Grade 11: Modern World History - Howard County Public Schools

HCPSS Curriculum FrameworkModern World HistoryWorldReligions andBelief SystemsPoliticalEmpires and2. Use cause and effect reasoning todetermine why certain events occurred andare possibly related.3. Determine how people used problemsolving skills to overcome historicalchallenges.4. Practice writing generalizations by collectingdifferent examples, identifying what theyhave in common, and making statementsthat apply equally to all.5. Compare the fundamental teachings,practices, and divisions found in Judaism,Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,and Confucianism. (U1LB)6. Analyze how cultural diffusion led to thespread of Christianity throughout the Romanand Byzantine worlds, Islam throughoutsouthwest Asia and Africa, and Buddhismthroughout eastern Asia. (U1LB)7. Explain how political differences createdivisions within world religions, such as theCatholic/Orthodox schism and Sunni/Shi’iteIslam. (U1LB)8. Compare the influence of world religions onsocial structure, included but not limited tothe Hindu Caste System and Confuciussocial preferences.9. Compare pre-Modern political life in theAmericas, West Africa, South Asia, andcredibleevidenceinterpretationexplanationmultipleperspectivesperspectivesourcebelief systemcultural diffusionmissionarymonotheismpolytheismreligionMedieval Periodprimary source2. When you learn to "do" history, youlearn to think critically and solveproblems.3. The study of processes in historyhelp you better evaluate worldevents.4. Religions often spread through tradeand other cultural exchanges.5. People who practiced the samereligion were often connectedthrough political and cultural ties.6. Religions evolved as people withnew ideas from diversebackgrounds approached religiondifferently and divisions emergedwithin them.7. Religion impacted political affairs,served as a unifying cultural/socialforce and sometimes led to conflictand division.8. Empires typically spread because ofpowerful armies and strong leaders.HCPSS Secondary Social Studies Office, 2012 7