World History - Junior High

World History - Junior High

2023-24: Tuesday 4-5:30pm EST

Weekly Schedule

Week 1: Sept 5, 2023

Introductions, teaching methods, expectations, questions

Week 2: Sept 12, 2023

Ancient Sumer, Flood Myths, First Dynasty of Egypt, Indus Valley, Yellow River

Please read:

Bauer p 3-40

Week 3: Sept 19, 2023

Uruk, Gilgamesh, Egyptian Pyramids, Sargon

Please read:

Bauer p 51-61, 71-77, skim 78-87, read 95-103

Week 4: Sept 26, 2023

Harappa, Old Kingdom Egypt, Akkadians, Hebrews, Abram

Please read:

Bauer p 104-117, skim 118-126, read 127-144

Week 5: Oct 3, 2023

Middle Kingdom Egypt, Babylon, Hammurabi, Xia & Shang Dynasties

Please read:

Bauer p 147-154, 155-177, skim 178-182

Week 6: Oct 10, 2023

Crete, Harappa, Hittites, Egypt vs Hyksos, Shang Dynasty, Mycenae

Please read:

Bauer p 183-196, skim 196-212, read 219-228

Week 7: Oct 17, 2023

Hebrews, Assyrians, Hittites, The Trojan War, Shang Dynasty, Rig Veda

Please read:

Bauer 229-237, skim 238-252, read 253-266

Week 8: Oct 24, 2023

Assyrians, Babylonians, Rameses III, Dorians, Nebuchadnezzar, End of the Shang Dynasty

Please read:

Bauer skim p 267-274, read 275-295

Week 9: Oct 31, 2023

Zhou Dynasty, The Bharata War, The Kingdom of Israel, David, Solomon, Shalmaneser

Please read:

Bauer 299-313, skim 314-327, read 328-344

Week 10: Nov 7, 2023

New Grecian Cities, The Founding of Rome, Assyrian Empire, Sennacherib, Chinese Kings and Royalty

Please read:

Bauer 354-370, skim 371-381, read 382-390, skim 391-409

Week 11: Nov 14, 2023

Ashurbanipal, Medes & Persians, Athens & Sparta, Rome Under the Kings

Please read:

Bauer skim 410-417, read 418-44, skim 443-454

Week 12: Nov 21, 2023

Cyrus, Rise of Persia & Decline of Babylon, Carthage, Roman Republic, Kingdom of Magadha

Please read:

Bauer 455-490

Week 13: Nov 28, 2023

Chu, Confucius, Persian Empire, The Persian Wars

Please read:

Bauer 491-499, skim 500-514, read 515-535

Week 14: Dec 5, 2023

The Peloponnesian Wars, Sack of Rome, Jin & Ch'in, Philip of Macedon, read Thucydides (excerpt)

Please read:

Bauer skim 539-554, read 555-583

Week 15: Dec 12, 2023

Romans vs Samnites, Alexander the Great, The Mauryan Empire, Imperial China

Please read:

Bauer 584-600, skim 601-608, read 609-612, skim 613-621

Week 16: Dec 19, 2023

Seleucids vs Rome, The Punic Wars, Han Dynasty

Please read:

Bauer 622-637, skim 638-658, read 659-661, skim 661-667, read 668-679

Week 17: Dec 26, 2023

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Week 18: Jan 2, 2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Week 19: Jan 9, 2024

Julius Caesar, Augustus, Early Roman Emperors, Early Christianity, Han & Xin Dynasties

Please read:

Bauer 680-712, skim 717-734

Week 20: Jan 16, 2024

The "Good Emperors"s, Huandi, End of the Han Dynasty, Constantine

Please read:

Bauer skim 735-763, read 764-777

Week 21: Jan 23, 2024

Early Christianity, Europe After Rome, The Spread of Islam

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Five: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: Christendom, The Caliphate, Networks and Exchange in the Islamic World, Was There Ever a "Dark Age"?
Selections from Gregory of Tours' "The History of the Franks"

Week 22: Jan 30, 2024

Empires in India, Trade Routes in Asia, China: Three Kingdoms and Six Brief Dynasties, Early Medieval Japan

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Five: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: The Mauryan and Gupta Empires, China Between the Han and the Tang Dynasties, The Silk Road, Shoguns, Samurai, and the Japanese Middle Ages (video)

Week 23: Feb 6, 2024

African Kingdoms, The Incas, The Aztecs, The Americas in the Middle Ages

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Five: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: Cycles of Collapse in Mesoamerica, Long-distance Trade in the Americas, States and Empires of West Africa, The Americas 1200-1450, watch "Inca Empire" and "Aztec Empire" videos

Week 24: Feb 13, 2024

European and Arabic Long-Distance Travellers, Observations on Other Cultures, The Crusades, Fourteenth-Century Europe, Timur, the Vikings

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Five: Selected Readings (PDF)
Notes & Additional Readings on: The Hundred Years' War, The Crusades, Richard, & Saladin, and Jerusalem, the Vikings, Olga of Kiev

Week 25: Feb 20, 2024

The Mongols, Chinggis (Genghis) Khan, the Ming and Tang Dynasties

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Five: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: China Under the Tang and Ming Dynasties, watch video "Silk and the Song Dynasty"

Week 26: Feb 27, 2024

Great Ocean Voyages, Advances in Mapmaking, Prince Henry the Navigator, The Sea Route to India

Please read:

UCLA: Big Eras Five and Six: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: Oceania 1200-1450, New World Networks, Communities in Afro-Eurasia, The Spread of Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa

Week 27: Mar 5, 2024

The Renaissance, Constantinople, Henry VIII, Italian & Spanish Ruling Families

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Five: Selected Readings (PDF)
Notes & Additional Readings on: The Renaissance, the history of Constantinople, Henry VIII & the Church of England, the Medici, the Borgias

Week 28: Mar 12, 2024

Martin Luther & the Protestant Reformation, Wars in France and Spain, The Ottoman Empire, Venetian Trade and Power, The Omani Empire

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Six: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: Ottoman Rule on Land and Sea, watch video "The Omani Empire"
Notes & Additional Readings on: Suleiman the Magnificent, Venice

Week 29: Mar 19, 2024

The Mughal Empire, Ming & Qing Dynasties, Islam in Southeast Asia, Gunpowder, Changing Warfare in Japan

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Six: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: China Under the Tang and Ming Dynasties, "The Mughal Empire"

Week 30: Mar 26, 2024

HAPPY EASTER

Week 31: Apr 2, 2024

European Voyages to South America & the Caribbean, The Columbian Exchange, The Spanish in Mexico and Peru, English Interaction with North American Natives, The Songhai Empire

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Six: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: The Columbian Exchange, The Disastrous Effects of Increased Global Interactions, Transatlantic Migration Patterns

Week 32: Apr 9, 2024

The Thirty Years' War, The Enlightenment, The Russian Empire, Kievan Rus, Ottoman Invasions, Oceanic Empires

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Six: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: From Muscovy to the Russian Empire, Oceanic Empires
Additional Notes & Readings on: Kievan Rus, Sweden as a World Power, Ottoman Invasions

Week 33: Apr 16, 2024

Scientific Revolution, Trade and Rivalries on the Sea, Trade Between Europe and Asia

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Six: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: European States and Empires, Production and Distribution in 1750 , Primary Sources: Europe and China in 1750

Week 34: Apr 23, 2024

American Independence, The Napoleonic Wars, Nineteenth-Century Africa, European Colonies: The Philippines, Cuba, Haiti

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Seven: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: Economic and Material Causes of Revolt , The Atlantic Revolutions, West Africa in the Age of Revolutions, watch video "Haitian Revolution"
The Napoleonic Wars, The British Navy, The Dutch East India Company

Week 35: Apr 30, 2024

Nineteenth Century Thought & Ideologies, Late Empires All Over the World, Growth of Nationalism

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Seven: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: The Qing Dynasty, The Ottoman Empire, The Mughal Empire, The Tokugawa Shogunate, Italian Nationalism, Bismarck and German Nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism

Week 36: May 7, 2024

The Early Twentieth Century, Worldwide Interactions, The Russian Revolution, World War I, Modern Genocides

Please read:

UCLA: Big Era Eight: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: The Power of One: The Russian Revolution, What Caused the First World War?, The First World War as a Global War, A Lost Generation
Additional Notes & Readings on: Asia and Africa During World War I, Marxism

Week 37: May 14, 2024

World War II, Gandhi, Newly Independent Nations, The Cold War, The Collapse of the Soviet Union

Please read:

UCLA: Big Eras Eight and Nine: Selected Readings (PDF)
OER: The Second World War, And Then Gandhi Came, The Cold War Around the World, Why Does Genocide Still Happen?, The Collapse of Communism
Additional Notes & Readings on: The Holocaust, The Holodomor, The Fall of the Soviet Union, Independence of Former Colonies and Soviet States

Week 38: May 21, 2024

Review

Week 39: May 28, 2024

Review

Week 40: Jun 4, 2024

Final Exams