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  • World History
    • World History Honors
    • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
    • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
    • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
    • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Sea of Exploration
    • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
    • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
    • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
    • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
    • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
  • Civic Literacy
    • Governmental Figures
    • Unit 0 - Civics and Citizenship
    • Unit 1 - Legistlative Branch
    • Unit 2 - Executive Branch
    • Unit 3 - Judicial Branch
    • Unit 4 - Liberty & Justice for All
    • Unit 5 - State and Local Government
    • Unit 6 - Seeds of Rebellion
    • Unit 7 - The Young Republic
  • AP
    • AP World History >
      • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
      • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
      • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
      • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
      • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
      • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
    • AP European History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • American History
    • American History Honors >
      • Map Test
    • Unit 0: (1763 - 1800) - Revolutionary America
    • Unit 1: (1800 - 1848) - Expansion & Reform
    • Unit 2: (1824 - 1861) - A Nation Divided
    • Unit 3: (1861 - 1877) - Civil War & Rebirth
    • Unit 4: (1865 - 1898) - Gilded Dreams
    • Unit 5: (1890 - 1920) - The American Ascent
    • Unit 6: (1920 - 1945) - Roaring to Warring
    • Unit 7: (1945 - 1963) - Peace & Paranoia
    • Unit 8: (1955 - 1980) - The Fight for Justice
    • Unit 9: (1980-present) - Modern America
  • Western Civilization
    • Unit I: (prehistory-330BC) - Origins
    • Unit II (2700 - 323B.C.) - Classical Antiquity
    • Unit III (509BC - 476) - The Dream that was Rome
    • Unit IV (476 - 1216) - The Age of Faith
    • Unit V (1095 - 1492) - Crossroads of Catastrophe
    • Unit VI (1350 - 1620) - Into the Unknown
    • Unit VII (1517 - 1776) - Crisis of Faith
    • Unit VIII (1756 - 1815) - Revolution!
    • Unit IX (1769-1914) - Engineering of Empires
    • Unit X (1914 - 1920) - The Great War
    • Unit XI (1920 - 1945) - Twilight of Empires: A World at War
    • Unit XII (1945 - present) - Cold War & Globalization
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Origins

prehistory
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330B.C.
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” — William Shakespeare
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People to Know
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NEED TO KNOW
  • prehistory
  • Homo habilis, erectus, sapiens
  • Out of Africa
  • Ice Age
  • indications of art and religion​
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1.1 DAWN OF MAN

From meager beginnings, humans began to develop out of Africa. Over thousands of years humans became the dominate species on Earth, realizing they could shape the world around them and control their own destiny.
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The Story
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NEED TO KNOW​
  • Mesopotamia
  • ​Sumerians
  • Babylon and Hammurabi's Code
  • Land of Egypt
  • Egyptian kingdoms/eras
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1.2 THE FERTILE CRESCENT: CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION

As humans develop agriculture, they are able to form permanent settlements.  Sustained by an increase food production, larger populations develop between Mesopotamia in the Middle East and the Nile in Egypt becoming the cradles of civilization hosting the first of many civilizations in this land of the conquerors.
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  • ​Aryans and the caste system
  • Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
  • Xia, Shang & Zhou China
  • Mandate from Heaven
  • Chinese feudal system
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1.3 THE ANCIENT ORIENT

Invasions and feuds dominate the landscape of ancient India and China.  Meanwhile, the blending of cultures and ideas help to awaken the birth of major eastern religions that will come to dominate southern and eastern Asia; an area that will be known as the Orient. 
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NEED TO KNOW
  • Hittites
  • Phoenicians
  • Israelites 
  • Assyrians
  • NeoBabylonians
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1.4 THE  IRON AGE

Mesopotamia becomes the battleground for empires attempting to rule their known world.  Forged in iron, each empire suffers the same fate either contending with outside invaders or succumbing to their own overexpanded success in the ongoing rise and fall of empires.
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  • World History
    • World History Honors
    • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
    • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
    • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
    • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Sea of Exploration
    • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
    • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
    • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
    • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
    • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
  • Civic Literacy
    • Governmental Figures
    • Unit 0 - Civics and Citizenship
    • Unit 1 - Legistlative Branch
    • Unit 2 - Executive Branch
    • Unit 3 - Judicial Branch
    • Unit 4 - Liberty & Justice for All
    • Unit 5 - State and Local Government
    • Unit 6 - Seeds of Rebellion
    • Unit 7 - The Young Republic
  • AP
    • AP World History >
      • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
      • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
      • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
      • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
      • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
      • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
    • AP European History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • American History
    • American History Honors >
      • Map Test
    • Unit 0: (1763 - 1800) - Revolutionary America
    • Unit 1: (1800 - 1848) - Expansion & Reform
    • Unit 2: (1824 - 1861) - A Nation Divided
    • Unit 3: (1861 - 1877) - Civil War & Rebirth
    • Unit 4: (1865 - 1898) - Gilded Dreams
    • Unit 5: (1890 - 1920) - The American Ascent
    • Unit 6: (1920 - 1945) - Roaring to Warring
    • Unit 7: (1945 - 1963) - Peace & Paranoia
    • Unit 8: (1955 - 1980) - The Fight for Justice
    • Unit 9: (1980-present) - Modern America
  • Western Civilization
    • Unit I: (prehistory-330BC) - Origins
    • Unit II (2700 - 323B.C.) - Classical Antiquity
    • Unit III (509BC - 476) - The Dream that was Rome
    • Unit IV (476 - 1216) - The Age of Faith
    • Unit V (1095 - 1492) - Crossroads of Catastrophe
    • Unit VI (1350 - 1620) - Into the Unknown
    • Unit VII (1517 - 1776) - Crisis of Faith
    • Unit VIII (1756 - 1815) - Revolution!
    • Unit IX (1769-1914) - Engineering of Empires
    • Unit X (1914 - 1920) - The Great War
    • Unit XI (1920 - 1945) - Twilight of Empires: A World at War
    • Unit XII (1945 - present) - Cold War & Globalization