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Consumable Workbooks: World History - Patterns of Interaction Workbook and Reading Study Guide (Cost $15.00 each-Replacement). Students will be responsible for these books for both World Studies I and II (9th and 10th Grade) at the end of the year.

Attendance: Will follow Fairfax Counties Attendance Policy (See Attendance Policy).

Program of Studies (POS) / Standards of Learning (SOL) World Studies is an SOL driven class. The States Standards of Accreditation, Benchmarks and Indicators for the Standards of Learning, and Fairfax County's Program of Studies can be found on the Internet at: fcps.edu

Course Objectives - Students will explore the human experience from Prehistory to 1500 C.E. Significant world historical themes, events, people, ideas and geographical influences will be examined. We will be learning about early humans, the development of early civilizations, the rise, and fall of classical civilizations, and the post-classical developments and regional interactions leading up to the Renaissance period. This course acknowledges our increasingly global and multicultural world. We will be incorporating geography throughout the curriculum. It is important that students grasp the importance of geography in the development and distribution of humans throughout the world.

The following themes will be studied in accordance with these outlines: (1) Prehistory and Human Beginnings (2) Early River Valley Civilizations (3) Ancient Greece (4) Ancient Rome (5) Ancient Persia, India, and China (6) The Byzantine Empire and Russia (7) Islamic Civilizations (8) Africa and Post Classical Asia (9) Mayan, Aztecs, and Incas (10) Medieval Europe and (11) The Renaissance

Course Outline

Prehistory: Students will explain the physical and cultural development of early humans, their migrations to populate the various parts of the world, and the shift from hunter-gathering societies to settled agrarian and nomadic pastoral societies, with emphasis on the role of physical geography. This unit includes physical and cultural adaptations of early man, Paleolithic man, migration patterns, Ice Ages, the Neolithic Revolution, and nomadic societies. (1-2 weeks)

River Valley Civilizations: Students will analyze how and where early civilizations emerged, the characteristics of early civilizations and the impact of these civilizations. This unit includes Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus River Valley and Shang China. (3-4 weeks)

Classical Period: Students will define classical societies focusing on the similarities and differences among the classical societies of this era, describing their enduring legacies, and explain the conditions contributing to the collapse of these societies and the major global trends of this era. This unit includes Greece, Humanism, Rome, Christianity, Ghana/Mali/Songhai Africa, Mauryan and Gupta India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Qin and Han China, Confucianism and Daoism. (10-12 weeks)

Post-Classical Period: Students will explain the impact of the collapse of the