Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History

  



  1. Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History Textbook
  2. Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History Timeline
  3. Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History Dbq
  4. Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History On This Day

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This model curriculum groups instructional units into three categories. The criterion for these categories is the scale in time, geographical space, and subject matter of the topics to be explored. This system has been designed to guide teachers and students in the study of the past on a variety of scales, from broad, global changes to developments that occurred within regions, civilizations, or nations. Teachers may choose to introduce students to an entire Big Era in a few class periods by focusing on the sweeping changes of the era. Or, they may devote a greater number of class days to an era, using several teaching units in all three categories of scale to examine the era in finer detail. Teachers may tailor class time spent on a Big Era to their pedagogical strengths and interests and to state or local content standards.. THIS IS A TEST, THIS IS A TEST. For more discussion of scale in history, see Why an Integrative World History Curriculum in the Foundations of This Curriculum section.

All teaching units follow standard specifications for organization and design. They are listed and described below, as well as in the History, Geography, and Time, Big Eras 1-9, and Past and Future sections of the curriculum. All teaching units have been formatted in PDF to facilitate printing and duplicating of materials, especially Student Handouts. Users must download and install Adobe Acrobat Reader to have access to the teaching units.

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Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History Textbook


Panorama Teaching Units

Each of the nine Big Eras of world history, plus the History, Geography, and Time and the Past and Future sections, offers one Panorama Teaching Unit. Panorama units address very large-scale developments in world history. Each one also includes a PowerPoint Overview Presentation. Teachers and students may view the overview presentations in HTML or download them into their own PowerPoint programs.

The Panorama units provide a model for teaching an entire era of world history in a few lessons taking no more than a week or two of class time. In this way, students may learn about large patterns of change in an era. Panorama units also serve teachers who wish, or are obligated by local and state standards, to devote more class time to particular eras than to others. The Panorama Teaching Units are tailored to the time frames of the Big Era units. This means that the unit for Big Era One (13 billion - 200,000 years ago) encompasses a much larger time frame than does the unit for Big Era Nine (1945 - present).

Landscape Teaching Units

Each Big Era, plus the History, Geography, and Time and the Past and Future sections, offers from two to seven Landscape Teaching Units. Landscape units focus on relatively large-scale developments in world history, though not as broad in subject matter as the Panorama units. All Landscape units have transregional, cross-cultural, or comparative elements. Teachers may use Landscape units flexibly, depending on their interests, school curriculum requirements, and instructional time available.

Closeup Teaching Units

Multiple Closeup Teaching Units will be developed for each of the Big Eras. Closeup units address topics in world history that are relatively more restricted in time, space, and subject matter than either Panorama or Landscape units. Some of these units will address topics that embrace more than one Big Era. Teachers may choose among Closeup units to probe more deeply into specific aspects of world history. Closeup units will be progressively added to the curriculum. We invite history and social studies educators to submit Closeup units for inclusion in the curriculum. Go to Contact Us on the Home Page for more information on submitting Closeup Teaching Units.

The table below provides links to teaching units on the site or under development.

Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History Timeline

Panorama Teaching Units
Closeup Teaching Units
History, Geography, & Time
Teaching Unit 0.1
Getting Our Bearings: Maps of time, space and history
PowerPoint Feature!
Teaching Unit 0.2
Human history and big geography
Big Era One
Humans in the Universe
13 Billion - 200,000 Years ago
Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 1.1
The horizon of human history
13,000,000,000 - 200,000 years ago
Teaching Unit 1.2
Human ancestors in Africa and beyond
7,000,000 - 200,000 years ago

Big Era Two
Human Beings Almost Everywhere
200,000 - 10,000 Years Ago

Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 2.1
Human beings around the world
100,000 - 10,000 years ago
Teaching Unit 2.2
Language: What difference does it make?
200,000 - 40,000 BCE
Big Era Three
Farming and the Emergence of Complex Societies
10,000 - 1000 BCE
In Development
Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 3.1
Domesticating plants and animals
10,000 - 4000 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.2
Farmers around the world
10,000 - 1500 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.3
River valleys and the development of complex societies in Afroeurasia
4000 - 1500 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.4
Migrations and militarism across Afroeurasia
2000 - 1000 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.5
Early complex societies in the Americas
1800 - 500 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.6
People on the move in Australia and the Pacific basin
10,000 - 1000 BCE 500 BCE
Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict
Big Era Four
Expanding Networks of Exchange and Encounter
1200 BCE - 500 CE
In Development
Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 4.1
From the Mediterranean to India: Patterns of power and trade
1200 - 600 BCE
Teaching Unit 4.2
The expansion of complex society in East Asia
1200 - 300 BCE
Teaching Unit 4.3
Migration and change in Africa south of the Sahara
1200 - 200 CE
Teaching Unit 4.4
From the Mediterranean to India: An age of Greek and Persian power
600 - 200 BCE
Teaching Unit 4.5
Giant empires of Afroeurasia
300 BCE - 200 CE

Teaching Unit 4.6
Empires and city-states of the Americas
800 BCE - 500 CE
Teaching Unit 4.7
Long-distance migrations in the tropical seas
500 BCE - 500 CE

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.2.1
Belief Systems in China:
Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.4.1
The Budding of Buddhism

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.4.2
Pressured by Persia: The Persian Empire

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.1
Roman Art and Architecture
PowerPoint Feature!

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.2
Roman Slavery
PowerPoint Feature!

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.3
Women’s Life in Ancient Rome
PowerPoint Feature!


Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.

Big Era Five
Patterns of Interregional Unity
300 - 1500 CE
Panorama Teaching Unit

Teaching Unit 5.1
Centuries of upheaval in Afroeurasia
300 - 600 CE
Teaching Unit 5.2
Afroeurasia and the rise of Islam
600 - 1000 CE
Teaching Unit 5.3
Consolidation of the trans-hemispheric network
1000 - 1250 CE
Teaching Unit 5.4
The Mongol Moment
1200- 1400 CE
Teaching Unit 5.5
Calamities and recoveries
1300-1500 CE

Teaching Unit 5.6
Spheres of interaction in the Americas
300 - 1500 CE

Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.2.1
Belief Systems in China:
Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism

Closeup Teaching Unit 5.3.1
West African Geography, Climate, and History
PowerPoint Feature!

Closeup Teaching Unit 5.5.1
Coping with catastrophe
The Black Death of the fourteenth century
1330-1355


Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.

Big Era Six
The Great Global Convergence
1400 - 1800 CE


Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 6.1
Oceanic ventures and the joining of the continents
1400 - 1550 CE
Teaching Unit 6.2
The Columbian Exchange and its consequences: biological, social, and cultural
1400 - 1650 CE
Teaching Unit 6.3
Rulers with guns: the rise of powerful states
1400 - 1800 CE
Teaching Unit 6.4
The global economy takes shape
1500 - 1800 CE
Teaching Unit 6.5
The Making of the Atlantic Rim
1500 - 1800 CE
Teaching Unit 6.6
The Scientific Revolution
1500 - 1800 CE
Teaching Unit 6.7
The long reach of the major religions
1500 - 1800 CE
Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict
Closeup Teaching Unit 6.6.1
Leaders of the Enlightenment
PowerPoint Feature!
Closeup Teaching Unit 6.7.1
The Protestant Reformation
PowerPoint Feature!

Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.

Big Era Seven
Industrialization and Its Consequences
1750 - 1914 CE
In Development
Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 7.1
The Industrial Revolution as a world event
1750 - 1840 CE
Teaching Unit 7.2
The Atlantic revolutions as a world event
1750 - 1830 CE
Teaching Unit 7.3
People, Power, and Ideology: A whole new world
1830 - 1900 CE
Teaching Unit 7.4
Humans in a hurry: nineteenth-century migrations
1830 - 1900 CE
Teaching Unit 7.5
The experience of colonialism
1850 - 1914 CE
Teaching Unit 7.6
New identities: nationalism and religion
1850 - 1914 CE
Closeup Teaching Unit 6.6.1
Leaders of the Enlightenment
PowerPoint Feature!
Closeup Teaching Unit 7.1.20
Living Rooms
1800-1900
Closeup Teaching Unit 7.5.1
Resistance to Imperialism in Africa, Asia, and the Americas
1880-1914

Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.

Big Era Eight
A Half Century of Crisis
1900 - 1950 CE
Panorama Teaching Unit Teaching Unit 8.1
The causes and global consequences of World War I
1900-1920 CE
Teaching Unit 8.2
The search for peace and stability in the 1920s and 1930s
1920-1930 CE
Teaching Unit 8.3
The Great Depression
1929-1939 CE
Teaching Unit 8.4
Social change and resistance in colonial empires
1914–1950 CE
Teaching Unit 8.5
The causes and global consequences of World War II
1939–1945 CE
Teaching Unit 8.6
Revolutions in science and technology
1900-1950 CE
Teaching Unit 8.7
Environmental change: the great acceleration
1900-1950 CE
Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict
Big Era Nine
Paradoxes of Global Acceleration
1945 - present CE
Panorama Teaching Unit
Teaching Unit 9.1
World politics and the global economy after World War II
Teaching Unit 9.2
The two big powers and their Cold War
1945-1990 CE
Teaching Unit 9.3
A multitude of sovereign states
1945-1975
Teaching Unit 9.4
The scope of wealth and poverty
1945-present
Teaching Unit 9.5
The world at warp speed: science, technology, and the computer revolution
1970-present
Teaching Unit 9.6
Population explosion and environmental change
1945-present
Teaching Unit 9.7
Globe-girdling cultural trends
1980-present
Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict
Closeup Teaching Unit 9.7.1
1968: A Year of Global Protest
Past and Future
Reflecting on the Past, Thinking about the Future
In Development

This model curriculum groups instructional units into three categories. The criterion for these categories is the scale in time, geographical space, and subject matter of the topics to be explored. This system has been designed to guide teachers and students in the study of the past on a variety of scales, from broad, global changes to developments that occurred within regions, civilizations, or nations. Teachers may choose to introduce students to an entire Big Era in a few class periods by focusing on the sweeping changes of the era. Or, they may devote a greater number of class days to an era, using several teaching units in all three categories of scale to examine the era in finer detail. Teachers may tailor class time spent on a Big Era to their pedagogical strengths and interests and to state or local content standards.. THIS IS A TEST, THIS IS A TEST. For more discussion of scale in history, see Why an Integrative World History Curriculum in the Foundations of This Curriculum section.

All teaching units follow standard specifications for organization and design. They are listed and described below, as well as in the History, Geography, and Time, Big Eras 1-9, and Past and Future sections of the curriculum. All teaching units have been formatted in PDF to facilitate printing and duplicating of materials, especially Student Handouts. Users must download and install Adobe Acrobat Reader to have access to the teaching units.


History

Panorama Teaching Units

Each of the nine Big Eras of world history, plus the History, Geography, and Time and the Past and Future sections, offers one Panorama Teaching Unit. Panorama units address very large-scale developments in world history. Each one also includes a PowerPoint Overview Presentation. Teachers and students may view the overview presentations in HTML or download them into their own PowerPoint programs.

The Panorama units provide a model for teaching an entire era of world history in a few lessons taking no more than a week or two of class time. In this way, students may learn about large patterns of change in an era. Panorama units also serve teachers who wish, or are obligated by local and state standards, to devote more class time to particular eras than to others. The Panorama Teaching Units are tailored to the time frames of the Big Era units. This means that the unit for Big Era One (13 billion - 200,000 years ago) encompasses a much larger time frame than does the unit for Big Era Nine (1945 - present).

Landscape Teaching Units

Each Big Era, plus the History, Geography, and Time and the Past and Future sections, offers from two to seven Landscape Teaching Units. Landscape units focus on relatively large-scale developments in world history, though not as broad in subject matter as the Panorama units. All Landscape units have transregional, cross-cultural, or comparative elements. Teachers may use Landscape units flexibly, depending on their interests, school curriculum requirements, and instructional time available.

Closeup Teaching Units

Multiple Closeup Teaching Units will be developed for each of the Big Eras. Closeup units address topics in world history that are relatively more restricted in time, space, and subject matter than either Panorama or Landscape units. Some of these units will address topics that embrace more than one Big Era. Teachers may choose among Closeup units to probe more deeply into specific aspects of world history. Closeup units will be progressively added to the curriculum. We invite history and social studies educators to submit Closeup units for inclusion in the curriculum. Go to Contact Us on the Home Page for more information on submitting Closeup Teaching Units.

Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History Dbq

The table below provides links to teaching units on the site or under development.

Unit 1: Early Chinamac's History On This Day


Panorama Teaching Units
Closeup Teaching Units
History, Geography, & Time
Teaching Unit 0.1
Getting Our Bearings: Maps of time, space and history
PowerPoint Feature!
Teaching Unit 0.2
Human history and big geography
Big Era One
Humans in the Universe
13 Billion - 200,000 Years ago
Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 1.1
The horizon of human history
13,000,000,000 - 200,000 years ago
Teaching Unit 1.2
Human ancestors in Africa and beyond
7,000,000 - 200,000 years ago

Big Era Two
Human Beings Almost Everywhere
200,000 - 10,000 Years Ago

Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 2.1
Human beings around the world
100,000 - 10,000 years ago
Teaching Unit 2.2
Language: What difference does it make?
200,000 - 40,000 BCE
Big Era Three
Farming and the Emergence of Complex Societies
10,000 - 1000 BCE
In Development
Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 3.1
Domesticating plants and animals
10,000 - 4000 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.2
Farmers around the world
10,000 - 1500 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.3
River valleys and the development of complex societies in Afroeurasia
4000 - 1500 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.4
Migrations and militarism across Afroeurasia
2000 - 1000 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.5
Early complex societies in the Americas
1800 - 500 BCE
Teaching Unit 3.6
People on the move in Australia and the Pacific basin
10,000 - 1000 BCE 500 BCE
Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict
Big Era Four
Expanding Networks of Exchange and Encounter
1200 BCE - 500 CE
In Development
Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 4.1
From the Mediterranean to India: Patterns of power and trade
1200 - 600 BCE
Teaching Unit 4.2
The expansion of complex society in East Asia
1200 - 300 BCE
Teaching Unit 4.3
Migration and change in Africa south of the Sahara
1200 - 200 CE
Teaching Unit 4.4
From the Mediterranean to India: An age of Greek and Persian power
600 - 200 BCE
Teaching Unit 4.5
Giant empires of Afroeurasia
300 BCE - 200 CE

Teaching Unit 4.6
Empires and city-states of the Americas
800 BCE - 500 CE
Teaching Unit 4.7
Long-distance migrations in the tropical seas
500 BCE - 500 CE

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.2.1
Belief Systems in China:
Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.4.1
The Budding of Buddhism

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.4.2
Pressured by Persia: The Persian Empire

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.1
Roman Art and Architecture
PowerPoint Feature!

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.2
Roman Slavery
PowerPoint Feature!

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.5.3
Women’s Life in Ancient Rome
PowerPoint Feature!


Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.

Big Era Five
Patterns of Interregional Unity
300 - 1500 CE
Panorama Teaching Unit

Teaching Unit 5.1
Centuries of upheaval in Afroeurasia
300 - 600 CE
Teaching Unit 5.2
Afroeurasia and the rise of Islam
600 - 1000 CE
Teaching Unit 5.3
Consolidation of the trans-hemispheric network
1000 - 1250 CE
Teaching Unit 5.4
The Mongol Moment
1200- 1400 CE
Teaching Unit 5.5
Calamities and recoveries
1300-1500 CE

Teaching Unit 5.6
Spheres of interaction in the Americas
300 - 1500 CE

Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict

Closeup Teaching Unit 4.2.1
Belief Systems in China:
Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism

Closeup Teaching Unit 5.3.1
West African Geography, Climate, and History
PowerPoint Feature!

Closeup Teaching Unit 5.5.1
Coping with catastrophe
The Black Death of the fourteenth century
1330-1355


Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.

Big Era Six
The Great Global Convergence
1400 - 1800 CE


Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 6.1
Oceanic ventures and the joining of the continents
1400 - 1550 CE
Teaching Unit 6.2
The Columbian Exchange and its consequences: biological, social, and cultural
1400 - 1650 CE
Teaching Unit 6.3
Rulers with guns: the rise of powerful states
1400 - 1800 CE
Teaching Unit 6.4
The global economy takes shape
1500 - 1800 CE
Teaching Unit 6.5
The Making of the Atlantic Rim
1500 - 1800 CE
Teaching Unit 6.6
The Scientific Revolution
1500 - 1800 CE
Teaching Unit 6.7
The long reach of the major religions
1500 - 1800 CE
Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict
Closeup Teaching Unit 6.6.1
Leaders of the Enlightenment
PowerPoint Feature!
Closeup Teaching Unit 6.7.1
The Protestant Reformation
PowerPoint Feature!

Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.

Big Era Seven
Industrialization and Its Consequences
1750 - 1914 CE
In Development
Panorama Teaching UnitTeaching Unit 7.1
The Industrial Revolution as a world event
1750 - 1840 CE
Teaching Unit 7.2
The Atlantic revolutions as a world event
1750 - 1830 CE
Teaching Unit 7.3
People, Power, and Ideology: A whole new world
1830 - 1900 CE
Teaching Unit 7.4
Humans in a hurry: nineteenth-century migrations
1830 - 1900 CE
Teaching Unit 7.5
The experience of colonialism
1850 - 1914 CE
Teaching Unit 7.6
New identities: nationalism and religion
1850 - 1914 CE
Closeup Teaching Unit 6.6.1
Leaders of the Enlightenment
PowerPoint Feature!
Closeup Teaching Unit 7.1.20
Living Rooms
1800-1900
Closeup Teaching Unit 7.5.1
Resistance to Imperialism in Africa, Asia, and the Americas
1880-1914

Note: documents in Powerpoint format (PPT) require Microsoft Viewer, download powerpoint.

Big Era Eight
A Half Century of Crisis
1900 - 1950 CE
Panorama Teaching Unit Teaching Unit 8.1
The causes and global consequences of World War I
1900-1920 CE
Teaching Unit 8.2
The search for peace and stability in the 1920s and 1930s
1920-1930 CE
Teaching Unit 8.3
The Great Depression
1929-1939 CE
Teaching Unit 8.4
Social change and resistance in colonial empires
1914–1950 CE
Teaching Unit 8.5
The causes and global consequences of World War II
1939–1945 CE
Teaching Unit 8.6
Revolutions in science and technology
1900-1950 CE
Teaching Unit 8.7
Environmental change: the great acceleration
1900-1950 CE
Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict
Big Era Nine
Paradoxes of Global Acceleration
1945 - present CE
Panorama Teaching Unit
Teaching Unit 9.1
World politics and the global economy after World War II
Teaching Unit 9.2
The two big powers and their Cold War
1945-1990 CE
Teaching Unit 9.3
A multitude of sovereign states
1945-1975
Teaching Unit 9.4
The scope of wealth and poverty
1945-present
Teaching Unit 9.5
The world at warp speed: science, technology, and the computer revolution
1970-present
Teaching Unit 9.6
Population explosion and environmental change
1945-present
Teaching Unit 9.7
Globe-girdling cultural trends
1980-present
Closeup Teaching Unit 3.2.5
Korea: From Calm to Conflict
Closeup Teaching Unit 9.7.1
1968: A Year of Global Protest
Past and Future
Reflecting on the Past, Thinking about the Future
In Development