Trade networks promoted the exchange and diffusion of language, belief systems, tools, intellectual ideas, inventions, and diseases. In this unit, students will study major Afro-Eurasian trade networks connecting the East and the West and how ideas, people, technologies, products, and diseases moved along these routes. Students will explore how the Mongols served as important agents…

The Mediterranean world was reshaped with the fall of the Roman Empire. Three distinct cultural regions developed: feudal Western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic caliphates. These regions interacted with each other and clashed over control of holy lands. In this unit, students will study the overexpansion, corruption, invasions, civil wars, and discord that…

As complex societies and civilizations change over time, their political and economic structures evolve. A golden age may be indicated when there is an extended period of time that is peaceful, prosperous, and demonstrates great cultural achievements. In this unit, students will study how geographic factors influence the development of classical civilizations and their political…

Major religions and belief systems developed in the Eastern Hemisphere. There were important similarities and differences between these belief systems. In this unit, students will have the opportunity to explore belief systems and religions developed by complex civilizations and societies that have similar, as well as different, characteristics. Students will also learn about how belief…

Complex societies and civilizations developed in the Eastern Hemisphere.Although these complex societies and civilizations have certain defining characteristics in common, each is also known for unique cultural achievements and contributions. In this unit, students will study early human communities in the Eastern Hemisphere and how they adapted to and modified the physical environment.

Students will study the first humans through the Neolithic Revolution in the Eastern Hemisphere. The unit builds on the geographic themes of Unit 1 and students will gather evidence about a group of people and how they lived at a particular time making judgments about the Neolithic Revolution’s technological advances in agriculture and domestication of…

Early Peoples of the Americas: The diverse geography of the Eastern Hemisphere has influenced human culture and settlement patterns in distinct ways. Human communities in the Eastern Hemisphere have adapted to or modified the physical environment. This is a unit which begins with an introduction of the impact of geography and includes a study of…