Digital Learning Department

This class offers an in-depth, but easily understood, view of the human experience from the earliest civilizations through the Age of Enlightenment. Interactive features allow students to apply their concept mastery through such activities as customizing maps and designing feudal villages. An audio pronunciation guide will assist students? ability to say and remember the names of unfamiliar people and places. Frequent self-check practice questions and homework assignments within the lessons prepare students for the accompanying submissions, while numerous brief - and extended-writing opportunities encourage students to reflect on new knowledge and to expand their critical thinking skills.



Class Objectives

1) Understand the biological and cultural processes that gave rise to the earliest human communities.

2) Understand the processes that led to the emergence of agricultural societies around the world.

3) Understand the major characteristics of civilization and how civilizations emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus valley.

4) Understand how agrarian societies spread and new states emerged in the third and second millennia BCE.

5) Understand the political, social, and cultural consequences of population movements and militarization in Eurasia in the second millennium BCE.

6) Understand the major trends in Eurasia and Africa from 4000 to 1000 BCE.

7) Understand innovation and change from 1000-600 BCE: horses, ships, iron, and monotheistic faith.

8) Understand the emergence of Aegean civilization and how interrelations developed among peoples of the eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia, 600-200 BCE.

9) Understand how major religions and large-scale empires arose in the Mediterranean basin, China, and India, 500 BCE-300 CE.

10) Understand the development of early agrarian civilizations in Mesoamerica.

11) Understand major global trends from 1000 BCE-300 CE.

12) Understand imperial crises and their aftermath, 300-700 CE.

13) Understand causes and consequences of the rise of Islamic civilization in the 7th-10th centuries.

14) Understand major developments in East Asia in the era of the Tang dynasty, 600-900 CE.

15) Understand the search for political, social, and cultural redefinition in Europe, 500-1000 CE.

16) Understand the development of agricultural societies and new states in tropical Africa and Oceania.

17) Understand the rise of centers of civilization in Mesoamerica and Andean South America in the first millennium CE.

18) Understand major global trends from 300-1000 CE.

19) Understand the maturing of an interregional system of communication, trade, and cultural exchange in an era of Chinese economic power and Islamic expansion.

20) Understand the redefining of European society and culture, 1000-1300 CE.

21) Understand the rise of the Mongol empire and its consequences for Eurasian peoples, 1200-1350.

22) Understand the growth of states, towns, and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa between the 11th and 15th centuries.

23) Understand patterns of crisis and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1450.

24) Understand the expansion of states and civilizations in the Americas, 1000-1500.

25) Understand major global trends from 1000-1500 CE.

26) Understand how the transoceanic interlinking of all major regions of the world from 1450 to 1600 led to global transformations.

27) Understand how European society experienced political, economic, and cultural transformations in an age of global intercommunication, 1450-1750.

28) Understand how large territorial empires dominated much of Eurasia between the 16th and 18th centuries.

29) Understand economic, political, and cultural interrelations among peoples of Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1500-1750.

30) Understand transformations in Asian societies in the era of European expansion.

31) Understand major global trends from 1450 to 1770.