Wrapping Up...

So... what we have learned this year?  Hundreds and hundreds of pages of reading. Hundreds more of notes, dozens of hours of notes and projects. Essays and projects, rubrics and IC.  But, really, what have we learned and...

Why should we care?

Listen to each other explain how today's events and even crises and conflicts are due in large measure to the conditions created by historical events we have been studying since August.

Let's care about this stuff: because this is YOUR world and it is more connected than in any other age because international events now travel to your screen at essentially the speed of light.  Listen, learn, and respect it because you own it in your own little way.

Today's Frame

How did Italian Fascism and German Nazism lead to catastrophic policies and racist and anti-Semitic laws and actions that culminated at least in some cases, in genocide (Nazism)?

Today's Frame

How did interwar Europe cultivate new political systems and cultural movements?

Today's Frame

How did the concept of self-determination, as interepreted by President Wilson and the drafters of the Treaty of Versailles, influence nationalistic tendencies outside of Europe?

Today's Frame

Why was the Great War the first significant case of modern industrial warfare and how did it introduce the concept of "total war"?

Today's Frame

What are the precise underlying and immediate causes of the The Great War?  

Today's Frame

How did visual culture develop a "Modernist" sensibility during 19th-century Europe?  How did various artistic and architectural movements reflect and even provoke or promote the "ism's" consuming broader European culture?

Click here for the activity

Imperialism Primary Sources

"The White Man's Burden," Rudyard Kipling

Heart of Darkness excerpt, Joseph Conrad

Imperialism Treaty sample (similar to Bentley's Sources from the Past)

Today's Frame

As Europeans divided nearly the entire African continent into colonial possessions during the Berlin Conference, how did the Scramble for Africa generate a huge infusion of capital for the Europeans and widespread devastation for African nations?

Today's Frame

How did European imperialism impact Asia, Africa, and the Pacific regions?  How did the various types of colonialism affect each region and nation?

Primary Source: Marx & Engels

The Communist Manifesto excerpt

Today's Frame

All about "ism's"...   How did socialism grow as a response to industrialized societies? How did imperialism grow as Europeans desired access to raw materials for industrialized products? And... how was new imperialism a result of Europeans opening up new markets through colonialism in Africa and Asia?

Friday's Activity

For the activity, we will begin by using this straight-up, conventional PowerPoint from Bentley's publisher. Stand by in class Friday for more directions.

Here's the link to the PowerPoint

Today's Frame

Why did the modern ideas of “the nation” and the “nation-state” develop during 19th-century Europe? How does nationalism have the power to both unify and dismember states and empires?

Today's Frame

How are additional revolutions and the emergence of liberal and conservative thought responses to the French Revolution?

Today's Frame

How was the French Revolution inspired by Enlightenment ideas about the role of government, natural rights, and the social contract? Why did the Jacobins determine that these ideas ultimately required "ideological purity"?

Today's Frame

How did the Enlightenment change European (and American) society forever?

Today's Frame

How does science challenge a society’s understanding of the world as well as its values and convictions?  ... And how does Galileo's story epitomize this phenomenon?

Contact & Conquest Paper Rubric

For the sake of continuity and clarity, we will be using a rubric which is nearly identical to the one we used for the 2nd quarter essay.

Today's Frame

How did the Mongols and Turks from Central Asia conquer and then rule much of Eurasia and parts of Europe?  And... what was the overall impact?

Outlines Due Soon

Please begin researching your essays using the online databases.  If at all necessary, free Internet sources must be credible and approved by me or a librarian.  Outlines will be due next week (see yoru syllabus).

The Unit 8 syllabus has been posted.

Today's Frame

How did the transatlantic slave trade impact both the "New World" and "Old World"?

Today's Frame

Why did the Columbian Exchange represent a profoundly heightened level of global integration of the world after the turn of the 16th century?  Naturally, this includes our "buckets":

• Geography/Environmental factors

• Political development and structures

• Economic systems

• Social structures
• Cultural development and diffusion

Today's Frame

What do the stories about Cortes' conquest of the Aztec and Pizarro's conquest of the Inca tell us about Spanish motives in the "New World"?  Whose voices do we hear- and what connections can be made to Jared Diamond's central thesis in Guns, Germs, and Steel?

Today's Frame

What were the primary motivations for European exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries?

Today's Frame

How did Ghana and Mali establish civilizations that blended Arab Muslim North African culture with sub-Saharan indigenous societies?

Today's Frame

How did the ancient civilizations of West and East Africa develop unique indigenous societies?  How did some of these particular societies embrace Christianity and Islam in and adapt them into their own cultures?

Today's Frame

How did ancient civilizations of the "New World" thrive before European conquest?

Today's Frame and Activity

What characteristics did the ancient civilizations of Latin America (Aztec, Inca, & Maya) share?

* Using pp. 66, starting at "Heirs of the Olmecs" read through p. 69.

Complete a chart comparing and contrasting the 3 civilizations using our buckets and reflecting the frame.  * Remember to check your class syllabus for changes due to today's Late Start.

Unit 7 Syllabus

The syllabi have been posted for each section.

Today's Frame

How did Absolutism consolidate states in central Europe, leading to an absence of large, contiguous empires in the heart of the continent?

Today's Frame

How did the splintering of Europe following the Reformation produce a vigorous response from the Roman Catholic Church called the Catholic Reformation and/or the Counter Reformation?

Today's Frame

How did the Protestant Reformation (Lutheranism, Calvinism, & Anglicanism) destroy the seemingly united fabric of Christendom in Europe, and replace it with a more fragmented political and religious collection of emerging states?

Today's Frame

How did the lives and artworks of Renaissance artists exemplify the 3 main themes of the period?

• INDIVIDUALISM- gov’t policy, capitalism
• SECULARISM- separation btw church & state, diversity
• HUMANISM- revival of learning

Classical Civilizations Videos

Here are the links to 3rd period.


Here are the links to 6th period.

Feel free to check out the other section's videos...

Final Exam Prep

As we begin reviewing for the final exam this week, here are my recommendations for you:

• Make sure all GoogleDrive folders are highly organized by unit
• "Catalog" all target information to begin building a Review Sheet: including all content targets and terms from all units, all in-class frames, and all "Identification" terms from unit tests
• Print out Reading Quizzes and review your strengths and weaknesses
• Review key maps in the book for each unit, possibly cutting and pasting them from the e-book (this should focus more on geography than events)
• As you begin studying, make sure you are "actively studying"- that you're doing something rather than simply "reading" a screen or piece of paper. That can include annotating, amending, merging, quizzing a friend, flash cards, etc.  Quizlet alone is no substitute for studying
• As you move through active review, give yourself a "break"by screening your classmates' Animoto videos
• Look at the buckets and consider what themes are shared and are complementary across our units

Here's the Final Exam Format:

Part I: Multiple Choice (50 Questions) x 1 point each

Part II: Primary Source Multiple Choice Questions (10 Questions) x 1 point each

Part III: Identification (20 Questions) x 1 point each

Part IV: Map Questions (10 Questions) x 2 points each

Remember: the final exam will comprise 20% of your semester grade

Civilization Project Rubric(s)

Click here for the paper rubric, valued at 100 points

Click here for the Animoto/video rubric valued at 50 points

The project's grand total is 150 points, which is tallied in the Tests, Essays, and Projects category (65% of course grade).  That means this project counts as 1.5 typical unit tests.