Global I Curriculum Map
Units of Study/Enduring
Understandings
Curriculum Content/Essential Questions
Terminology
Common Core
Standards
First Marking Period (10 weeks)
Unit 1 - World Geography
Enduring Understanding:
Students will acquire
geographic literacy
Question 1 - What is geography and what
are the 5 themes of Geography?
5 Themes of Geography (location,
place, region, movement,
human/environment interaction)
RH 7, 10
WHST 2, 8
Question 2 - What is cartography?
Map projections
Cartography project
5 Themes of Geography group
presentation
Unit 2 - Early Complex
Societies
Question 1 - Why is the Neolithic
Revolution such a big deal?
Enduring Understanding:
Civilization means
complexity
Question 2 - What do we mean by
civilization (complex societies) and what
does geography have to do with it?
Question 3 - What about civilizations that
aren’t in river valleys?
Question 4 - What are some good
examples of how civilizations develop
differently?
Howells v Diamond reading
Minoan art
Pharoah Facebook
Oracle Eggs
Phoenician alphabet/Mayan number
system
Unit 3 - Belief Systems of
Asia
Question 1 - What is Hinduism and how
has it influenced India?
Enduring Understanding:
Understanding religion is
crucial to understanding
culture and history
Question 2 - How did Buddhism develop
out of Hinduism and where did it spread
to?
Question 3 - What are Confucianism and
Daoism and how have they influenced East
Asia?
Question 4 - What is Shinto and how has it
influenced Japan?
Question 5 - How have Asian religions and
philosophies influenced governments in
Paleolithic, Homo Sapiens,
hunter-gatherers, domestication,
agricultural and pastoral societies.
RH 1, 2
WHST 2, 7, 10
5 characteristics of a civilization,
the river valley civilizations
(Egypt/Nile,
Mesopotamia/Tigris-Euphrates,
China’s Shange Dynasty/Huang
He, Harappan/Indus),
Mesoamerica, Olmec, Maya,
Sahara, Sahel, Aksum, griot,
Law/gov’t (Hammurabi’s Code,
city-state, empire, dynastic cycle,
mandate of heaven), Belief
Systems (Animism, polytheism,
monotheism, oracle bones,
Judaism, Hinduism), Social Class
(Caste System), Record Keeping
(cuneiform, hieroglyphics,
ideographs, pictographs
characters), Cities (Mohenjo
Daro, Harappa, Sumer)
Indo-European Migration,
Aryans, Vedas, caste system, 4
varna, dharma, karma,
reincarnation, Ramayana, Jainism,
Siddharta Gautama, 4 noble
truths, Noble 8-fold path,
enlightenment, nirvana, cultural
diffusion, Kong Fuzi/Confucius, 5
relationships, filial piety, Laozi,
yin and yang, Legalism, animism,
Shinto, kami
RH 8, 9
WHST 1, 7
India and China?
Religions Essay
Casts System stimulation
Unit 4 - Three
Monotheistic Faiths
Question 1 - What are the origins and early
history of Judaism?
Enduring Understanding:
Understanding religion is
crucial to understanding
culture and history
Question 2 - How did Christianity develop
out of Judaism and diffuse throughout the
Roman Empire?
Question 3 - What are the teachings of
Islam and how did it spread?
Question 4 - How are the monotheistic
religions similar and different
Abraham, Moses, monotheism,
prophets, Torah, Talmud, Kings
David and Solomon, Jerusalem,
Israel, Jesus of Nazareth, messiah,
disciple/apostle, Paul of Tarsus,
Constantine, Pope, Jewish
Diaspora, Roman Catholic,
Orthodox, Muhammad, Mecca,
Hajj, Hijra, mosque, the Five
Pillars, Qua’ran, Shari’a, Sunni,
Shi’a, ethic religion, universal
religion
RH 6, 4
WHST 4, 5
Christianity Brochure
Islamic Architecture
Second Marking Period (9 weeks)
Unit 5 - Classical
Civilizations of Eurasia:
Greece, Persia and India
Question 1 - How did geography influence
Greek and Persian civilizations and forms
of government around 600BC.
Enduring Understanding:
Classical civilizations set
the patterns for different
parts of the world
Question 2 - How were the political and
social structure of two Greek city-states,
Athens and Sparta, different?
Question 3 - Why is classical Greece
considered a Golden Age?
Balkan Peninsula, Asia
Minor/Persia, Athens, Sparta,
Aegean Sea, empire, polis,
city-state, tyranny, oligarchy,
democracy, monarchy,
aristocracy, Persian Wars
(marathon!), militarism,
Peloponnesian War, classical,
Pericles, direct democracy,
Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, tragedy,
comedy, Hellenistic, Alexandria
WHST 8. 10
Patrician, plebeian, republic,
dictator, Twelve Tables,
Hannibal, Carthage, Julius Caesar
(44 BC), emperor and empire,
Caesar Augustus, Pax Romana,
Pax Sinica, civil service, Han
Wudi, Silk Roads, Constantine,
Constantinople, plague
Great Wall, “barbarian invasions”,
ethnocentrism
RH 3, 10
RH 5, 9
Question 4 - How did the conquests of
Alexander the Great lead to cultural
diffusion?
Alexander the Great project
“Was Ancient Greece truly democratic?”
Persia news article
Unit 6 - Classical
Civilizations of Eurasia
Question 1. What was the Roman
Republic?
Question 2. How did the Roman
Government change from a republic to an
empire and what were the characteristics of
classical Roman civilization?
Question 3. How was the Han Dynasty of
China a classical civilization and how did
the Silk Roads connect Roman and
Chinese civilizations?
WHST 3, 10
Question 4. What were the factors that led
to the decline of the Roman Empire and
the Han dynasty?
“Was the Roman Republic really a
republic” debate.
Unit 7 - The World of
Islam
Question 1. How did Muhammad establish
an empire as well as a religion?
Question 2. What was the geographic
extent of the Muslim Empire at its height
and what was the role of trade and the hajj
in the expansion of Islam into parts of
Africa?
Question 3. What were the
accomplishments of the Golden Age of
Islam and how did Greek, Indian and
Persian civilizations influence it?
Caliph, caliphate, Umayyads,
Abbasids, Shia, Sunni, Dar Al
Islam, Al-Andalus, Ghana, Mali,
Songhai, East African city-states,
Mansa Musa, religious tolerance,
Indian Ocean Trade (monsoon
system), Gold-Salt/Trans-Sahara
trade, astrolabe, “arabic”
numerals, The Thousand and One
Nights, calligraphy
RH 2, 9
WHST 1, 7
Question 4. How can the extent and
diversity of Dar Al Islam be found in the
travels of Ibn Battuta?
Travels of Ibn Battuta
Islamic Architecture
Third Marking Period
Unit 8 - The Christian
World of Europe
Question 1. What are some characteristics
of the Roman Empire that continued into
the Byzantine Empire?
Question 2. Who are the Vikings and the
Slavs and how did Russia develop from
900 to 1472?
Question 3. What does medieval mean and
what are the characteristics of Medieval
Europe from about 500 to 1500?
Justinian, Constantinople,
Bosporus Strait, Justinian’s Code,
Eastern Orthodox Christianity,
icons, Vikings, Slavs, Moscow,
Czar, medieval, Charlemagne,
feudalism, vassal, serf, manor,
knights, chivalry, sacraments,
clergy, heresy, excommunication,
cathedrals, Crusades, Jerusalem,
The Inquisition, secular, guilds,
bubonic plague, Hundred Years
War.
RH 3, 7
Nomadic pastoralists, clans,
Turks, Mongols, khan, Ghengis
RH 4, 6
WHST 4, 6
Question 4. How did the Roman Catholic
Church regulate medieval society and what
was the purpose of the Crusades?
Question 5. What were the short and long
term political, social and economic effects
of the Crusades on Europe?
The Middle Ages Social Hierarchy role
play
The Bubonic Plague simulation
Unit 9 - Nomadic
Conquerors meet Islam
Question 1. What is the steppe and how
did geography affect the cultures of the
and China:
Turks and Mongols
region?
Question 2. How did Genghis Khan unify
the Mongols and what territory did he and
his successors conquered?
Question 3. What were China’s
accomplishments under the Tang and Song
dynasties and what changes occurred after
the Mongol invasion?
Khan, Khanates, Golden Horde,
Mamluks, Pax Mongolica, tribute,
Neo Confucianism, porcelain,
compass, movable type, Kublai
Khan, Yuan Dynasty, Marco Polo
, Ottoman Empire, conquest of
Constantinople, sultan, Suleyman,
Mughal Empire, Akbar, Taj
Mahal
WHST 8, 10
Humanism, secular, patrons,
Medicis, Machiavelli, vernacular,
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci,
Shakespeare, Italian Renaissance,
Northern Renaissance, Martin
Luther, indulgences, 95 Theses,
Protestant, Henry VIII of
England, Elizabeth I, clergy,
theocracy, John Calvin, Catholic
(counter) Reformation,
Inquisition, Loyola, Jesuits,
printing press,
J. Gutenberg
RH 2, 5
Comparison 4. Compare the two Muslim
empires that emerged after the Mongol
Age.
Unit 10 - European
Renaissance and
Reformation
Question 1.What were the new ideas about
the world that characterized Renaissance
art, architecture and society?
Question 2. What were the religious and
political reasons for the Protestant
Reformation?
Question 3.What were the effects of the
Protestant Reformation on the Roman
Catholic Church and on Europe?
WHST 3, 9
Fourth Marking Period
Unit 11 - Two Worlds
Meet
Question 1. How was the feudalism of
medieval Japan similar to that of Europe
and what were the characteristics of
Tokugawa Japan?
Question 2. What were the characteristics
of the Ming dynasty and the beginnings of
the Qing Dynasty in China and why did
China turn inwards?
Question 3. What were the two great
empires of Latin America before the
arrival of Europeans and how did they
adapt to their geography?
Question 4. What were the motives for and
characteristics of European voyages of
exploration in the late 15th century?
Question 5. What were the economic and
social effects of the interaction of the
peoples of North and South America,
Europe and Africa?
Question 6. Which European nations
established colonies in the Americas and in
Daimyo, shogun, samurai,
Bushido, Kyoto, Edo, Tokugawa
Ieyasu, isolationism, archipelago,
Zheng He, Forbidden City,
Beijing, Manchus, Aztecs, Incas,
Tenochtitlan, chinampas Cuzco,
quipu, compass, astrolabe,
cartography, Prince Henry the
Navigator, Vasco Da Gama,
Treaty of Tordesillas,
mercantilism, Commercial
Revolution, The Encounter/
Columbian Exchange, joint stock
companies, balance-of-trade,
Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella
conquistadors, H. Cortes, F.
Pizarro, encomienda system,
Atlantic Slave Trade, Triangular
trade, Middle Passage,
colonialism
RH 5, 6
WHST 2, 9
what ways did they use their colonies?
Unit 12 - The Age of
Absolutism
Question 1. What is absolutism and how
did England begin to limit the power of
their monarchs?
Question 2: Compare five European
absolute monarchs Philip II of Spain
(589-591), Elizabeth I of England (494),
Louis XIV of France(598-600) and Peter
(609-611)and Catherine (638-639) of
Russia.
Question 3: What does absolutism look
like in places other than Europe?
Autocratic, Mandate of Heaven,
Divine Right of kings,nobility,
Magna Carta, parliament, Spanish
Armada, Versailles, Peace of
Westphalia, “warm water ports”,
YongLo (536-537), Tokugawa
Ieayasu (543-544),
Akbar(517-518), Sulieman
(510-511)
,
RH 1, 7
WHST 6, 8