THE 9 CHRONOLOGICAL ERAS OF WORLD HISTORY



THE 9 CHRONOLOGICAL ERAS OF WORLD HISTORY

GRADE 6

ERA 1 – THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN SOCIETY

● CONCEPTS – region, human environment interaction, civilization, social system, climate change, scarcity, government

● TOPICS – Fertile Crescent, Bronze Age, Stone Age (invention), Ice Age, Land Bridge, migration routes, mummies, Neanderthals, Mongolian migration into Americas, prehistoric man

ERA 2 – EARLY CIVILIZATIONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF PASTORAL PEOPLES – (4000 – 1000 BCE)

● CONCEPTS – civilization, migration, technology, community, trade, government

● TOPICS – Egyptians, Copper and Bronze Age, Otzi the Ice Man, Africa, Asia, China, domestication of plants and animals, hunter-gatherers, trade routes, written language, law – Hammurabi’s Code, Mesopotamia

ERA 3 – CLASSICAL TRADITIONS, MAJOR RELIGIONS, AND GIANT EMPIRES – (1000 BCE – 300 CE)

● CONCEPTS – religion, civilization, society, markets, trade, power, government, imperialism, war

● TOPICS –religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism) and empires (Chinese Dynasties, Roman Empire, Alexander the Great, Mayan, Aztecs, Inca), samurai, feudal Japan, collapse of Rome, Maya, Aztec, Inca, Greeks

ERA 4 – EXPANDING ZONES OF EXCHANGE AND ENCOUNTER – (300 – 1000 CE)

● CONCEPTS – religion, value, social systems, trade, turning points, competition, invasion

● TOPICS –Islamic Expansion, gold/salt trade, Charlemagne, “Dark Ages”, beginnings of feudalism, Norse invasions, establishment of Roman Catholic Church/Orthodox Church. Byzantine Empire

ERA 5 – INTENSIFIED HEMISPHERIC INTERACTIONS – (1000 – 1500 CE)

● CONCEPTS – change, conquest, religion, nation states, population, distribution, political systems

● TOPICS - the Crusades, plagues, India, Mongol invasion, feudalism, establishment of nations, Reformation, Ottoman Empire, Scientific Revolution, Renaissance

GRADE 7

ERA 6 – The EMERGENCE OF THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE – (1450 – 1770)

● CONCEPTS – freedom, conflict/cooperation, exploration, migration, needs/wants

● TOPICS – Reformation, Martin Luther, Discovery of the New World, exploration, African trade, diseases in Europe

ERA 7 – AN AGE OF REVOLUTION – (1750 – 1914)

● CONCEPTS – war. Conflict/cooperation, imperialism, colonialism, values/beliefs, perspective, foreign policy

● TOPICS - British Empire, African Conquest, Slave Trade, Civil War, French Revolution, Taiping Rebellion, Russia, Industrial Revolution, American Revolution, Trail of Tears,

ERA 8 – A HALF CENTURY OF CRISIS AND ACHIEVEMENT – (1900 – 1945)

● CONCEPTS – conflict/cooperation, national identity, competition

● TOPICS - WWI, WWII, Global Economic Struggles, Great Depression, Panama Canal, Holocaust, Communism,

ERA 9 – THE 20th CENTURY SINCE 1945 – (1945 – PRESENT)

● CONCEPTS – resources (scarcity), globalization, perspective

● TOPICS – Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, Terrorism, National Identities, Changes in Technology, social media, International Organization, Personal Finances, NAFTA, OPEC, Cultural Revolution in China, changes in the Arab World, Arab/Israeli conflict, Apartheid, Civil Rights, Killing Fields, European Union, World Trade Organization, Three Gorges Dam, Destruction of Rain Forest, Tiananmen Square, Chernobyl, North Korean aggression, 3 Mile Island, nuclear debate

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