Global History

Comparative Guide

Geography

Essential Questions

  • How do physical features affect and/or impact people and their culture?
  • What is topography? What are the natural resources? The climate? The vegetation?
  • How do geographic features affect History, Political Structure, Economics, Social Structure, Culture, Opportunities and Limitations?
  • How have people impacted their environment?

Geography Vocabulary

Latitude Longitude Parallels Meridians
Prime meridian Equator Hemisphere Continent
Region Country Time Zones Ocean climate
Topography Isthmus Peninsula Archipelago
Plateau Delta Escarpment Cape
Strait Climate Natural Resources Vegetation
Strategic location Population density Demography Migration
Communication Interdependence Map projection Cartography
Almanac Atlas    

Economics

Essential Questions

  • What are the three basic questions?
  • What type of economy (economies) exist in this region?
  • How do natural resources or the lack of natural resources affect scarcity and opportunity cost?
  • How is this region interdependent?
  • How does technology effect the economy in this region?

Economic Vocabulary

Economic systems Traditional Market Capitalism
Free Enterprise Command Mercantilism Communism
Mixed Economy Socialism Factors of production Land
Labor Capital Management Three questions
Scarcity Opportunity cost GNP/GDP CPI
Infrastructure Import Export Balance of Trade
International Debt Standard of living Subsistence farming  

 

Government

Essential Questions

  • What is the governmental system that exists in the region?
  • What are the rights and responsibilities of the region’s citizens?
  • What civil liberties or human rights violations exist in the region?

Government Vocabulary

Monarchy Absolute Monarchy Limited Monarchy
Tribal Oligarchy Dictatorship
Totalitarian Anarchy Democracy
Direct Democracy Representative Democracy Parliamentary Democracy
Civil liberties Human rights  
Nationalism (optional) Imperialism (optional)  

 

Society and Culture

Essential Questions

  • What is the family structure?
  • What is the social structure?
  • What are the life styles of this population?
  • What are the major influences and cultural contributions of the society? (Art, religion, technology, literature, music, and written language)
  • What outside influences contributed to cultural diffusion in this region?

Society and Culture vocabulary

Family structure Nuclear Family Extended Family
Joint Family Matriarchal Family Patriarchal Family
Class system Social mobility Culture
Cultural diffusion Religion Monotheistic
Polytheistic Theocracy Customs
Mores Folkways Values
Assimilation Acculturation Ethnocentrism
Xenophobia Race Racism
Prejudice Stereotypes Demographics
Population Overpopulation Density
Life expectancy Birth rate Health care
Infant mortality Zero population growth  

 

History

Essential Questions

  • Who are the major people?
  • What were the major events?
  • What was the sequence of events? (timeline)
  • What are the major historical eras spanned by this unit?

History Vocabulary

Chronology Era Historiography
Primary source Secondary source Anthropology
Archaeology Fact vs. opinion Evolution
Creation Dating techniques BC / AD
BCE / CE Prehistory Paleolithic
Neolithic Agricultural revolution Characteristic of civilizations

 

Guide to Historic Eras

Era

State Ed Era

Time Period

Ancient World

(Isolated Civilizations)

#2

4000 BC-500 AD

Regional Interaction and Diffusion

(Regional development)

#3

500 -1400 AD

Global Interactions and Imperialism

(Global Era)

#4 – 6

1400-1900 AD

Nationalism / Independence

(Rise of local over imperial powers)

#6 – 7

1900-1960 AD

Modern Era

(Global interdependence as equals

#8 – 9

1960 - present

 

General Vocabulary

Feudalism Exploitation Cycle of poverty
Green Revolution Third World North / South
Have / Have-nots Less Developed Countries Underdeveloped Countries

 

 Skills

Document-based questions and constructed response

  • Interpret data
  • Compare portions of data
  • Relate data to other understandings

Comparative tools:

  • Similarities and differences
  • Cause and effect
  • Persistence and change

Locate information in an atlas or index

Recognize difference map projections

Identify the world’s continents and regions

Read physical, political and demographic maps

Read and construct a timeline

Recognize and use primary sources

Be able to research and write a paper using MLA format, parenthetical notions and works cited

Computer research tools: Maps and Facts, MAS, News bank, Internet

Analyze current events

Analyze political cartoons

Use a library to locate specific information about a country in the world

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