World History Public Schools of Robeson County
Unit 3- WORLD HISTORY
INSTRUCTIONAL ALIGNMENT
Essential Standard:WH.H.4 Analyze the political, economic, social and cultural factors that lead to the development of the first age of global interaction.
WH.H.5 Analyze exploration and expansion in terms of its motivations and impact.
Clarifying Objective(s):
WH.H.4.1- Explain how interest in classical learning and religious reform contributed to increased global interaction (e.g., Renaissance, Protest Reformation, Catholic Reformation, Printing revolution, etc.).,
WH.H.4.2 Explain the political, social and economic reasons for the rise of powerful centralized nation-states and empires (e.g., Reformation, absolutism, limited monarchy, empires, etc.).
WH.H.4.3 Explain how agricultural and technological improvements transformed daily life socially and economically (e.g., growth of towns, creation of guilds, feudalism and the manorial system, commercialization, etc.).
WH.H.4.4 Analyze the effects of increased global trade on the interactions between nations in Europe, Southwest Asia, the Americas and Africa (e.g., exploration, mercantilism, inflation, rise of capitalism, etc.).
WH.H.5.1 Explain how and why the motivations for exploration and conquest resulted in increased global interactions, differing patterns of trade, colonization, and conflict among nations (e.g., religious and political motives, adventure, economic investment, Columbian
exchange, commercial revolution, conquistador destruction of Aztec and Incan civilizations, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, trading outposts, plantation colonies, rise of capitalism, etc.).
WH.H.5.2 Explain the causes and effects of exploration and expansion (e.g., technological innovations and advances, forces that allowed the acquisition of colonial possessions and trading privileges in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Colombian exchange).
WH.H.5.3 Analyze colonization in terms of the desire for access to resources and markets as well as the consequences on indigenous cultures, population, and environment (e.g., commercial revolution, Columbian exchange, religious conversion, spread of Christianity, spread of disease, spread of technology, conquistadors, slave trade,
encomienda system, enslavement of indigenous people, mixing of populations, etc.).
WH.H.5.4 Analyze the role of investment in global exploration in terms of its implications for international trade (e.g., transatlantic trade, mercantilism, joint-stock companies, trading companies, government and monarchial funding, corporations, creation of capital markets, etc.). / Essential Question(s):
1. What factors prompted the Renaissance?
2. How did the revival of classical learning contribute to global interactions?
3. How did religion and secular struggles impact government structure of society?
4. How did motivations for explorations and conquest increase global interactions?
5. Why did exploration impact indigenous people around the world?
Pacing Guide:
2.5 weeks
Unit (3) of Study
Renaissance, Reformation, and the Age of Exploration / Major Concepts
Reform
Revolt
Exploration
Improvement
Expansion
Colonization
Growth
Conflict
Trade
Power / Instructional Task
WH.H.4.1
1. Describe the various classical features of the early renaissance.
2. Classify the difference between the Protestant and Catholic Reformation.
3. Explain how printing increased formal learning.
4. Defend your viewpoint on how the renaissance increased global interaction.
5. Hypothesize how reformation increased world advancement.
WH.H.4.2
1. Define a centralized nation-state/political unit and other related vocabulary.
2. Give examples of nation-states.
3. Examine political, social, and economic rise of powerful nation-states.
WH.H.4.3
1. Read about the technological and agricultural improvements of the feudal era.
2. Explain how technological and agricultural improvements improved daily life
3. Classify the effects of agricultural improvements on population development.
Analyze how technology advanced the spread of culture throughout the period.
WH.H.4.4
1. Define mercantilism and other related vocabulary.
2. Draw the concept of global trade.
3. Classify items of trade to specific countries.
4. Analyze the causes of increased global trade.
5. Determine the effects of global trade.
6. Compare the causes and the effects of global trade
7. Develop a model for the movement of people and ideas.
WH.H.5.1
1. Define exploration and other related vocabulary.
2. Explain the motivations for exploration.
3. Create a timeline that explains the sequence of events during the age of exploration.
4. Break down how the movement of people and ideas affect the different societies.
5. Construct how conquest led to increased global interactions.
WH.H.5.2
1. Outline the causes of exploration and expansion.
2. Defend the reasons why people explored other land areas.
3. Explain the effects of exploration and expansion.
4. Develop how power shifts are created by exploration
5. Analyze the effects in relation to Native Americans.
6. Organize the causes and effects of exploration and expansion
WH.H.5.3
1. Identify the different colonial settlements by the English, Spanish, French, etc.
2. Demonstrate specific needs of countries in terms of natural resources.
3. Explain positive and negative outcomes of colonization on indigenous populations; other groups.
4. Outline how colonization and the need for new markets created political, social and economic change in the Americas.
5. Conclude the overall effects of colonization and the need for new markets on the Americas and Europe.
WH.H.5.4
1. Identify investment, global trade, and other related vocabulary.
2. Give examples of exploration and trade connections.
3. Divide the world into spheres of influence
4. Diagram and compare trade patterns. / Essential
Vocabulary
Pre:
1. Exploration
2. Overseas
3. Missionary
4. Colony
5. Plantations
6. Conquest
Current:
1. Secular
2. Schism
3. Colonialism
4. Capitalism
5. Mercantilism
6. Printing Press
7. Catholic
8. Protestant
9. Byzantine
10. Conquistador
11. Columbian Exchange
12. Triangle Trade
Introductory:
1. Machiavellianism
2. Spanish Inquisition
3. Classicalism
4. Humanism
5. Utopia
6. Holocaust
7. Assimilation
8. Diffusion
9. Indulgence
10. Vernacular
/ Instructional Resources
Text Resources:
Textbook
Primary and Secondary Sources
Digital Resources:
Ancient History Sourcebook
Smart History
NARA
Library of Congress
British Museum
Smithsonian
PBS
Crash Course Videos
Mankind Videos
Discovery Education
www.learnnc.com
www.discovery.com
www.nationalgeographic.com
Literary Connections:
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists
Machiavelli’s The Prince
Luther , 95 Thesis and On the Freedom of
a Christian
Pico della Mirandola, The Courtier and
Utopia
Thomas Cranmer “Letter on the King’s
Divorce”
St. Francis Xavier letters / Sample Assessment Prompts
Web-quest: Renaissance-Italy and Beyond
Mini-DBQ-What was the impact of the Age of Exploration on the indigenous peoples of the lands explored?
Writing activities:
short response to
prompt or primary
source: What was the short
term and long term
consequences of the
Reformation?
Maps: Trace the exploration routes of the major explorers
Class debates and
discussions: Exploration and
conquest was more beneficial
than destructive to the
conquered peoples, or,
Exploration was more
destructive than beneficial.
Martin Luther Trial
Timelines: Trace the developments associated with the Renaissance, Reformation, and/or Exploration
Research of major
events, issues, and/or
people associated
with content of study
Formative and
Summative quizzes
and tests