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Social Studies World History II	Overview This is the second of a two-year, chronologically organized study of world history and geography. In this second year, students study the world from 1500 through the contemporary era. The course weaves together the skills and content of both history and geography so that students may learn how history and geography affect each other and therefore gain a more complete understanding of the world around them, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Students continue to refine and expand critical thinking skills, practice decision making and problem solving, and formulatequestions to guide research.

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DEMONSTRATE CHANGES IN THE 16th, 17th & 18th CENTURIES

6.a

Describe the Scientific Revolution and its Effects

6.a.1

Explain connections between Scientific Revolution and earlier ideas

6.a.2

Explain the impact of astronomical discoveries on society

6.a.3

Explain the development & significance of the "scientific method"

6.a.4

Describe discoveries by William Harvey & Ben Franklin

6.b

Describe the Age of Absolutism Including Monarchies

6.b.1

Explain how religious wars of 1500s & 1600s led to strong monarchies

6.b.2

Describe absolutism

6.b.3

Analyze the characteristics of strong monarchies in the 16th century

6.b.4

Explain how absolute monarchs handled religious issues

6.b.5

Assess the growth of monarchy in Russia & its spread to Siberia

6.c

Assess Impact of English Civil War & Glorious Revolution

6.c.1

Analyze the foundations of English freedoms

6.c.2

Describe the causes of the English Civil War

6.c.3

Describe the events of the English Civil War

6.c.4

Describe the Glorious Revolution

6.c.5

Assess impact of English Civil War & Glorious Revolution on democracy

6.d

Explain Enlightenment Ideas & Influence on Founders of United States

6.d.1

Describe the principal ideas of the Enlightenment

6.d.2

Identify Enlightenment thinkers and describe their works

6.d.3

Explain how academies, salons, publishing spread the Enlightenment

6.d.4

Explain the impact of the Enlightenment on society

6.e

Describe the French Revolution

6.e.1

Identify causes of the French Revolution

6.e.2

Trace the development of the French Revolution to Napoleon

6.e.3

Describe the events and outcomes of the Napoleonic era

6.e.4

Compare causes, traits & results of the American & French Revolutions

6.f

Identify Impact of the American & French Revolutions on Latin America

6.f.1

Explain that independence came to French/Spanish/Portuguese colonies

6.f.2

Identify Latin American revolutionary leaders - L'Overture, Bolivar

6.g

Describe Expansion of Arts, Philosophy, Literature, New Technologies

6.g.1

Identify artists, philosophers, writers of 1500s, 1600s, 1700s

6.g.2

Describe new forms of art and literature of 1500s, 1600s, 1700s

6.g.3

Describe how Enlightenment views were reflected in art & literature

6.g.4

Describe new technologies important to European economies

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