9th Grade Curriculum Map Semester 1 (New Visions)

Unit 1 / Unit 2 / Unit 3 / Unit 4 / Unit 5
Historical Thinking / The First Civilizations / Classical Civilizations / Political Powers & Achievements / Social & Cultural Growth & Conflict
~ 14 days / ~ 17 days / ~ 31 days / ~ 19 days / ~ 12 days
Essential Question / Essential Question / Essential Question / Essential Question / Essential Question
How do historians determine what happened in the past? / How did the development of agriculture affect the lives of people in early civilizations and their environment? / How did classical civilizations gain, consolidate, maintain and lose their power? / How did post classical gain, consolidate, maintain and lose their power? / How did increased interconnectedness affect the postclassical world?
Supporting Questions / Supporting Questions / Supporting Questions / Supporting Questions / Supporting Questions
1. What is history?
2. What sources do historians use to learn about the past?
3. How do historians read sources?
4. How and why do historians corroborate their sources?
5. What is context? How do historians use it to understand and write about the past?
6. How do historians construct arguments? / Geographic Context
1. How do geographers describe the location of places on Earth relative to other locations and geographic features? What tools do geographers use to read maps?
Paleolithic Era
2. What was life like during the Paleolithic Era?
Neolithic Revolution
3. What was the Neolithic Revolution? What was life like after the Neolithic Revolution?
4. How did the Neolithic Revolution change economic systems, social structures and political systems?
Early River Valley Civilizations
5. Where were early river valley civilizations located and how interconnected were they to other regions?
6. How did inhabitants of Early River Valley Civilizations innovate to meet their needs?
7. What do primary sources reveal about the structure of Mesopotamian society in the Babylonian empire?
Judaism
8. How did Judaism form? What are the major beliefs of Judaism? How does Judaism impact the lives of Jewish people? How did Judaism spread?
Test Prep
9. How will I have to show what I know on the Global History and Geography Regents Exam? / Geographic Context
1. Where were classical civilizations located and how interconnected were they to other regions through trade routes?
India: Gupta, Maurya, Hinduism & Buddhism
2. What was the geographic and historical context for the rise of classical civilizations in India?
3. How did Hinduism form? What are the major beliefs of Hinduism? How does Hinduism impact the lives of Hindus?
4. How did Buddhism form? What are the major beliefs of Buddhism? How does Buddhism impact the lives of Buddhists? How did Buddhism spread?
5. How did the Mauryan Empire use their beliefs systems and philosophical ideas to gain, consolidate, and maintain power?
6. What led to the Gupta Golden Age? How did the Gupta Golden Age impact India, other regions, and later periods in history?
China: Confucianism, Han and Qin
7. What was the geographic and historical context for the rise of classical civilizations in China?
8. How did Confucianism form? What are the major beliefs of Confucianism? How does Confucianism impact the lives of Confucians? How did Confucianism spread?
9. How did the Qin dynasty gain, consolidate, and maintain power?
10. What led to the Han Golden Age? How did the Han Golden Age impact China, other regions, and later periods in history?
Europe: Greece, Rome, & Christianity
11. What was the geographic and historical context for the rise of classical civilizations in Greece?
12. What led to a the Golden Age of Athens? How did the Golden Age of Athens impact Grece, other regions, and later periods in history?
13. What were the effects of Alexander the Great’s empire?
14. What was the geographic and historical context for the rise of classical civilizations in Rome?
15. How did Rome gain, consolidate, and maintain power?
16. What led to the Roman Golden Age, PaxRomana? How did PaxRomana impact Rome, other regions, and later periods in history?
17. How did Christianity form? What are the major beliefs of Christianity? How does Christianity impact the lives of Christians? How did Christianity spread?
18. How and why did the Roman Empire lose power? / Geographic Context
1. Where were Eastern and Western Europe located and how interconnected were they to other regions?
Dark Ages, Feudalism, Byzantine Empire
2. How did the fall of Rome impact Western and Eastern Europe?
Tang and Song
3. How did the Tang and Song Golden Ages impact China, surrounding regions, and later periods in history?
Rise & Spread of Islam, Islamic Caliphates
4. How did Islam form? What are the major beliefs of Islam? How does Islam impact the lives of Islam? How did Islam spread?
5. Where were Islamic Caliphates located and how interconnected were they to other regions?
6. How did Islamic Caliphates gain, consolidate, and maintain power?
7. What leads to a golden age? How did golden ages impact the classical civilizations, other regions, and later periods in history?
8. What do primary source documents about the travels of Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta reveal about the post-classical Islamic world?
9. Where were the Mongol empires located and how interconnected were they to other regions?
10. How did the Mongols to gain, consolidate, maintain, and lose power? / Geographic Context
1. How interconnected was the world during the 14th century?
Crusades
2. What was the relationship between Muslims and Christians in the 11th century?
3. According to different perspectives, why did Muslims and Christians fight one another during the Crusades?
4. How did the Crusades impact the world?
5. How did the Black Death spread?
Black Death
6. What were the social, political, and economic effects of the Black Death?
Assessment Opportunities
End of Unit:
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Semester 2

Unit 6 / Unit 7 / Unit 8 / Unit 9
Ottomans and Ming Pre-1600 / Transformation of W. Europe & Russia / Africa and the Americas Pre-1600 / Interactions and Disruptions
~ 11 days / ~ 18 days / ~ 14 days / ~ 33 days
Essential Question / Essential Question / Essential Question / Essential Question
How did the Ottoman Empire and Ming Dynasty gain, consolidate and maintain their power? / How did new ideas and innovation affect Western Europe and Russia starting in the 15th century? / How did pre-1600s civilizations in Africa and the Americas gain, consolidate and maintain power? / How did increased interconnectedness affect the world after the Encounter?
Supporting Questions / Supporting Questions / Supporting Questions / Supporting Questions
Ottoman Empire & Suleiman the Magnificent
1. Where was the Ottoman Empire and how interconnected was it to other regions?
2. What was the ethnic and religious composition of the Ottoman Empire?
3. How did Suleiman the Magnificent impact the growth of the Ottoman Empire?
4. How did the ethnic and religious composition of the Ottoman Empire impact its political and societal organizations?
5. How did the Ottoman Empire interact with Europeans?
Ming Dynasty
6. Where was the Ming Dynasty and how interconnected was it to other regions?
7. What was the ethnic and religious compositions of the Ming Dynasty?
8. How did the ethnic and religious composition of the Ming Dynasty impact its political and societal organizations?
9. How did the Ming Dynasty interact with European traders and Christian missionaries? / Geographic Context
1. Where were the a major political powers in the Mediterranean world in the 15th century? How interconnected were they to one another and other regions?
Renaissance
2. What caused the Renaissance? How did Islamic Caliphates impact the development and diffusion of new ideas and innovations of the Renaissance?
3. What evidence is there of a return to Greco-Roman ideas in the Renaissance?
4. What new technologies emerged during the Renaissance? What impact did these technologies have?
5. What new political ideas emerged during the Renaissance? What impact did these new political ideas have?
Protestant Reformation
6. Where were the major political powers in Europe before the Protestant Reformation? How interconnected were they to one another and other regions?
7. What religious ideas were most dominant in Europe before the Protestant Reformation?
8. What religious ideas were most dominant in Europe before the Protestant Reformation?
Scientific Revolution
9. Which scientific ideas were most prevalent in Europe before the Scientific Revolution?
10. What was the Scientific Revolution? How did it impact Europe?
Absolutism
11. What is absolutism? How did absolute monarchs gain, consolidate, and maintain power?
12. How did Louis XIV use absolutism to rule France?
13. How did Peter the Great use absolutism to rule Russia? / Geographic Context
1. Where were the pre-1600 civilizations in the Africa located and how interconnected were they to other regions?
Pre-1600s Africa (Songhai Empire and East African Trading Kingdoms)
2. How did pre-1600 civilizations in Africa innovate to meet their needs?
3. What economic, social, political, and religious structures shaped pre-1600 civilization in Africa?
4. What economic, social, political, and religious structures shaped pre-1600 civilization in Africa?
5. How did the achievements of Songhai impact their society, other regions, and later periods in history?
Pre-1600s Americas (Maya, Inca, Aztec)
6. Where were the pre-1600 civilizations in the Americas located and how interconnected were they to other regions?
7. How did the Inca innovate to meet their needs?
8. How did the Inca gain, consolidate, and maintain power?
9. How did the Aztecs innovate to meet their needs?
10. How did the Aztec gain, consolidate, and maintain power? / Geographic Context
1. How interconnected was the world before the Age of Exploration?
Causes and Motives for Exploration
2. What led to the Age of Exploration?
Effects of the Encounter, Conquest, and Columbian Exchange,
3. What demographic, economic, and environmental effects did the Encounter, the Spanish Conquest and the Columbian Exchange have on the Eastern and Western hemispheres?
Causes and Effects of Transatlantic Slave Trade
4. What led to the development of the transatlantic slave trade? How did the transatlantic slave trade impact the enslaved and the societies they came from?
Effects of Spanish Colonization
5. What social, political, and economic effects did Spanish colonization have on people living in the Americas?
6. What are your perspectives of the essential questions in Global History, now?
Assessment Opportunities
End of Unit:
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Multiple Times During Unit:
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Last Updated: 8/18/2016