Global Studies Curriculum

 

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Link to last regents exams in Regent Review for Global Studies

From http://www.nysedregents.org

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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)

 

 

• 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