Standards - Social Studies

Describe developments in Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance period with respect to humanism, arts and literature, intellectual development, increased trade, and advances in technology.

Describe the role of mercantilism and imperialism in European exploration and colonization in the sixteenth century, including the Columbian Exchange.

Describing the impact of the Commercial Revolution on European society

Identifying major ocean currents, wind patterns, landforms, and climates affecting European exploration

Explain causes of the Reformation and its impact, including tensions between religious and secular authorities, reformers and doctrines, the Counter-Reformation, the English Reformation, and wars of religion.

Explain the relationship between physical geography and cultural development in India, Africa, Japan, and China in the early Global Age, including trade and travel, natural resources, and movement and isolation of peoples and ideas.

Depicting the general location of, size of, and distance between regions in the early Global Age

Describe the rise of absolutism and constitutionalism and their impact on European nations.

Contrasting philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the belief in the divine right of kings

Comparing absolutism as it developed in France, Russia, and Prussia, including the reigns of Louis XIV, Peter the Great, and Frederick the Great

Identifying major provisions of the Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights

Identify significant ideas and achievements of scientists and philosophers of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment.

Describe the impact of the French Revolution on Europe, including political evolution, social evolution, and diffusion of nationalism and liberalism.

Identifying causes of the French Revolution

Describing the influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution

Identifying objectives of different groups participating in the French Revolution

Describing the role of Napoléon Bonaparte as an empire builder

Compare revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.

Identifying the location of countries in Latin America

Describe the impact of technological inventions, conditions of labor, and the economic theories of capitalism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism during the Industrial Revolution on the economies, societies, and politics of Europe.

Identifying important inventors in Europe during the Industrial Revolution

Comparing the Industrial Revolution in England to later revolutions in Europe

Describe the influence of urbanization on the Western World during the nineteenth century.

Describing the search for political democracy and social justice in the Western World

Describe the impact of European nationalism and Western imperialism as forces of global transformation, including the unification of Italy and Germany, the rise of Japan’s power in East Asia, economic roots of imperialism, imperialist ideology, colonialism and national rivalries, and United States’ imperialism.

Describing resistance to European imperialism in Africa, Japan, and China

Explain causes and consequences of World War I, including imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and the alliance system.

Describing the rise of Communism in Russia during World War I

Describing military technology used during World War I

Identifying problems created by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919

Identifying alliances during World War I and boundary changes after World War I

Explain challenges of the post-World War I period.

Identifying causes of the Great Depression

Characterizing the global impact of the Great Depression

Describe causes and consequences of World War II.