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Global History and Geography Core Curriculum
NYS Global Studies
The Global History and Geography Core Curriculum is based on the five social studies standards: History of the United States and New York; World History; Geography; Economics; and Civics, Citizenship, and Government. It is designed to help students explore significant world-scale history cases of change.
It requires students to ask probing questions and make global connections and/or linkages.
For each historical era, students will investigate global connections and linkages:
This core curriculum enables students to investigate issues and themes from multiple perspectives that lead to in-depth understanding.
Visit the Turning Points component of this online resource. The Turning Points are linked directly to various units throughout this online resource.
Visit the Audio Glossary component of this online resource. The glossary can be used in many of the units where pronunciation of certain vocabulary words, titles, proper names, cities, countries and events may be difficult.
It requires students to ask probing questions and make global connections and/or linkages.
For each historical era, students will investigate global connections and linkages:
- Cultural Diffusion
- Belief System
- Migration
- Trade
- Multi-regional Empires
- Conflict
This core curriculum enables students to investigate issues and themes from multiple perspectives that lead to in-depth understanding.
Visit the Turning Points component of this online resource. The Turning Points are linked directly to various units throughout this online resource.
Visit the Audio Glossary component of this online resource. The glossary can be used in many of the units where pronunciation of certain vocabulary words, titles, proper names, cities, countries and events may be difficult.
Course Methodology
Unit One: Ancient World Civilizations and Religions (4000 BC - 500 AD)
This first unit explores a broad period of time roughly from 4000 BC to 500 AD by investigating early peoples; human migrations; the Neolithic Revolution; early river civilizations; African and Eurasian classical civilizations; the rise and fall of great empires, and the emergence and spread of the major global belief systems. It is a time that shaped all subsequent periods. In this unit, students are asked to investigate the meaning and characteristics of culture. They discover the enduring interplay between agrarian civilizations and nomadic cultures. Students are also introduced to human and physical geography and the extent to which humans can control their environment.
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Unit Two: Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter (500 - 1200)
The period between 500 - 1200 AD is marked by population growth and urbanization. The ideas of Chinese philosophers, and the beliefs of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity extended beyond their places of origin. Informal trading networks were established, moving people, goods, and technologies throughout Eurasia and Africa. Islam spread widely throughout Eurasia and Africa. The Gupta, Byzantine, Chinese, and Islamic cultures flourished. In this period, Christian Europe played a marginal role in terms of the history of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Unit Three: Global Interactions (1200 - 1650)
The Japanese, Mongol, West African, and European civilizations flowered in this era, establishing legacies whose impacts are felt to this day. Lasting institutions that support global trade, cultural exchanges, and encounters were developed in this period. During this era, the Mongols established the largest empire the world had ever seen. The Plague, associated with Mongol hegemony, devastated societies in China, the Islamic world, and Europe. Europe experienced a shattering shift in its worldview that brought about the Renaissance and Reformation. Powerful new European states challenged Islamic domination of the Mediterranean world.
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Unit Four: The First Global Age (1450 - 1770)
During this first global age, the Ming, Ottoman, and Mughal empires experienced cultural renaissances that paralleled the earlier European Renaissance. A complex global economy arose that shaped today’s modern world. During this time period the economic and cultural interactions among the peoples of Afro-Eurasia expanded rapidly. Global urbanization intensified. Nations responded to the absolutism of Akbar, Suleiman the Magnificent, Peter the Great, Louis XIV, and Philip II in a variety of ways. In some instances, demands for internal reform occurred and in other instances those absolute rulers were seen by their neighbors as threats. Social and political institutions emerged in Europe that became the foundation of the American political system. The power and influence of European nations expanded well beyond the boundaries of their region.
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Unit Five: An Age of Revolution (1750 - 1914)
The Age of Revolution represents an era that unleashed global forces that continue to play themselves out in the 21st century. It is an epoch of “-isms”: nationalism; industrialism, mercantilism, capitalism, liberalism, socialism, communism, imperialism, and colonialism. It reflected an age of political revolutions and reaction against revolutionary ideas. It was a period of economic and social revolutions, which was marked by dramatic changes in the structure of social classes and changes in the traditional roles of men, women and children. It heralded the modern age and raised a series of essential questions. At the beginning of the 20th century, the nations of the west held positions of dominance and hegemony that few, if any, nations ever achieved in world history. During this period, Japan and the United States became major players on the world stage.
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Unit Six: A Half Century of Crisis and Achievement (1900-1945)
The study of the first half of the 20th century explores the two world wars; revolution and change in Russia; the rise of democracy and tyranny; the women's suffrage movement; the expansion of global militarism and imperialism; the colonial response to imperialism; and the Great Depression. The problems and paradoxes that were faced during this era shaped the forces that are moving our contemporary world.
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Unit Seven: The 20th Century Since 1945
This unit rounds out the political and economic events of the 20th century and provides students with opportunities to explore the Cold War balance of power politics. It focuses on the occupation of Germany and Japan, the emergence of the Superpowers, and surrogate superpower rivalries. It explores the economic issues of the Cold War and the Post-Cold War era, the Communist Revolution, and the collapse of European imperialism. This unit encourages students to look at global issues and paradoxes from multiple global perspectives.
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Unit Eight:Global Connections and Interactions
This unit is a contemporary unit, exploring such 21st century global issues as:
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This first unit explores a broad period of time roughly from 4000 BC to 500 AD by investigating early peoples; human migrations; the Neolithic Revolution; early river civilizations; African and Eurasian classical civilizations; the rise and fall of great empires, and the emergence and spread of the major global belief systems. It is a time that shaped all subsequent periods. In this unit, students are asked to investigate the meaning and characteristics of culture. They discover the enduring interplay between agrarian civilizations and nomadic cultures. Students are also introduced to human and physical geography and the extent to which humans can control their environment.
For more information click here
Unit Two: Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter (500 - 1200)
The period between 500 - 1200 AD is marked by population growth and urbanization. The ideas of Chinese philosophers, and the beliefs of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity extended beyond their places of origin. Informal trading networks were established, moving people, goods, and technologies throughout Eurasia and Africa. Islam spread widely throughout Eurasia and Africa. The Gupta, Byzantine, Chinese, and Islamic cultures flourished. In this period, Christian Europe played a marginal role in terms of the history of the Eastern Hemisphere.
For more information click here
Unit Three: Global Interactions (1200 - 1650)
The Japanese, Mongol, West African, and European civilizations flowered in this era, establishing legacies whose impacts are felt to this day. Lasting institutions that support global trade, cultural exchanges, and encounters were developed in this period. During this era, the Mongols established the largest empire the world had ever seen. The Plague, associated with Mongol hegemony, devastated societies in China, the Islamic world, and Europe. Europe experienced a shattering shift in its worldview that brought about the Renaissance and Reformation. Powerful new European states challenged Islamic domination of the Mediterranean world.
For more information click here
Unit Four: The First Global Age (1450 - 1770)
During this first global age, the Ming, Ottoman, and Mughal empires experienced cultural renaissances that paralleled the earlier European Renaissance. A complex global economy arose that shaped today’s modern world. During this time period the economic and cultural interactions among the peoples of Afro-Eurasia expanded rapidly. Global urbanization intensified. Nations responded to the absolutism of Akbar, Suleiman the Magnificent, Peter the Great, Louis XIV, and Philip II in a variety of ways. In some instances, demands for internal reform occurred and in other instances those absolute rulers were seen by their neighbors as threats. Social and political institutions emerged in Europe that became the foundation of the American political system. The power and influence of European nations expanded well beyond the boundaries of their region.
For more information click here
Unit Five: An Age of Revolution (1750 - 1914)
The Age of Revolution represents an era that unleashed global forces that continue to play themselves out in the 21st century. It is an epoch of “-isms”: nationalism; industrialism, mercantilism, capitalism, liberalism, socialism, communism, imperialism, and colonialism. It reflected an age of political revolutions and reaction against revolutionary ideas. It was a period of economic and social revolutions, which was marked by dramatic changes in the structure of social classes and changes in the traditional roles of men, women and children. It heralded the modern age and raised a series of essential questions. At the beginning of the 20th century, the nations of the west held positions of dominance and hegemony that few, if any, nations ever achieved in world history. During this period, Japan and the United States became major players on the world stage.
For more information click here
Unit Six: A Half Century of Crisis and Achievement (1900-1945)
The study of the first half of the 20th century explores the two world wars; revolution and change in Russia; the rise of democracy and tyranny; the women's suffrage movement; the expansion of global militarism and imperialism; the colonial response to imperialism; and the Great Depression. The problems and paradoxes that were faced during this era shaped the forces that are moving our contemporary world.
For more information click here
Unit Seven: The 20th Century Since 1945
This unit rounds out the political and economic events of the 20th century and provides students with opportunities to explore the Cold War balance of power politics. It focuses on the occupation of Germany and Japan, the emergence of the Superpowers, and surrogate superpower rivalries. It explores the economic issues of the Cold War and the Post-Cold War era, the Communist Revolution, and the collapse of European imperialism. This unit encourages students to look at global issues and paradoxes from multiple global perspectives.
For more information click here
Unit Eight:Global Connections and Interactions
This unit is a contemporary unit, exploring such 21st century global issues as:
- Population pressures World hunger Poverty The migration and movement of people Modernization and development Urbanization Scientific and technological change Ethnic and religious tensions viewed from multiple perspectives The North/South dichotomy
- The environment and sustainability
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