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Unit 1
Global Tapestry (1200-1450)
(a) Identify ONE state in Afro-Eurasia whose rulers adopted Islam in the period circa 1200 to 1450. (b) Describe ONE way in which the spread of Islam influenced state-building in Afro-Eurasia in the period circa 1200 to 1450. (c) Explain ONE way in which the spread of Islam met resistance from, or was accommodated to, existing traditions in Afro-Eurasia in the period circa 1200 to 1450.
Unit 2
Networks of Exchange (1200-1450)
(a) Identify ONE trade network that expanded under Mongol rule in the period circa 1200 to 1450. (b) Describe ONE way Mongol rule affected commerce along the Silk Roads in the period circa 1200 to 1450. (c) Explain ONE way expanded exchange along Eurasian trade routes contributed to the spread of disease in the period circa 1200 to 1450.
Unit 3
Land-Based Empires (1450-1750)
(a) Identify ONE region the Ottoman Empire added to its territory in the period circa 1450 to 1750. (b) Describe ONE way the Mughal Empire maintained control over a religiously diverse population in the period circa 1450 to 1750. (c) Explain ONE similarity in how the Ottoman and Mughal empires legitimized their rule in the period circa 1450 to 1750.
Unit 4
Transoceanic Interconnections (1450-1750)
(a) Identify ONE crop produced by enslaved labor in the Americas in the period circa 1450 to 1750. (b) Describe ONE way the transatlantic slave trade reshaped labor systems in the Americas in the period circa 1450 to 1750. (c) Explain ONE economic effect of American silver on Europe or Asia in the period circa 1450 to 1750.
Unit 5
Revolutions (1750-1900)
(a) Identify ONE Enlightenment idea that influenced the Atlantic revolutions in the period circa 1750 to 1900. (b) Describe ONE way the Haitian Revolution differed from the French Revolution in the period circa 1750 to 1900. (c) Explain ONE way Enlightenment ideas shaped Latin American independence movements in the period circa 1750 to 1900.
Unit 6
Consequences of Industrialization (1750-1900)
(a) Identify ONE labor system that expanded outside Europe in the period circa 1750 to 1900. (b) Describe ONE way industrial demand reshaped labor in Asia, Africa, or the Americas in the period circa 1750 to 1900. (c) Explain ONE way workers or reformers responded to these new labor systems in the period circa 1750 to 1900.
Unit 7
Global Conflict (1900-Present)
(a) Identify ONE cause of the First World War (1914-1918). (b) Describe ONE consequence of the First World War for a region outside Europe in the period circa 1914 to 1939. (c) Explain ONE way the global impact of the Second World War (1939-1945) differed from that of the First World War.
Unit 8
Cold War and Decolonization (1900-Present)
(a) Identify ONE state that joined the Non-Aligned Movement in the period after 1945. (b) Describe ONE reason newly independent states chose nonalignment in the period circa 1945 to 1991. (c) Explain ONE challenge faced by new states in Africa or Asia after independence in the period circa 1945 to 2000.
Unit 9
Globalization (1900-Present)
(a) Identify ONE digital technology that spread widely in the period after 1990. (b) Describe ONE way digital technology reshaped social or political movements in the period after 1990. (c) Explain ONE challenge globalization has created for the environment or for public health in the period after 1990.