10th Grade World History TEKS Checklist 2011-2012
History
Development of Agriculture
River Valley Civilizations
Development of classical civilizations
Greece, Rome, Persia, India & China
Development of major world religions
Decline of Rome & Formation of Medieval Europe
Development of Islamic caliphates
Impact of Islamic caliphates on Europe, Asia &
Africa
Impact of Mongol invasions on Europe, China,
India & Southwest Asia
Causes/effects of Ottoman Empire
Influence of Ming Dynasty on trade
European exploration
Causes/effects of Columbian Exchange
Causes/effects of European Expansion
Causes/effects of Renaissance
Causes/effects of Reformation
Causes/effects of Scientific Revolution
Causes/effects of Industrial Revolution
Causes/effects of European imperialism
Impact of Enlightenment on political revolutions
Causes/effects of the World Wars
World Wars’ impact on society, politics &
economy
Communist Revolutions (impact)
Independence movements
Globalization
Neolithic Revolutions
Characteristics of a civilization
River Valley Civilizations influenced development
of Classical Civilizations
Political, culture, religious/philosophical influences
of Persia, China, India, Israel, Greece, Rome
Monotheism
Judaism & Christianity
Impact of fall of the Roman Empire
Factors that led to fall of Rome and Han China
Social/Political factors of Christianity in Byzantine
Empire
Roman Catholicism & Eastern Orthodoxy
Feudalism
Manorialism
Islam impact on Europe, Asia & Africa
Muslim, Christian & Jewish interactions in Europe,
Asia and North Africa
Muslim and Hindu interactions
Crusades
Black Death
Hundred Years’ War
Great Schism
Tang & Song China – impact on East Asia
Development of slave trade
Silk Road (impact)
African gold-salt trade (impact)
Mongols’ invasions of Russia, China and Islamic
world
Renaissance (political, intellectual, artistic,
economic & religious impacts)
Reformation (political, intellectual, artistic,
economic & religious impacts)
Maya Civ (political, economic, social & cultural
developments)
Inca Civ (political, economic, social & cultural
developments)
Aztec Civ (political, economic, social & cultural
developments)
Prior civilizations that influenced the Maya, Inca &
Aztec civilizations
Inca & Aztec empires impacted by European
exploration/colonization
Causes/effects of European expansion
Impact of Columbian Exchange on Americas &
Europe
Impact of Atlantic slave trade on West
Africa & Americas
Impact of Ottoman Empire on Eastern
Europe & global trade
Ming China’s impact on global trade
Commercial Revolution
17th & 18 Century European scientific
advancements
Causes of Industrial Revolution
Social, political & economic effects of the
Industrial Revolution in Europe
European Imperialism
Free Enterprise in Industrial Rev
Compare American/French Rev
Enlightenment, Glorious Rev & Religion
Impact of Napoleon Bonaparte
Impact of American/French Rev on Latin
America
Simon Bolivar
Separation of powers
Checks & balances
Liberty
Equality
Popular Sovereignty
Human rights
Constitutionalism
Nationalism
Imperialism, Nationalism, Militarism &
Alliance system in causing WW I
Total war
Trench warfare
Modern military technology
High casualty rates
Wilson’s 14 Points
Treaty of Versailles
February/October Revolutions of 1917 in
Russia
Bolshevik establishment of USSR
International, political & economic causes
of global depression
US gov’t response to global depression
Germany’s gov’t response to global
depression
Soviet Union’s gov’t response to global
depression
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Joseph Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Causes & events of WWII
Germany’s invasions
Japanese Imperialism
Pearl Harbor
Normandy landings
Atomic bombs
WWII’s outcome contributed to Cold War
Chinese Communism compared to
Soviet Communism
Mao Zedong
Korean War
Vietnam War
Arms Race
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lech Walesa
Pope John Paul II
Independence movements in Africa, the
Middle East & South Asia
State of Israel (Arab rejection)
Radical Islamic fundamentalism
Palestinian terrorism
Al Qaeda
US response to 9.11.01
Geography
Thematic maps, graphs, charts
Geographic distributions
Locate regions & places of significance
Human geographic factors on events in world
history
Physical geographic factors on events in world
history
Indian Ocean (trade)
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
Neolithic Rev effects on human life
Economy drives political changes as found in
Neolithic and Industrial Revolutions
Economic & social impact of 20th Century
globalization
Economics
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations
Karl Marx
Socialism
Fascism
Communist command market collapse
Economic freedom improved human life
Europe’s Commercial Revolution, Industrial
Revolution, 20th Cent Free Market economies
Government
Monarchy (Absolute, Limited)
Theocracy
Democracy
Republic
Oligarchy
Totalitarianism
Democratic-Republic govt from Judeo-Christian
legal tradition through Enlightenment
Hammurabi’s Code
Jewish Ten Commandments
Justinian’s Code of Laws
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
US Constitution
Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizens
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
Charles de Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Aquinas
John Calvin
Thomas Jefferson
William Blackstone
League of Nations
United Nations
Citizenship
Support/change gov’t
Rights & responsibilities
Citizens/noncitizens
Civic participation
William Wilberforce
Development of rule of law from ancient to
modern times
Trial by jury of peers
Innocent until proven guilty
Equality before the law
Political mass murders in Cambodia, China, Latin
America, Soviet Union & Armenia
Genocide in Balkans, Rwanda & Darfur
Holocaust
Nelson Mandela
Mohandas Gandhi
Oscar Romero
10th Grade World History TEKS Checklist 2011-2012
Natan Sharansky
Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Tiananmen Square
American ideals advanced human rights &
democratic ideas
Culture
Buddhism
Christianity
Confucianism
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Sikhism
Monotheism
Religious influence on various events
Changing roles of women, children & families
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Mother Teresa
Indira Gandhi
Margaret Thatcher
Golda Meir
Relationship between Christianity, individualism &
growing secularism
Renaissance
Islam influences law/govt in Muslim world
Significant art & architecture
Literature, music & drama
Transcending art, music, drama & lit from a culture
Origin & diffusion of mathematics, science &
technology in river valley civ, Greece/Rome, India,
Islamic caliphates (700-1200), and China (TangMing)
Major ideas in astronomy, math & architecture in
Mayan, Aztec and Incan civilizations
Printing Press (impact)
Scientific Revolution (16th Cent Europe)(impact)
Archimedes
Copernicus
Eratosthenes
Galileo
Pythagoras
Isaac Newton
Robert Boyle
Science, Technology & Society
Role of textile manufacturing
Steam technology
Industrial Revolution
Factory system
Transportation technology
Military technology (political impact)
Communication technology (political impact)
Medical advancements (political impact)
WWI, WWII & Cold War military technologies
(effects)
Developing modern global economy with
telecommunication, computer, transportation and
medical advancements
Marie Curie
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Louis Pasteur
James Watt
Skills
Archaeologists’ methods
Anthropologists’ methods
Historians’ methods
Geographers’ methods
Primary/secondary sources
Frame of reference, Point of view
Historical context
Evaluate validity of sources
Bias in written, oral & visual material
Sequence
Categorize
Identify cause/effect
Compare/contrast
Find main idea/summarize
Make generalizations & predictions
Draw inferences & conclusions
Develop connections between historical
events over time
Construct a thesis on a social studies issue
or event supported by evidence
Reading & mathematical skills to interpret
social studies info
Use social studies terminology
Use grammar, spelling, sentence structure
& punctuation
Create original work using citations (no
plagiarism)
Interpret & create written, oral and visual
presentations of social studies info
Transfer info from one medium to another
Problem solving skills
Decision making process
Introduction Paragraph
People, events & issues from earliest times
to present
Traditional historical points of reference
Western and other Civilizations
Causes/effects of political, economic
imperialism
Major political revolutions since 17th
Century
Impact of geographic factors on events
Historic origins of economic systems
Evolution of Constitutional governments
Development of political and legal
concepts
Impact of major religions & philosophical
ideas
Science/technology connections to
industrial economies
Historical inquiry to research, interpret, use
multiple sources of evidence
8,000 – 500 BCE River Valley Civ
500 BCE – 600 CE Classical Era
600 CE – 1450 Post Classical Era
1450 – 1750 Connecting Hemispheres
1750 – 1914 Age of Revolutions
1914 – present 20th Century
Use primary, secondary sources, state
papers, legal documents, charters,
constitutions, biographies, autobiographies,
speeches, letters, literature, music, art and
architecture
Free Enterprise/Capitalism/Free Market
System
Constitutional Republic/Representative
Government