Outline for Global History and Geography I:
Unit I: An Introduction to Social Sciences and River Valleys
Introduction to Global History and Geography
What is History?
Archaeology and Anthropology
Geography Awareness
Mesopotamia: The Tigris and Euphrates
Egypt: The Gift of the Nile
India: Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
China: The Huang He
Unit II: Classical Civilizations
Greeks and Alexander the Great
Romans
Maurya
Gupta
Shang and Zhou
Qin and Han
Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans
Trade Routes (Silk Road/Indian Ocean)
Unit III: Belief Systems
Animism and Shinto
The Rise of Monotheism: Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam
The Religions of South Asia: Hinduism and Buddhism
East Asian Belief Systems: Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Buddhist Fusion
Unit IV: The Post-Classical World
Byzantines and Russia
Medieval Europe
Islamic Civilization
Islamic Golden Age
Crusades
T’ang and Song Dynasties
Introduction to Japan
Unit V: Global Interactions
Japanese Feudalism
Mongols
African Kingdoms and Ibn Battuta
The Plague
The Effects of the Plague
Renaissance and Reformation
Scientific Revolution
Unit VI: Birth of the Modern World
Rise of Nation-States
Global Absolutism
Ming and Ching
Ottomans and Relationship to Safavids
Mughal India
Aztecs
Incas
New Trade Routes and the Rise of the Commercial Revolution
Age of Exploration
Conquistadors
Colonization and the Latin American Hierarchy
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Outline for Global History and Geography II:
Unit I: Age of Revolutions
Review of Global History and Geography I
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
Political Revolutions and Wars of Independence
Reaction against Revolutionary Ideas
Economic and Social Revolutions
Japan and the Meiji Restoration
Nationalism as a Unifying and Dividing Force
Imperialism
Unit II: Crises and Achievements
Road to War, Causes and Effects of World War I
Revolution in Russia
Rise of Totalitarianism and Great Depression
World War II and the Holocaust
Unit III: The Post-War World
The Birth of United Nations and the Cold War
Nationalism and Decolonization
The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union
Unit IV: Conflict and Change in Global Regions
Conflict and Change in the Middle East
Challenges of Economic and Political Development in Africa
Chinese Communist Revolution and Economic Reforms
Political and Economic Change in Latin America
Europe Redefines Itself
Turmoil in Southeast Asia
India and Pakistan
Unit V: Global Issues
Environmental Issues and Overpopulation
Migration, Globalization, and Class Issues
Unit VI: Get Ready for Global Regents
A Cross-Cultural Comparative Regional Review
