Global History



Global History

and

Geography

Course 1

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Study guide

Bath Central School

Bath, New York

Unit 1

Introduction to our World

A. Physical Earth

B. Culture

C. Chronological Time

Section A - Physical Earth

Ice

Japan

Mountains

China

Rainforest

South Asia

Rivers

Southeast Asia

Plains

Middle East

Islands

Africa

Deserts

Latin America

River Valleys

Europe

Locations of the Continents

World Physical Features

Global Regions

Physical Earth: Terms

• continent:

• region:

• latitude:

• longitude:

• Equator:

• Prime Meridian:

• International Dateline:

• hemispheres:

• monsoons:

Physical Features

Understanding how different physical features affect our cultures.

Section B - Culture

Art

Geography

Economy Politics

Language

Society

Customs Religion

Cultural Concepts

A. Cultural Diffusion:

Examples:

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B. Cultural Diversity:

Examples:

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C. 8 Elements of a Culture:

• Society:

• Art:

• Geography

• Language:

• Religion:

• Economy:

• Politics:

• Customs:

Section C - Chronological Time

A general overlook at the

timeframe of Earth’s history

Centuries/Decades

Timelines

BC/AD(CE)

Periods of History

Graphic Organizer

Time Management

Terms

Decades:

Centuries:

BC/AD:

BC:

AD:

CE:

Unit 2

Early Man

A. Neolithic Revolution

B. River Valley Civilizations

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Section A - Neolithic Revolution

Locations

Hunters/Gatherers

Migration

Permanent Homes

Organized Society

Extra Time

- government

- religion

Specialized Jobs - trade

- urban setting

CIVILIZATIONS !

Neolithic Revolution

Timeline

Map

Notes

• Paleolithic Age:

• Africa:

• migration:

• hunting and gathering:

• Neolithic Revolution:

How the revolution worked:

Essential Questions

1. What was the relationship between early people and the environment?

2. Why did hunters and gatherers not have permanent homes?

3. What do you think were the factors that led to the Neolithic Revolution?

4. What are the changes that took place as a result of the Neolithic Revolution?

Section B - River Valley Civilizations

Writing System

Organized Government

Organized Economy

based on trade

Urban Setting

Yellow/Huang He

Nile Indus

Tigris-Euphrates

New Technologies

Writing Systems

Architecture

Organized Religions

Laws

Timeline

Map

The 4 Major Early River Valley Civilizations

Notes

Civilization:

Elements that define a civilization:

• Organized government:

• Organized Economy:

• Writing System:

• Urban Setting:

The 4 Major River Valley Civilizations

What these Civilizations contributed to our life:

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Essential Questions

1. How is a civilization different from a community?

2. What is the reason that the greatest early civilizations all developed in river valleys?

3. Why was the development of writing systems so important to the development of civilizations?

Unit 3

Classical Civilizations

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Unit 3 - Classical Civilizations

I. Location of Classical Civilizations

II. Timeline - Classical Civilizations

III. Maurya Civilization

• Location:

• Why we study about

the Mauryian Civilization:

IV. Han Dynasty

• Location:

• Contributions to our society:

• Great Wall of China:

• Silk:

• Civil Service System:

• Dynasty System:

Mandate of Heaven:

V. Greece

• City-States:

Athens vs. Sparta:

• Alexander the Great:

• Hellenistic Culture:

Contributions to our Society

• Architecture:

• Philosophy:

Socrates – Plato – Aristotle:

• Democracy:

Citizen:

VI. Rome

The Roman “Empire”

It’s development:

It’s location:

The “Republic”:

Pax Romana:

Contributions to our Society

Literature:

Engineering:

• Architecture:

• Roads:

• Arch:

• Aqueducts:

Laws:

Latin language:

VII. How Empires Fall Apart

The Han Dynasty

The Roman Empire

VIII. Essential Questions

1. What does it mean to call a civilization classical ?

2. How did geography cause the rise of city-states in Greece?

3. Generally, what was the status of women and slaves in classical civilizations?

4. How are contemporary democratic governments rooted in classical civilizations?

Unit 4

Belief Systems

Unit 4 - Belief Systems

Religion Social Philosophy

Hinduism

Animism

Buddhism

Shintoism

Islam

Judaism

Chinese

Philosophies Christianity

(Taoism – Confucianism)

Judaism

Christianity Islam

Buddhism

I. Map of World Belief Systems

II. Timeline of World Belief Systems

III. Important Terms

Religion:

Social Philosophy:

IV. Main Beliefs

V. Expansion of Religions

• Buddhism

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Islam

VI. Essential Elements of Selected Belief Systems

VII. Essential Questions

1. What concept – important to Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism – has become an important element of Chinese culture?

2. What do the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have in common?

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3. What are the various methods that were used to spread religions to other lands?

4. What are 4 of the main principles of Confucianism?

Unit 5

Important Empires I

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Unit 5 - Important Empires I

I. Map - Important Empires I

II. Timeline of Important Empires I

III. Gupta Empire

India’s “Golden Age”:

golden age:

IV. Tang Dynasty

Influence on Japan and Korea:

Silk Road:

Contributions to our Society

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V. Byzantine Empire

Ties to the Roman Empire

How it was created:

Impact on Russia:

• Religion:

• Trade:

Contributions to our Society

• Justinian’s Code:

• Art and Architecture:

• Preservers of Greek and Roman culture:

VI. Muslim Empire

How it Spread

• Origins:

• Growth:

• Battle of Tours:

Golden Age:

Contributions to our Society

mathematics: astronomy:

medicine: Islamic Law:

architecture: banking:

Preservers of Greek and Roman culture:

VII. Essential Questions

1. What would be the most influential contributions from these Empires?

2. Why did the Muslim Empire become the most influential on European culture?

Unit 6

The Middle Ages

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Unit 6 - The Middle Ages

I. Europe during the Middle Ages

II. Timeline of the Middle Ages

II. The Dark Ages

Dark Ages: Medieval:

Barbarian Tribes:

Effects of the “Fall of Rome” on Western Europe:

Conditions in Europe during the Dark Ages period:

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The Exception: The Frankish Kingdom under Charlemagne

IV. Feudalism

Feudalism:

How it worked:

manor: manorialism:

Lord: Vassal:

Serf: Knights:

Chivalry:

Why Feudalism is considered to be…..

• A political system:

• A social system:

• An economic system:

V. The Role of the Roman Catholic Church

As an organizing force

Only organized institution in Europe: Influence on the people:

Education (Monastic System): The Structure of the Church:

Influence on Art and Architecture

• Gothic architecture:

• Cathedrals:

• The use of art in the Church:

Important Church Terms

• Heresy:

• Excommunication:

VI. The Crusades

The Crusades:

Causes:

Impact of the Crusades:

• On learning:

• On trade:

• Overall impact on Europe:

Important Persons during the Crusades

• Pope Urban II:

• Richard the Lion-Hearted:

• Saladin:

VII. Important Events

Battle of Hastings

• When:

• What it was:

• Why it was important:

The Hundred Years War

• What it was:

• When:

• Why:

• Effects on European culture:

The Plague

• What it was:

• When:

• How it spread:

• Impact on Europe:

Socially:

Economically:

Politically:

VIII. Essential Questions

1. What was the effect of the fall of the Roman Empire on Western Europe?

2. What was the role of Feudalism in ending the conditions in Europe that existed during the Dark Ages?

3. What was the importance of the Church on the daily life in Medieval Europe?

4. How did the Crusades help bring about the end of Feudalism and the beginning of the Renaissance?

Unit 7

The Renaissance

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Unit 7 - The Renaissance

Commerce

Effects of the Crusades

Middle Class

Rise of Markets End of Feudalism

Rise of New Towns

Old Greek and Roman Learning New Asian Ideas

(from Muslims, Chinese, Indians)

Why Italy?

Humanism

In Art In Literature

I. Map of Renaissance Europe

II. Timeline of the Renaissance

Renaissance:

III. The Rise of Capitalism

Effects of the Crusades on the Economy

• New Markets and Towns:

• End of Feudalism:

The Commercial Revolution

• Commercial Revolution:

• Market Economy:

• Capitalism:

• Rise of a Middle Class:

• Guilds:

“International” Trade

• Hanseatic League:

• Italian City-States:

IV. Humanism and a Rebirth of Learning in Europe

Renewed interest in Learning

• Greek and Roman Learning:

• Asian Learning:

• Monastic System:

Why the Renaissance began in Italy

• Italy’s great ___________________ Led them to become great ________________

• _____________________________ Led to great __________________________

• _____________________________ Led to many _________________________

• _____________________________ Led to great _________________________

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Humanism

• humanism:

• secular:

Humanism in Art

How Art became humanistic:

perspective:

• Leonardo da Vinci:

• Michelangelo:

Humanism in Literature

How Literature became humanistic:

vernacular:

• Dante:

• Cervantes:

• Shakespeare:

Renaissance Technology

The Printing Press:

V. Essential Questions

1. What was the relationship between the rise of capitalism and the decline of Feudalism?

2. What impact did capitalism have on the Renaissance?

3. How did Renaissance thinking differ from Medieval thinking?

Unit 8

Important Empires II

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Important Empires II

I. Map

World Empires of the Middle Ages

II. Timeline

III. Tokugawa Shogunate (Empire)

Effects of Geography

• Island location:

• Homogeneous:

• Mountains:

• Earthquakes and Volcanoes:

Feudalism

• Feudal Society:

• Shogun:

• Samurai:

• bushido:

Tokugawa Shogunate:

Policy of Isolationism:

IV. Mongol Empire

• Origins:

• Genghis Khan:

• Kublai Khan:

• Russia:

• Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta:

MING DYNASTY

• Origins:

• Ethnocentrism:

V. West African Empires

• Sahara Trade Routes:

• Arab Traders:

• Products traded:

• Arab cultural contributions:

• Mansa Musa:

• Oral Tradition:

VI. Empires of Meso-America

Meso-America:

• Maya:

• Aztec:

• Inca:

Their significance:

Advanced developments:

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VII. Ottoman Empire

• Origin:

• Fall of Constantinople:

• Suliman I:

Impact on European trade:

VIII. Essential Questions

1. How did Japan’s geographic location relate to its policy of isolation?

2. What are the similarities and differences between Japanese and European Feudalism?

3. How did the Ottoman Empire’s geographic location interfere with European trade with the Eastern cultures?

4. Why were the Maya, Aztec, and Inca considered to be advanced cultures?

Unit 9

Global Exploration

Global Exploration

I. Map World Exploration

II. Timeline of Global Exploration

III. Chinese Exploration

• Zheng He:

• Results:

IV. European Exploration

Reasons why they began exploration:

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New Technologies:

• Chinese origin:

• Muslim origin:

• European origin:

Significant European Explorers

• Vasco de Gama:

• Ferdinand Magellan:

• Christopher Columbus:

Imperialism

• Imperialism:

• Colonialism:

Triangle Trade

Slave Trade:

Middle Passage:

Columbian Exchange:

Mercantilism:

IV. Essential Questions

1. How were the goals and accomplishments of the Chinese and European explorers different?

2. What were the negative results of European conquest of Latin America and Africa?

3. What were the positive aspects of European conquest?

Unit 10

The Reformation

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The Reformation

I. Map of the Reformation

II. Timeline of the Reformation

III. The Reformation

• Reformation:

• Martin Luther:

• How the Reformation began:

• Protestant:

• John Calvin:

IV. Counter-Reformation

• Counter-Reformation:

• Council of Trent:

• St. Ignatius Loyola:

V. Effects of the Reformation

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VI. Essential Questions

1. How did the Reformation change the Roman Catholic Church’s leadership role in Europe?

Unit 11

Absolutism

Absolutism

I. Timeline of Absolutism

II. Important Concepts of Absolutism

• Monarchy:

• Divine Right:

• Absolutism:

• Machiavelli:

• Thomas Hobbes:

III. Famous Absolute Rulers

IV. England: A Case Study

Step 1: Magna Carta

• What happened:

• Result:

Step 2: The English Civil War

• What happened:

• Who won:

• Result:

Step 3: The “Restoration”

• What happened:

• Result:

Step 4: The Glorious Revolution

• What happened:

• Result:

Today:

V. Essential Questions

1. How did the rule of absolute monarchs in the 16th and 17th centuries reflect the ideas expressed in Machiavelli’s book The Prince and in the writings of Thomas Hobbes?

Unit 12

The Age of Revolution

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The Age of Revolution

I. Map of Political Revolutions

II. Timeline for the Age of Reason

Science

Politics

II. The Scientific Revolution

Scientific Revolution:

Age of Reason:

• Scientific Method:

• Geocentric Theory:

• Heliocentric Theory:

III. The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment:

Enlightenment Writers and Thinkers

Enlightened Despots

Enlightened Despot:

• Maria Theresa:

• Joseph II:

• Catherine the Great:

IV. Impact of the Enlightenment

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Political Revolutions:

The 3 Political Revolutions we will study about:

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V. American Revolution

When: Where: Goal:

How the Enlightenment influenced the American Patriots:

• The Declaration of Independence:

• The U.S. Constitution:

Impact the American Revolution had on other cultures:

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VI. French Revolution

When: Where: Goal:

Causes

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Important concepts of the French Revolution

• Bastille:

• Estates-General:

• Declaration of the Rights of Man:

• Radicals:

(Jacobins)

• Reign of Terror:

• The Directory:

VI. Revolutions in Latin America

When: Where: Goal:

Causes

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Simone Bolivar:

Results of the Revolutions in Latin America

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V. Essential Questions

1. How did the Scientific Revolution help prepare the way for the Enlightenment?

2. How did Europeans try to apply the ideas of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

to society?

3. Why was the American Revolution an important turning point in global history?

4. What changes in political thinking were brought about by the French Revolution?

5. Compare and contrast the short term and long term results of these political revolutions:

Short Term Long Term

• American:

• French:

• Latin American:

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Latitude and Longitude

PHYSICAL EARTH

Regions

Continents

Physical Features

Feature How it affects a culture Examples

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Cultural Diffusion

Cultural Diversity

Culture

The 8 Elements of a Culture

Chronological Time

Time Management

Historical Chronology

Sequence of the Global History Course

Pre-Historic Man

N e o l i t h i c R e v o l u t i o n

Define

Results

Things found in an organized society

(a civilization !)

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Elements of a Civilization

Early Civilizations

Locations

Contributions

River Valley Civilization Important things to know

Classical Civilizations

Define

Map

Timeline

Maurya (India)

Han (China)

Greece

Rome

The Fall of Empires

Type of Government Type of Society Other Information

Athens

Sparta

Counter-Reformation

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Belief Systems

Definitions

Map

Expansion of…

Beliefs of…

System Place of Holy Text Main Belief(s) How the belief affected the culture

Origin (book)

Animism

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Shintoism

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Hinduism

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Buddhism

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Taoism

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Confucianism

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Judaism

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Christianity

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Islam

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Hinduism - Important Terms

Reincarnation: Karma:

Dharma: Caste System:

Buddhism - “Four Noble Truths”

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Confucianism - “5 Relationships”

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Islam - “Five Pillars of Faith”

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Important Empires I

Map

Timeline

Tang Dynasty

Gupta Empire

Byzantine Empire

Muslim Empire

Contributions to our Society

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How the Byzantine Empire compared with the Roman Empire

Capital Religion Language Other Information

Roman

Byzantine

Reasons why the Empire lasted so long

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The Middle Ages

Map

Timeline

The Dark Ages

Role of the Roman Catholic Church

Feudalism

Some Important Events

The Crusades

Middle East

Songhai

Mali

Ghana

Africa

Ming

Mongol

China

Tokugawa

Japan

Timeline

Map

Important Empires II

Florence, Italy:

Patrons:

Medici Family:

Rise of Capitalism

Humanism

And a

Rebirth in Learning

The Renaissance

Ottoman Empire

Latin America

Maya

Aztec

Inca

Traditional African Social Identities

Extended Family:

Clan:

Tribe:

GLOBAL EXPLORATION

Map

Timeline

Chinese Exploration

European Exploration

Name Ideas

Great Scientists of the Scientific Revolution

Name What they did: Effect on Society:

Enlightened Despots

Enlightened Writers

The Enlightenment

Scientific Revolution

Age of Reason

Timeline

Essential Questions

Absolute Ruler Where Major Contribution Result of Contribution

Absolute Rulers

The Reaction Against Absolutism

Case Study:

England

Absolutism

Timeline

Important Concepts

Church Problems Luther’s Proposals

Results

Other Reform Leaders

The Reformation

Map

Martin Luther and the Protestants

Timeline

Church Problems

Case Study: Spanish Imperialism

Where:

Conquistadors:

• Hernan Cortes:

• Francisco Pizarro:

Reasons for Spanish Success:

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Ecomienda System:

Roman Catholic Church:

Mixed Culture:

Social Classes:

Peninsulares:

Creoles:

Mestizos:

Mulattoes:

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Map

Latin American

French

American

Political Revolutions

Timeline

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