WORLD HISTORY GRADE: 9

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1 WORLD HISTORY GRADE: 9 PREREQUISITE: A required Scial Studies curse COURSE DESCRIPTION: Wrld Histry and Gegraphy is a mandatry yearlng survey curse and is usually cmpleted in the 9 th grade year. The curse will explre the histry f the wrld beginning with the early civilizatins thrugh the present. Units will examine the plitical, ecnmic, and scial influences f the varius time perids thrughut histry. Students will develp a greater understanding f the develpment f wrld-wide events, prcesses, and interactins amng the wrld s peple, cultures, scieties, and envirnments. Wrld Histry and Gegraphy will enable a student t lcate themselves and ur sciety in the wrld, amng the scieties and peples f the wrld. It will prepare students t take up the challenges f life in the 21st century by explring the cmmn and diverse strands that frmed and cntinue t shape ur present life. It enables the students t understand the wrld that we encunter daily while develping the habits f mind essential fr demcratic citizenship. POWER STANDARDS: Students will have the fllwing fundatinal knwledge upn entering the P-CEP Wrld Histry and Gegraphy curse: Explain the basic features and differences between hunter-gatherer scieties, pastral nmads, civilizatins, and empires, fcusing upn the differences in their plitical, ecnmic and scial systems, and their changing interactins with the envirnment. Changes brught n by the Agricultural Revlutin, the envirnmental impact f settlements. Explain the way that the wrld religins r belief systems f Hinduism, Judaism, Cnfucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam grew, spatial representatins f that grwth interactins with culturally diverse peples respnses t the challenges ffered by cntact with different faiths ways they influenced peple s perceptins f the wrld. Identify the lcatin and causes f frntier interactins and cnflicts, and internal disputes between cultural, scial and/r religius grups in classical China, the Mediterranean wrld, and suth Asia (India) prir t 300 C.E. Students will be able t: Explain the respnses t cmmn frces f change that led t the ultimate cllapse f classical empires and discuss the cnsequences f their cllapse. Using histrical and mdern maps and ther dcuments, analyze the cntinuing spread f majr wrld religins during this era and describe encunters between religius grups Islam and Christianity (Rman Cathlic and Orthdx) increased trade and the Crusades Islam and Hinduism in Suth Asia cntinuing tensins between Cathlic and Orthdx Christianity Analyze the develpment, interdependence, specializatin, and imprtance f interreginal trading systems bth within and between scieties land-based rutes acrss the Sahara, Eurasia and Eurpe water-based rutes acrss Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Suth China Sea, Red and Mediterranean Seas

2 Identify and explain the rigins and expansin f Islam and the creatin f the Islamic Empire : The funding gegraphic extent f Muslim empires and the artistic, scientific, technlgical, and ecnmic features f Muslim sciety diverse religius traditins f Islam Sunni, Shi a/shi ite, Sufi rle f Dar al-islam as a cultural, plitical, and ecnmic frce in Afr-Eurasia the caliphate as bth a religius and plitical institutin, and the persistence f ther traditins in the Arab Wrld Christianity Using histrical and mdern maps, lcate and describe the gegraphic patterns f Mngl cnquest and expansin and describe the characteristics f the Pax Mnglica Using histrical and mdern maps and ther evidence, explain the causes and spread f the Plague and analyze the demgraphic, ecnmic, scial, and plitical cnsequences f this pandemic. Describe the diverse characteristics f early African scieties and the significant changes in African sciety. Describe the diverse characteristics f early American civilizatins and scieties in Nrth, Central, and Suth America by cmparing and cntrasting the majr aspects (gvernment, religin, interactins with the envirnment, ecnmy, and scial life) f American Indian civilizatins and scieties such as the Maya, Aztec, Inca, Puebl, and/r Eastern Wdland peples. Explain hw Chinese dynasties respnded t the internal and external challenges caused by ethnic diversity, physical gegraphy, ppulatin grwth and Mngl invasin t achieve relative plitical stability, ecnmic prsperity, and technlgical innvatin. Analyze restructuring f the Eastern Eurpean system the rise and decline f the Byzantine Empire the regin s unique spatial lcatin the regin s plitical, ecnmic, and religius transfrmatins emerging tensins between East and West Explain the wrkings f feudalism, manralism, and the grwth f centralized mnarchies and city-states in Eurpe the rle and plitical impact f the Rman Cathlic Church in Eurpean medieval sciety hw agricultural innvatin and increasing trade led t the grwth f twns and cities the rle f the Crusades, 100 years War, and the Bubnic Plague in the early develpment f centralized natin-states the cultural and scial impact f the Renaissance n Western and Nrthern Eurpe Analyze the demgraphic, envirnmental, and plitical cnsequences f Eurpean ceanic travel and cnquest and f the Clumbian Exchange in the late 15th and 16th centuries. Analyze the emerging trans-atlantic slave system and cmpare it t ther systems f labr existing during this era. Analyze the majr plitical, religius, ecnmic, and cultural transfrmatins in the Ottman Empire. Analyze the majr plitical, religius, ecnmic, and cultural transfrmatins in East Asia.

3 Analyze the glbal ecnmic significance f India and the rle f freign influence in the plitical, religius, cultural, and ecnmic transfrmatins in India and Suth Asia the Mughal Empire and the beginnings f Eurpean cntact. Analyze the majr plitical, religius, ecnmic, and cultural transfrmatins in Russia. Analyze the majr plitical, religius, cultural and ecnmic transfrmatins in Eurpe. Analyze clnial transfrmatins in Latin America. Analyze the causes and glbal cnsequences f majr plitical and industrial revlutins fcusing n changes in relative plitical and military pwer, ecnmic prductin, and cmmerce. Analyze the causes and cnsequences f shifts in wrld ppulatin and majr patterns f lng-distance migratins f Eurpeans, Africans, and Asians during this era, the impact f industrialism, imperialism, changing diets, and scientific advances n wrldwide demgraphic trends. Describe increasing glbal intercnnectins between scieties, thrugh the emergence and spread f ideas, innvatins, and cmmdities cnstitutinalism, cmmunism and scialism, republicanism, natinalism, capitalism, human rights, and secularizatin the glbal spread f majr innvatins, technlgies, and cmmdities via new glbal netwrks Cmpare the emerging ecnmic and plitical systems (industrialism and demcracy) with the ecnmic and plitical systems f the previus era (agriculture and abslutism) Describe Eurpe s increasing glbal pwer between 1500 and 1900, and evaluate the merits f the argument that this rise was caused by factrs internal t Eurpe (e.g., Renaissance, Refrmatin, demgraphic, ecnmic, and scial changes) r factrs external t Eurpe (e.g., decline f Mughal and Ottman empires and the decreasing engagement f China and Japan in glbal interactins). Analyze the Age f Revlutins by cmparing and cntrasting the plitical, ecnmic, and scial causes and cnsequences f at least three plitical and/r natinalistic revlutins (American, French, Haitian, Mexican r ther Latin American, r Chinese Revlutins) Cmpare and cntrast the rise f the natin-states in a western cntext (e.g., Germany, Italy) and nn-western cntext (e.g., Meiji Japan). Analyze the rigins, characteristics and cnsequences f industrializatin acrss the Wrld. Analyze the plitical, ecnmic, and scial causes and cnsequences f imperialism. Explain the expanding rle f state pwer in managing ecnmies, transprtatin systems, and technlgies, and ther scial envirnments, its impact f the daily lives f their citizens. Use histrical and mdern maps and ther surces t analyze and explain the changes in the glbal balance f military, plitical, and ecnmic pwer between 1900 and 1945 ( the changing rle f the United States and thse resisting freign dminatin). Use varius surces wrks f jurnalists, jurnals, ral histries, films, interviews, and writings f participants t analyze the causes and cnsequences f the gencides f Armenians, Rmas (Gypsies), and Jews, and the mass exterminatins f Ukrainians and Chinese. Describe significant technlgical innvatins and scientific breakthrughs in transprtatin, cmmunicatin, medicine, and warfare and analyze hw they bth benefited and imperiled humanity. Analyze the causes, characteristics, and lng-term cnsequences f Wrld War I.

4 Analyze the transfrmatins that shaped wrld scieties between Wrld War I and Wrld War II. Analyze the causes, curse, characteristics, and immediate cnsequences f Wrld War II. Cmpare tw revlutinary and/r Independence mvements f this era (Latin America, India, China, the Arab Wrld, and Africa) with at least ne frm the previus era. Determine the causes and results f the Russian Revlutin frm the rise f Blsheviks thrugh the cnclusin f Wrld War II, the five-year plans, cllectivizatin f agriculture, and military purges. Cmpare the idelgies, plicies, and gverning methds f at least tw 20th-century dictatrial regimes (Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Sviet Unin) with thse abslutist states in earlier eras. Analyze the plitical, ecnmic, and scial transfrmatins that ccurred in this era, Japanese imperialism Chinese natinalism, the emergence f cmmunism, and civil war Indian independence struggle Analyze the plitical, ecnmic and scial transfrmatins that ccurred in this era, ecnmic imperialism (e.g., dllar diplmacy) freign military interventin and plitical revlutins in Central and Suth America natinalizatin f freign investments Analyze the plitical, ecnmic, and scial transfrmatins that ccurred in this era, the decline f the Ottman Empire changes in the Arab wrld the grwth f Arab natinalism, rise f Arab natin-states, and the increasing cmplexity (e.g., plitical, gegraphic, ecnmic, and religius) f Arab peples the rle f the Mandate system the discvery f petrleum resurces Describe the factrs that cntributed t the Cld War the differences in idelgies and plicies f the Sviet blc and the West; plitical, ecnmic, and military struggles in the 1940s and 1950s; and develpment f Cmmunism in China. Describe the majr arenas f cnflict, the ways the Sviet Unin and the United States attempted t expand pwer and influence in Krea and Vietnam idelgical and military cmpetitin in THREE f the fllwing areas: Cng, Cuba, Mzambique, Angla, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Blivia, Chile, Indnesia, and Berlin the arms and space race Develp an argument t explain the end f the Cld War and its significance as a 20thcentury event, and the subsequent transitins frm bi-plar t multi-plar center(s) f pwer. Analyze the cmplex and changing legacy f imperialism in Africa, Sutheast Asia, and Latin America during and after the Cld War such as apartheid, civil war in Nigeria, Vietnam, Cuba, Guatemala, and the changing nature f explitatin f resurces (human and natural). Cmpare the independence mvements and frmatin f new natins in the Indian Subcntinent, Africa, Eastern Eurpe, and Sutheast Asia during and after the Cld War.

5 Analyze the interreginal causes and cnsequences f cnflicts in the Middle East, the develpment f the state f Israel, Arab-Israeli disputes, Palestine, the Suez crisis, and the nature f the cntinuing cnflict. Explain the causes and cnsequences f ppulatin changes ver the past 50 years by analyzing the ppulatin change ( birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, grwth rate, dubling time, aging ppulatin, changes in science and technlgy) distributins f ppulatin ( relative changes in urban-rural ppulatin, gender, age, patterns f migratins, and ppulatin density) relatinship f the ppulatin changes t glbal interactins, and their impact n three regins f the wrld Explain the changes ver the past 50 years in the use, distributin, and imprtance f natural resurces ( land, water, energy, fd, renewable, nn-renewable, and flw resurces) n human life, settlement, and interactins by describing and evaluating change in spatial distributin and use f natural resurces the differences in ways scieties have been using and distributing natural resurces scial, plitical, ecnmic, and envirnmental cnsequences f the develpment, distributin, and use f natural resurces majr changes in netwrks fr the prductin, distributin, and cnsumptin f natural resurces grwth f multinatinal crpratins, and gvernmental and nn-gvernmental rganizatins (e.g., OPEC, NAFTA, EU, NATO, Wrld Trade Organizatin, Red Crss, Red Crescent) the impact f humans n the glbal envirnment Define the prcess f glbalizatin and evaluate the merit f this cncept t describe the cntemprary wrld by analyzing ecnmic interdependence f the wrld s cuntries and wrld trade patterns the exchanges f scientific, technlgical, and medical innvatins cultural diffusin and the different ways cultures/scieties respnd t new cultural ideas and patterns cmparative ecnmic advantages and disadvantages f regins, regarding cst f labr, natural resurces, lcatin, and traditin distributin f wealth and resurces and effrts t narrw the inequitable distributin f resurces Analyze the causes and challenges f cntinuing and new cnflicts by describing ASSESSMENTS: tensins resulting frm ethnic, territrial, religius, and/r natinalist differences (e.g., Israel/Palestine, Kashmir, Ukraine, Nrthern Ireland, al Qaeda, Shining Path) causes f and respnses t ethnic cleansing/gencide/mass exterminatin (e.g., Darfur, Rwanda, Cambdia, Bsnia) lcal and glbal attempts at peacekeeping, security, demcratizatin, and administering internatinal justice and human rights the type f warfare used in these cnflicts, terrrism, private militias, and new technlgies

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