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Turning Points/ Change: Neolithic Revolution, development of feudalism, crusades, the
plague, meiji reformation, French Revolution, development of the printing press,
Protestant Reformation, industrial revolution, World War I, World War II, the fall of the
Soviet Union.
Movement of Peoples and Goods/ interdependence : The spread of the Black Death,
Voyages of Zheng He, Travels of Marco Polo, African Trading Kingdoms and the spread
of Islam to west Africa, Columbian Exchange, the middle passage, Irish Potato Famine.
Economic Change: Commercial Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Russian Revolution,
Triangle Trade.
Non-Political Revolution: Neolithic Revolution, renaissance, Enlightenment,
Commercial Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Green Revolution
Political Revolutions: French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Chinese Revolution, ,
Haitian Revolution.
Technology: Aqueducts, printing press, steam engine, the atomic bomb
Political systems: Direct democracy, representative democracy, totalitarian government,
communism, fascism, absolute monarchy, limited monarchy, theocracy
Economic system: Capitalism, Socialism/communism, Mercantilism, feudalism, barter
Conflict: Crusades, French Revolution, Protestant Reformation, World War I, World
War II, Cold War, Russian Revolution, Chinese Revolution, Iranian revolution, Haitian
Revolution, RUF in Sierra Leone, India vs. Pakistan.
Golden Ages: ancient Athens, Rome, Byzantine, Mongols, African trading Kingdoms,
Mayans, Incas, Gupta, Ottoman.
Belief Systems: Animism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism,
Confucianism.
LAW: Ten Commandments, Hammurabi Code, Twelve tables, Justinian Code, Five
Pillars of Faith, Five relationships, Magna Carta.
Human Rights: Encomienda system, Middle Passage, Holocaust, Rape of Nanking,
Apartheid in South Africa, Hutus vs. Tutsis in Rwanda, RUF in Sierra Leone, Darfur
Nationalism: Bismarck and Germany, Sepoy Mutiny, Boxer Rebellion, Kenya and Jomo
Kenyatta, Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
Imperialism: The Spanish conquest of South America, The Opium Wars, Berlin
Conference, Partition of Africa, British control of India, Japanese Imperialism
How geography affects people: Ancient Egypt and the Nile, Mesopotamia and the
Fertile Crescent, Inca’s, Japan, Russia.
Interdependence (how and why people depend on each other): Triangle trade, African
Trading Kingdoms Alliances during World War I, the worlds need for mid east oil,
globalization of the world economy.
People who made change: Hammurabi, Alexander the Great, Martin Luther, Leonardo
DaVinici, Johannes Guttenberg, John Locke, Adam Smith, Karl Marx Catharine the
Great, Mansa Musa, Toussaint L’Overture, Genghis Kahn, Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill,
Lenin, Stalin, Castro.