Islamic Fundamentalism – Palestinian terrorism
- Independence Movements in Latin America - Oscar
Romero, Natan Sharansky**, Las Madres de la
Plaza de Mayo**, Politically Motivated Mass
Murders Latin America
- Independence Movements in Africa - Nelson
Mandela,
- Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Pope John Paul
II
- Tiananmen Square
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Globalization (Chapter 35) – economic and social impact –how
telecommunication, computer tech, transportation, and medical
advancements influenced this, Mother Teresa
 US response to 9/11 – US2-US15, alQaeda**
 USH STAAR Date 2001
End of Year Projects & review for finals.
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