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Standards |
Description |
Lessons |
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1
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Describe developments in Italy and Northern Europe
during the Renaissance period with respect to humanism, arts,
literature, intellectual development, and advances in technology. |
8 |
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2 |
Describe the role of mercantilism
and imperialism in European exploration and colonization in the
sixteenth century, including the Columbian Exchange |
4 |
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2.1 |
Describe the impact of the Commercial
Revolution on European society |
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2.2 |
Identifying major
ocean currents, wind patterns, landforms, and climates affecting
European Colonization |
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3 |
Explain the causes
of the Reformation and its impact, including tensions between
religious and secular authorities, reformers and doctrines, the
Counter-Reformation, the English Reformation, and wars of religion |
6 |
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4 |
Explain the relationship between
physical geography and cultural development in India, Africa, Japan,
and China in the early Global Age, including travel and trade,
natural resources, and movement and isolation of people and ideas. |
6 |
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4.1 |
Depicting the
general location of, size of, and distance between regions in the
early Global Age. |
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5 |
Evaluate the rise of absolutism and
constitutionalism and their impact on European nations |
3 |
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5.1 |
Contrasting the philosophies of Hobbes
and Locke and the belief in the divine right of kings |
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5.2 |
Comparing absolutism as it developed in
France, Russia, and Prussia, including the reigns of Louis
XIV, Peter the Great, and Frederick the Great. |
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5.3 |
Identifying major
provisions of the Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights |
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6 |
Identify the
significant ideas and achievements of scientists and philosophers of
the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment. |
6 |
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7 |
Describe the impact
of the French Revolution on Europe, including political evolution,
social evolution, and the diffusion of nationalism and liberalism. |
4 |
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7.1 |
Identifying the causes of the French
Revolution |
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7.2 |
Describing the influence of the
American Revolution upon the French Revolution |
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7.3 |
Identifying the objectives of
different groups participating in the French Revolution |
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7.4 |
Describing the
role of Napoleon as empire builder |
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8 |
Compare
revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Haiti,
Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico |
4 |
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9 |
Describe the technological
inventions, conditions of labor, and the economic theories of
capitalism, liberalism, socialism and Marxism during the
Industrial Revolution on the economics, society, and politics of
Europe. |
2 |
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10 |
Describe the
influence of urbanization in the nineteenth century on the Western
World. |
3 |
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10.1 |
Describing the
search for political democracy and social justice in the Western
World |
3 |
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11 |
Describe the
impact of European nationalism and Western imperialism as forces
of global transformation, including the unification of Italy and
Germany, the rise of Japan's power in East Asia, the economic
roots of imperialism, colonialism and nationalism |
3 |
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11.1 |
Describing the
resistance to European imperialism in Africa, Japan, and China |
3 |
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12 |
Explain the causes
(including imperialism, militarism. nationalism, and the alliance
system) and consequences of World War I. |
13 |
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12.1 |
Describing the rise of Communism in
Russia |
3 |
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12.2 |
Describing the military technology
used in WWI |
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12.3 |
Identifying problems created by the
Treaty of Versailles |
1 |
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12.4 |
Identifying
alliances during WWI and the boundary changes after the war |
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13 |
Explain the challenges of the
post-World War I period |
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13.1 |
Identifying the causes of the Great
Depression |
3 |
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13.2 |
Characterizing the
global impact of the Great Depression |
3 |
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14 |
Describe the
causes, course, and consequences of World War II |
9 |
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14.1 |
Explaining the rise of militarist and
totalitarian states states in Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union,
and Japan |
4 |
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14.2 |
Identify turning points of World War
II in the European and Pacific Theaters |
7 |
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14.3 |
Depicting geographic locations of
world events between 1939 and 1945. |
7 |
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14.4 |
Identify on a map
changes in national borders as a result of WWII |
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15 |
Describe the post World War II
realignment and reconstruction in Europe, Asia, and Latin America,
including the end of colonial empires. |
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15.1 |
Explaining the origins of the Cold War |
11 |
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15.2 |
Tracing the
progression of the Cold War |
11 |
16 |
Describe the role
of nationalism, militarism, and civil war in today's world,
including the use of terrorism, and modern weapons at the close of
the Twentieth Century and beginning of the Twenty-first Century |
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16.1 |
Describing the collapse of the Soviet
union and Russia's struggle for democracy. |
3 |
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16.2 |
Describing the effects of internal
conflict, enmity, and nationalism in South Africa. Northern
Ireland, Chile, the Middle East, Rwanda, Cambodia, and the Balkans |
6 |
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16.3 |
Characterizing the war on terrorism,
including the significance of the Iran Hostage Crisis, the Gulf
War, September 11th, and the Israeli-Pakistan conflict. |
9 |
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16.4 |
Depicting
geographic locations of major world events from 1945 to the
present |
9 |
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17 |
Describe emerging
democracies from the late twentieth century to the present |
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17.1 |
Discussing the problems and
opportunities involved with science, technology, and environment
in the late 20th Century |
6 |
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17.2 |
Identifying
problems involving civil liberties and human rights from 1945 to
the present and ways they have been addressed |
4 |
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17.3 |
Relating economic changes to social
changes in countries adopting democratic form of government |
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