Michigan K-12 Standards for Social Studies: High School World History and Geography
6.1.1 WHG ERA 4: EXPANDING AND INTENSIFIED HEMISPHERIC INTERACTIONS, 300 TO 1500 CE
4.1 Global or Cross-Temporal Expectations
Analyze important hemispheric interactions and temporal developments during an era of increasing regional power, religious expansion, and the collapse of some powerful empires.
4.1.1 Growth and Interactions of World Religions – analyze the significance of the growth of and interactions between world religions.
4.1.2 Intensifying Trade Networks and Contacts – compare and contrast the development, interdependence, specialization, and importance of interregional land-based and sea-based trading systems both within and between societies.
4.2 Interregional or Comparative Expectations
Analyze and compare important hemispheric interactions and cross-regional developments, including the growth and consequences of an interregional system of communication, trade, and culture exchange during an era of increasing regional power and religious expansion.
4.2.1 Growth of Islam and Dar al-Islam (a country, territory, land, or abode where Muslim sovereignty prevails) – explain the significance of Islam in an interconnected Afro-Eurasia.
4.2.2 Unification of Eurasia under the Mongols – analyze the significance of Mongol rule in Afro-Eurasia and the impact of the Mongol Empire’s disintegration.
4.2.3 Spheres of Interaction and Influence in the Americas – compare and contrast the diverse characteristics and interactions of peoples in the Americas.
WHG ERA 5 – THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE, 15TH TO 18TH CENTURIES
5.1 Global or Cross-Temporal Expectations
Analyze the global impact of and significant developments caused by transoceanic travel and the linking of all the major areas of the world by the 18th century.
5.1.1 Emerging Global System – differentiate between the global systems of trade, migration, and political power from those in the previous era.
5.1.2 Diffusion of World Religions – evaluate the impact of the diffusion of world religions and belief systems on social, political, cultural, and economic systems.
5.2 Interregional or Comparative Expectations
Evaluate the impact of the global convergence on interregional developments and interactions in various contexts.
5.2.1 Cultural Encounters and the Columbian Exchange – explain the demographic, environmental, and political consequences of European oceanic travel and conquest.
5.2.2 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade – analyze the causes and development of the Atlantic trade system with respect to the capture and sale of Africans, the creation of the gun-slave cycle, the Middle Passage, and forced migration of Africans to the Americas, the establishment of the plantation complex, and the rise of slave resistance in the New World.
5.2.3 Afro-Eurasian Empires – compare and contrast the different ways governments expanded or centralized control across various parts of Afro-Eurasia, and analyze the consequences of these changes.
WHG ERA 6 – AN AGE OF GLOBAL REVOLUTIONS, 18TH CENTURY-1914
6.1 Global or Cross-Temporal Expectations
Evaluate the causes, characteristics, and consequences of revolutions of the intellectual, political, and economic structures in an era of increasing global trade and consolidations of power.
6.1.1 Global Revolutions – explain the characteristics, extent, and impact of the global revolutions, including but not limited to changes in economic and political systems, and shifts in relative political and military power.
6.1.2 Worldwide Migrations and Population Changes – analyze the causes and consequences of shifts in world population and major patterns of long-distance migrations, including the impact of industrialism, imperialism, changing diets, and scientific advances.
6.1.3 Increasing Global Interconnections – describe the increasing global interconnections and new global networks that resulted in the spread of major innovations in governance, economic systems, cultural traits, technologies, and commodities.
6.2 Interregional or Comparative Expectations
Analyze and compare the interregional patterns of nationalism, state building, social and economic reform, and imperialism.
6.2.1 Comparing Political Revolutions and/or Independence Movements – compare and contrast the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and one other revolution or independence movement that occurred in a region external to Europe from the standpoint of political, economic, and social causes and consequences.
6.2.2 Growth of Nationalism and Nation-States – compare and contrast the rise of nation-states in a western and non-western context.
6.2.3 Industrialization – compare and contrast the causes and consequences of industrialization around the world, including social, economic, and environmental impacts.
6.2.4 Imperialism – analyze the political, economic, and social causes and consequences of imperialism in different regions.
WHG ERA 7 – GLOBAL CRISIS AND ACHIEVEMENT, 1900-Present
7.1 Global or Cross-Temporal Expectations
Analyze the impact of changes in global balances of military, political, economic, and technological power throughout the 20th century and to the present.
7.1.1 Power and Resistance – describe the global reconfigurations and restructuring of political and economic relationships throughout the 20th century and to the present, including state-organized efforts to expand power and the role of resistance movements against such efforts.
7.1.2 Global Conflict – compare and contrast the nature, extent, and impact of modern warfare with warfare in the previous eras, including the roles of ideology, technology, and civilians.
7.1.3 Genocide in the 20th Century – differentiate genocide from other atrocities and forms of mass killing and explain its extent, causes, and consequences in the 20th century and to the present.
7.1.4 Technological, Scientific, and Cultural Exchanges – describe significant technological innovations and scientific breakthroughs in transportation, communication, medicine, and warfare and analyze how they both benefited and imperiled humanity.
7.2 Interregional or Comparative Expectations
Assess the interregional causes and consequences of the global wars, revolutions, and independence movements during this era.
7.2.1 World War I – explain the causes, characteristics, and long-term consequences of World War I, including the major decisions of the Versailles Treaty.
7.2.2 Interwar Period – analyze the transformations that shaped world societies between World War I and World War II, including the economic depression, and the spread of fascism, communism, and nationalism in different world regions.
7.2.3 World War II – analyze the causes, course, characteristics, and consequences of World War II, including the emergence the United States and Soviet Union as global superpowers.
7.2.4 Cold War Conflicts – analyze the causes and consequences of major Cold War conflicts, including the global reconfigurations and restructuring of political and economic relationships in the post-World War II era.
7.2.5 Revolution, Decolonization, and Democratization – evaluate the causes and consequences of revolutionary and independence movements in different world regions.
7.2.6 Case Studies of Genocide – analyze the development, enactment, and consequences of, as well as the international community’s responses to, the Holocaust (or Shoah), Armenian Genocide, and at least one other genocide.