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Unit 1: Historical Thinking
** Year 1 Quarter 1 ** Resources: 1. Historians make use of the tools of social sciences to explore elements of history, geography, government and economics. 2. Historians use evidence from primary and secondary sources to understand perspectives of people who lived in the past. |||||| **Essential Questions:** 1. Describe historical events and issues from the perspectives of people living at the time, avoiding evaluating the past in terms of today’s norms and values. 2. How can you show the relationship among people and places and their environments? || (7.1)Historians and archaeologists describe historical events and issues from the perspectives of people living at the time to avoid evaluating the past in terms of today’s norms and values.
 * ** Unit 1: Historical Thinking and Skills, Spatial Thinking and Skills ** ||
 * **Big Idea:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **__History__**

(7.12)Maps and other geographic representations can be used to trace the development of human settlement over time. |||| **__History__** (7.1)Describe historical events and issues from the perspectives of people living at the time, avoiding evaluating the past in terms of today’s norms and values.
 * __Geography__**

(7.12)Demonstrate how maps and other geographic representations can be used to trace the development of human settlement from past to present. || ** BENCHMARK VOCAB **
 * __Geography__**


 * Primary sources**
 * Secondary sources**
 * Perspective** || Perspective of the time

Geographic tools

Artifacts ||


 * Extended Standards: **
 * ** Historical Thinking ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * HIS.68.1a Use various sources to describe a historical event or period from different perspectives. || HIS.68.1b Sequence a series of events in history over an extended time period. || HIS.68.1c Identify a historical event/activity occurring before or after another given activity/event. ||

Unit 2: Early Greece & Rome
** Year 1 Quarter 1 ** Resources: Ancient civilizations influenced the development of Western Civilization including cultural and governmental components. |||||| **Essential Questions:** 1. How did Ancient Greece influence the development of Western civilization? 2. How did the Roman Empire influence the development of Western civilization? || (7.2) The civilizations that developed in Greece and Rome had an enduring impact on later civilizations. This legacy includes governance and law, engineering and technology, art and architecture, as well as literature and history. The Roman Empire also played an instrumental role in the spread of Christianity**.**
 * ** Unit 2: Early Civilizations – Ancient Greece & Rome ** ||
 * **Big Ideas:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **__History__**

(7.17) Greek democracy and the Roman Republic were radical departures from monarchy and theocracy, influencing the structure and function of modern democratic governments. |||| **__History__** (7.2)Cite examples and explain the enduring impact that Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome had on later civilizations.
 * __Government__**

(7.17)Describe how the Greek democracy and the Roman Republic were radical departures from monarchy and theocracy.
 * __Government__**

Explain how they influenced the structure and function of modern democratic governments. || ** BENCHMARK VOCAB **

-citizenship and (direct) democracy -Greek inventions ( astrolabe, pulley block, wood screw, etc.) -Greek art & building design, literature -Greeks: study of history __Roman influence on western civilization__ (structural aspects of society): -government & law - first republic - modern cities, road system -literature, poetry, and art __Athenian Government__ - power of the citizens __Roman Government__ -elected official -systems of law; foundation for U.S. government -written constitution -three branches -checks and balances -civic duty -citizenship to males, freed slaves -expected to vote ||
 * Republic**
 * Constitution**
 * Collaboration** || __Greek Influence on western cultures__ (concepts &living aspects) :


 * Extended Standards: **
 * ** Early Civilizations ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * HIS.68.2a Compare the key physical and human features of societies of the past in the Eastern Hemisphere with society today. Content Connection Examples: Egypt, India, China, Mesopotamia (6), Greece and Rome (Gr. 7).

__Key Terms__: all of (c), (b), and content connection examples of Ancient Greece and Rome. || HIS.68.2b Identify key physical and human features of societies (e.g., houses, rivers, mountains, roads, buildings).

__Key Terms__: all of (c) and key physical and human features of societies of Ancient Greece and Rome. || HIS.68.2c Identify the physical and human features of the local community.

__Key Terms__: governance (theocracy and monarchy) and law, engineering and technology, art and architecture, as well as literature and history ||

** Unit 3: Feudalism **
** Year 1 Quarter 1 ** Resources: The fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Feudalism led to a change in lifestyle. |||||| **Essential Questions:** 1. Explain the effect of the Germanic invasions upon the Roman Empire and development of feudal and manorial systems in Europe. 2. Explain the effect of the Mongols on the Byzantine Empire and China. || (7.3)Germanic invasions helped to break up the Roman Empire and set the stage for the development of feudal and manorial systems. (7.13) Geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas. (7.4) Later invasions helped establish Mongol dominance in central Asia and led to the destruction of the Byzantine Empire by the Turks. |||| **//__History__//** (7.3)Describe how Germanic invasions helped to break up the Roman Empire and set the stage for the development of feudal and manorial systems. (7.13)Demonstrate how maps and other geographic representations can be used to trace the development of human settlement from past to present. (7.4) Describe how the dominance of Mongols in Asia led to the destruction of the Byzantine Empire by the Turks. || ** BENCHMARK VOCAB **
 * ** Unit 3: Feudalism & Transitions, the Beginning ** ||
 * **Big Ideas:**
 * **Strands and Content Statements** ||||  **Student Expectations**  ||||  **Key Concepts & Vocabulary**  ||
 * **__History__**
 * __Geography__**
 * __History__**
 * __Geography__**
 * __History__**

-decline of the Roman institutions
 * Feudalism**
 * Manorial** || __Decline of Roman Empire__
 * -**Influence of Germanic invasions

__Rise of Feudalism__ -Feudalism -vassals -Organization of power and government -manorial systems -relationship between manorial systems and feudalism

__Silk trade__ - allowed for expansion - easy travel which aided 13th century Mongol invasion

__Byzantine Empire:__ -Rise and Fall -invasion of Ottoman Turks -importance of Constantinople ||
 * -** 14th & 15th centuries (1300-1400)


 * Extended Standards: **
 * ** Feudalism and Transitions ** ||
 * **Most Complex** ||  || **Least Complex** ||
 * HIS.68.3a Explain how changes in the home, school, community or country can have positive or negative consequences. Content Connection Examples: historic achievements, geographic factors.

__Key Terms__: all of (b), (c), and explain how the various invasions (Germanic, Turks, and Mongols) and geographic factors that impacted the way people lived. || HIS.68.3b Identify why or how things change in the home, school or community.

__Key Terms__: all of (c) and human settlement from past to present. || HIS.68.3c Identify a recent change in the home, school or community.

__Key Terms:__ Manorial systems, feudalism, invasion ||