6th Grade World History Class Outline
Unit of Study1. Early People & The Beginning of Civilization 2. The Fertile Crescent 3. Ancient Egypt 4. Judaism and the Jewish People 5. Civilizations and empires of India 6. Ancient China & The Chinese Empire 7.Ancient Greek Civilization 8. Ancient Rome 9. The Byzantine Empire 10. Islamic Civilization 11. Early African Civilizations 12. Civilization of the Americas 13. Europe in the Middle Ages 14. The Renaissance and The Reformation 15. The Age of Exploration and European Colonization 16. The Rise of Monarchy and An Age of Revolution 17. The Modern World: Wars and Hardship 18. Today's World |
Classroom Descriptions1. Learn about the first human societies. Who formed them? How did they survive and thrive? How were they able to build cities and culture? 2. Learn about the first major empires of the ancient world. Who were they? How did they form? What happened to them? 3. Learn about the people, politics, religion and culture of Ancient Egypt. Who were the Pharaohs? How were the Ancient Egyptians so advanced? Why did they build pyramids? 4.Learn about the Jewish people and how their beliefs that affected the world. Who are the Jewish people? What do Jewish people believe? What is monotheism? How did it change religion? 5. Learn about the influential empires and religions of India. What is Hinduism? What is Buddhism? What were the major empires of India? What effect did they have on the modern world? 6. Learn about the ancient culture and beliefs of Ancient China. Learn about the People and Politics of the Chinese Empire. Who are the Chinese people? What do they believe? Where did they get their beliefs and customs? How did China form? What effect did/does China have on the modern world? 7. Learn about the culture and politics of early Greece. Who were the Greeks? What is a city-state? What is democracy and how did it form? How did the Greeks influence the western world? 8. Learn about the people, politics and culture of Ancient Rome. How did the Roman Republic form? What is a republic? How did it expand? How did it become an empire? How did Christianity affect the empire? What happened to the Roman Empire? 9. Learn about the people and culture of the Eastern Empire. Learn about the division that occurred between the Christian Church. How did the Byzantine Empire form? How was it different from the Roman Empire? What division was there in the Christian Church? 10. Learn about the origins and the beliefs of Islam. Learn about early Muslim Empires and their achievements. Who are the Muslim people? What do they believe? How do they compare to Christians and Jews? How did they form Empires? 11. Learn about the people and culture of early Africa. What were the major empires of early Africa? What effect did Islam have on Africa? How are Regions of Africa different from each other? 12. Learn about the civilizations of the Maya, Aztecs and Inca. Who were the Maya, Aztecs and Inca? What were their cultures like? What happened to them? 13. Learn about the people, culture and politics of the middle ages. What happened to Europe after the Roman Empire collapsed? How did Christianity spread into Europe? What was feudalism? What was the Magna Carta and how did it change politics? What were the Crusades? How did medieval society break down? 14. Learn about the origins and beliefs of the Renaissance and the Reformation. What was the renaissance? How did it change Europe? How did it effect the Reformation? What was the reformation? What was the counter-reformation? How does the reformation dived Europe? 15. Learn about European exploration and colonization. Why did Europeans want to explore the sea? Why did they colonize the new world? What happened to people already living in the new world? 16. Learn about the rise and fall of European Monarchy. What was an absolute Monarch? How did they effect Europe and the new world? What was the scientific revolution? What was the Enlightenment? How did these movements help lead to the American and French revolutions? 17. Learn about World War I, World War II and the Cold War. Why did these wars happen? How did these wars dramatically affect the world? 18. Learn about the challenges and achievements of the world today. What are the continuing conflicts? What have we achieved? What will the future world look like? |