Grades 9-10: Civics Content
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Concepts
- Citizenship
- Decision making
- Human rights
- Imperialism
- Justice
- Nationalism
- Nation State
- Political systems
- Power
- Multi-Regional Empires
- Government
- Constitutions
- Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
- Democracy
- Content Understandings
- Methodology of Global History and Geography
Political Science
- The purposes of government
- Political systems around the world
- Political concepts of power, authority, governance, and law
- Rights and responsibilities of citizenship across time and space
- Critical thinking skills
- Unit One: Ancient World- Civilizations and Religions (4000BC-500AD)
- Greek civilization: rise of city-states, growth of democracy in Athens versus Sparta
- Roman Republic: law (Twelve Tables)
- Indian (Maurya) Empire: government system
- Unit Two: Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter (500-1200)
- Byzantine Empire (330-1453AD): political structure and Justinian Code
- The spread of Islam to Europe, Asia, and Africa: the development of Islamic Law and its impact
- Medieval Europe (500-1400): feudalism
- Unit Three: Global Interactions (1200-1650)
- The rise and impact of European nation-states/decline of feudalism
- Unit Four: The First Global Age (1450-1770)
- The Impact of the Ottoman Empire on the Middle East and Europe: Suleiman I (the Magnificent, the Lawgiver)
- Political Ideologies: global absolutism and divine right theory
- The response to absolutism: the rise of parliamentary democracies in England
- Unit Five: An Age of Revolution (1750-1914)
- The Enlightenment in Europe: writings of Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu; impact of the Enlightenment on nationalism and democracy; the enlightened despots- Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great
- Political revolutions: human and physical geography of revolutions, American Revolution, French Revolution, and Independence movements in Latin America
- Global nationalism: human and physical geography, role in political revolutions, forces for unity and self-determination (e.g., unification of Italy and Germany), Asian and Middle Eastern nationalism, Zionism, Forces leading to conflict (e.g., Balkans, Ottoman Empire)
- Imperialism in India, Africa, China
- Unit Six: A Half Century of Crisis and Achievement (1900-1945)
- Revolution and change in Russia-causes and impacts: Stalin and the rise of a modern totalitarian state
- The Nazi Holocaust: human rights violations
- War crime trials
- Unit Seven: The 20th Century since 1945
- Roles of the United Nations: peace keeping, social and economic programs, contemporary social conditions
- Terrorism
- Chinese Communist Revolution
- Collapse of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union
- Unit Eight: Global Connections and Interactions
- Status of women and children: political issues, e.g., participation in the political process