Syllabus
Auburn Junior High School - 9th Grade - World
History
The Emergence of a Global
Age: 1500-1650
- Aspects of the Renaissance
culture in Italy and Northern Europe
- Geographic, economic, political,
and cultural aspects of European exploration and colonization
- Causes of the Protestant
Reformation and its significance
- Relationship between physical
geography and cultural development in India, Africa, Japan, and China in the
early global age
- Rise of absolutism and
constitutionalism and their impact on Europe
The Age of Revolutions:
1650-1815
- Achievements and influences of
the Scientific Revolution
- Significant ideas of the
Enlightenment
- French Revolution and its impact
on transformations is Europe
- Revolutions in Latin America
- Industrial Revolution and its
impact
The Age of Isms: 1815-1914
- Influence of urbanization in the
19th century
- Search for political democracy
and social justice
- European nationalism and Western
imperialism as forces of global transformation
- Resistance to European
Imperialism
The Era of Global
War: 1914-1945
- Causes, course, and consequences
of WWI
- Rise of Communism
- Challenges of the post WWI period
- Rise of militarist and
totalitarian states
- Cause, course, and consequences
of WWII
The World: 1945-Present
- Origins and results of the Cold
War
- Postwar reconstruction and the
end of colonial empires
- Effects of the Cold War in
Europe, Asia, and Latin America
- Collapse of the Soviet empire and
the establishment of the “New World Order”
- Persistence of nationalism,
militarism, and civil war throughout the world
- World prospects for political
democracy and social justice
- New boundaries and problems in
science, technology, economics, and culture
