Unit 1 – Geography Review
This unit discusses continents; oceans; latitude; longitude; global address; hemispheres;
climate zones; parts of a map; types of maps: physical, political, historical, and distribution.
Unit 2 – Archaeology
This unit discusses archaeology, the Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age,
the transition to the Neolithic Age, and the Neolithic (New Stone) Age.
Unit 3 – Mesopotamia
This unit discusses timelines, the geography of
Mesopotamia, cuneiform (the first system of writing), government and
polytheism, characteristics of a civilization, and the contributions
made by Mesopotamia, as well as Assyria and Chaldea.
Unit 4 – Egypt and Nubia
This unit discusses the geography of Egypt, its social pyramid, and religious practices in Egypt,
the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms, and contributions made by Egypt. Also
included are Nubia, the defeat of Egypt by Kush, and Meroe.
Unit 5 – Monotheistic Religions
This unit discusses religion, Abraham and the Covenant, Moses and the Israelites, Solomon's
Temple, and Jesus of Nazareth and his parables, teachings, and crucifixion. Further discussed are
Constantine and Paul, Muhammad and the Angel Gabriel, the spread of Islam in Arabia, and
comparing and contrasting Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Unit 6 – Islamic Empires
This unit covers the Muslim Empire, trade, how Islam split, Abbasids, Seljuk Turka, Ottomon, and
Mogul.
Unit 7 – Africa
This unit discusses Africa, religious practices in Africa, the West African Empires, supply and
demand, the gold and salt trades, the gold and salt trade today, and West Africa today.
Unit 8 – India
This unit discusses the geography of India, monsoons, Hinduism, including Brahman
and multiple gods as well as Dharma, Karma, and Samsara. Also discussed are the caste system,
the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Eightfold Path and the spread of Buddhism, and
contributions of ancient India.
Unit 9 – China
This unit discusses the geography of China. Also covered are the Shang Dynasty and the Mandate
of Heaven, the Zhou
Dynasty, warring states, the birth of philosophies, Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism, as well
as the Qin Dynasty, the Great Wall of China, and the Tomb of Qin Shi Huandi.
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Unit 10 – Feudal Japan
This unit discusses the geography of Japan, from early Japan
to Fujiwara, feudal Japan, the decline of feudalism, and Japanese isolation.
Unit 11 – Ancient Greece – Birth to Democracy
This unit covers the geography of Greece, how the Minoans and
Mycenaeans began Greek Culture, the Trojan War, the Dark Ages, and Athens as the birth place
of democracy.
Unit 12 – Ancient Greece – Sparta to Alexander the Great
This unit discusses Sparta as the City of Soldiers;
soldiers, slaves, and women in Sparta; Athens versus Sparta; the Persian War, including the
Battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and finally Plataea, where Persia was defeated. Also
covered are the Golden Age of Athens, the Delian League versus the Aegean League in the
Pelopennesian War, contributions of Ancient Greece, Greek columns, Alexander the Great and how
he built his empire, and the Hellenistic Age.
Unit 13 – Ancient Rome – Beginnings to Fall of Caesar
This unit discusses the geography of Rome, the Etruscan Rule,
Horatius at the Bridge, the rise and structure of the Republic, the Punic Wars, including
Carthage, Sicily, the First Punic War, Hannibal, the final battle that destroyed Carthage, and
the results. Also covered are the rise and fall of Julius Ceasar, and Ceasar's accomplishments.
Unit 14 – Pax Romana to Fall of Rome
This unit discusses Augustus Caesar, Rome's first emperor, as well as Roman architecture,
Christians in Rome, the division of the Roman Empire, the collapse of Rome, and the
achievements of Ancient Rome.
Unit 15 – Early American Civilizations
This unit discusses the geography of the Americas, the first Americans, the Olmecs, the Mayans,
Mayan cities and warfare among them, the Aztecs, the Incas, the cliff dwellers, and the mound
builders.
Unit 16 – Middle Ages
This unit discusses the geography of Europe,
the development of feudal Europe, a feudal social pyramid, the Crusades, the Magna Charta which
was designed to limit the power of the King, causes of the Black Death, how the Crusades, the
Magna Charta, and the Black Death ended the
Middle Ages, how culture was reborn through the Renaissance, and Martin Luther and Protestant
Reformation. Also included is a visual timeline.
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