World History, High School
                                              2019-2020 Tentative Course Outline

Required Text: The Human Story, James C. Davis
Optional Text: World History: The Human Odyssey, Jackson J. Spielvogel, 1999

Objectives
Upon completing this course the student will be able to:

• Describe features of the world's physical and natural environment, and explain how the environment has affected and been affected by historical developments.
• Explain large-scale and long-term historical developments of regional, interregional, and global scope.
• Analyze ways in which human groups have come into contact and interacted with one another, including systems of communication, migration, commercial exchange, conquest, and cultural diffusion.
• Assess the significance of key turning points in world history.
• Describe the development and explain the significance of distinctive forms of political, social, and economic organization.
• Identify major discoveries, inventions, and scientific achievements, and assess their impact on society.
• Identify achievements in art, architecture, literature, and philosophy, and assess their impact on society.
• Compare the world we live in today with past eras such as the lower paleolithic, upper paleolithic, neolithic, agrarian, and industrial ages.
• Explain ideals, practices, and historical developments of major belief systems.
• Identify challenges that humans have faced in the ecological, economic, political, and other spheres of life, and explain how they have responded to those challenges.
• Reflect upon choices humans have made in the past and consider how choices made today may affect the future.