Course Schedule (Tentative) for 2014-2015 School Year
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Unit 1: Technological and Environmental
Transformations, 8000 BCE – 600 BCE
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Length: 7 days
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Sterns
Chapter Guide:
Chapter 1- From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations
Unit Test 1
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Unit 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human
Societies (600 BCE – 600 CE)
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Length: 5 weeks
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Sterns
Chapter Guide:
Chapter 2- Classical
Civilization: China
Chapter 3- Classical Civilization: India
Chapter 4- Classical Civilization in the Mediterranean: Greece
and Rome
Chapter 5- The Classical Period: Directions, Diversities, and
Declines by 500 BCE
Unit Test 2
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Unit 3: Regional and Trans-regional
Interactions (600 CE – 1450 CE)
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Length: 7 weeks
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Sterns
Chapter Guide:
Chapter 6-The First Global Civilization: the Rise and Spread
Islam
Chapter 7- Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic
Civilization to South and Southeast Asia
Chapter 8- African Civilization and the Spread of Islam
Chapter 9- Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and
Orthodox Europe
Chapter 10- A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe
Chapter 11- The Americas of the Eve of Invasion
Chapter 12- Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese
Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties
Chapter13- The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and
Vietnam
Chapter 14- The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis
Khan to Timur
Chapter 15- The West and the Changing World Balance
Unit Test 3
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Unit 4:
Global Interactions (1450 CE –
1750 CE)
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Length: 7 weeks
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Sterns
Chapter Guide: 16-22
Chapter 16- The World
Economy
Chapter 17- The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750
Chapter 18- The Rise of Russia
Chapter 19- Early Latin America
Chapter 20- Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic
Slave Trade
Chapter 21- The Muslims Empires
Chapter 22- Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change
Unit Test 4
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Unit 5: Industrialization and Global Integration
(1750 CE – c. 1900 CE)
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Length: 4 weeks
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Sterns
Chapter Guide:
Chapter 23- The Emergence
of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1914
Chapter 24- Industrial
and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order
Chapter 25- The
Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920
Chapter 26- Civilization
in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China
Chapter 27- Russia and
Japan: Industrialization Outside the World
Unit Test 5
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Unit 6: Accelerating Global Change and
Realignments (c. 1900 CE – present)
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Length: 6 weeks 28-35
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Sterns
Chapter Guide:
Chapter 28- Descent into
the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order
Chapter 29- The World in
the 1920s: Challenges to European Dominance
Chapter 30- The Great
Depression and the Authoritarian Response
Chapter 31 – A Second Global Conflict and the End of European
World Order
Chapter 32- Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of
the Cold War
Chapter 33-Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st
Century
Chapter 34- Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of
Independence
Chapter 35- Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-building in East Asia
and the Pacific Rim
Unit Test 6
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