Link to last regents exams in Regent Review for Global Studies
From http://www.nysedregents.org
So much to teach and learn, so little time to make it happen.
The Following content that will be tested for on the Regents
(Only Unit 1 has been expanded for detail)
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Unit One Ancient World - Civilizations and Religions (4000 BC to 500 AD)
- Early peoples
- Human and Physical Geography
- Hunters and gatehres - nomadic groups
- Relationship to the environment
- Migration of early human populations
- Out of Africa
- Other Theories
- Early government
- Purposes
- Decision making
- Move toward more complex government systems
- Noelithic Revolution and early river civilizations
- Compare and contrast (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, and Yellow River)
- Human and physical geography of early river civilizations
- Traditional Economics
- Political Systems
- Social Structures and urbanization
- Contributions
- Writing Systems
- Belief Systems
- Early technology - irrigation,k tools, weapons
- Architecture
- Legal Systems - Code of Hammurabi
Identify demographic patterns of early civilizations and movement of people- Bantur migration (500BC - 1500 AD)
- Human and physical geography
- Casues of migration
- Impact on other areas of Africa
- Classical civilizations
- Chinese ciliviations
- Human and physical geography
- Chinese contributions (engineering, tools, writing, silk)
- Dynastic cycles
- Mandate of Heaven
- Greek civilization
- Human and Physical Geography
- The rise of city-states athens/sparta
- Contributions: art, architecture, philosphy, science - Plato, Socrates, Aristotle
- Growth of democracy in Athens versus the Spartan political system
- Alexander the Great and Hellenisitic culture - cultural diffusion
- Roman republic
- HUman and physical geography
- Contributions
- Indian (Maurya Empire)
- Human and physical geography (monsoons)
- Contributions - government systems
- Rise of agrarian civilizations in Mesoamerica (200 BC to 900 AD)
- Human and physical contributions(mathematics, astronomy, science and arts, architecture and technology)
- Role of maize
- Religion
- The status and role of women in classical civilizations
- The growth of global trade routes in classical civilizations
- Pheonecian trade routes
- Silk Road
- Maritime and overland trade routes
- Linking Africa and Eurasia
- Linking China, Korea and Japan
- The rise and fall of great empires
- Han Dynasty
- Human and physical geography
- Factors leading to growth
- Contributions
- Causes of decline
- Role of migrating nomadic groups from Central Asia
- Roman Empire
- Human and physical geography
- Factors leading to growth (engineering, empire building, trade
- Contributions
- Causes of decline
- Role of migrating nomadic groups from Central Asia
- Pax Romana
- The emergence and spread of belief systems
- Place of orignin of major beliefs
- Animism - African
- Hiinduism
- Buddhism
- Chinese Philosophies
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
- Legalism
- Shintoism
- Jainism
Expansion of Christianity
- Unit Two - Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter (500 to 1200)
- Unit Three - Global Interactions (1200 to 1650)
- Unit Four - The first Global Age (1450 to 1770)
- Unit Five - An Age of Revolution (1750 to 1914)
- Unit Six - A Half Century of Crisis and Achievement (1900 to 1945)
- Unit Seven - The 20th Century Since 1945
- Unit Eight - Global Connections and Interactions
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