A. HISTORICAL INQUIRY AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
Throughout this course, students will:

1. Historical Inquiry: use the historical inquiry process and the concepts of historical thinking when investigating aspects of world history to 1500;
2. Developing Transferable Skills: apply in everyday contexts skills developed through historical investigation, and identify careers in which these skills might be useful.
    

B. EARLY SOCIETIES AND RISING CIVILIZATIONS

1. Early Societies: analyse the evolution of early societies in various parts of the world, including factors that were necessary for their development (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Continuity and Change)
2. Social, Economic, and Political Context: analyse key social, economic, and political structures and/or developments in three or more early societies and emerging cradles of civilization, each from a different region and a different period prior to 1500, and explain their impact on people’s lives (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Historical Perspective)
3. Cooperation, Conflict, and Rising Civilizations: analyse, with reference to specific early societies and emerging cradles of civilization, each from a different region and a different period prior to 1500, how interactions within and between societies contributed to the development of civilizations (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Continuity and Change)
    

C. FLOURISHING SOCIETIES AND CIVILIZATIONS

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:

1. Social, Economic, and Political Context: analyse key social, economic, and political structures and developments in three or more flourishing societies/civilizations, each from a different region and a different period prior to 1500 (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Cause and Consequence)
2. Stability and Expansion: analyse how various factors contributed to the stability, consolidation, and/or expansion of flourishing societies/civilizations from different regions and different periods prior to 1500 (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Continuity and Change)
3. Identity, Citizenship, and Culture: assess the contributions of various individuals and groups to the development of identity, citizenship, and culture in three or more flourishing societies/ civilizations, each from a different region and a different period prior to 1500 (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Historical Perspective)
    

D. CIVILIZATIONS IN DECLINE

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:

1. Social, Economic, and Political Context: explain the role of various social, economic, and political events and developments in the decline of three or more societies/civilizations, each from a different region and different period prior to 1500, and how these factors affected people living in these societies (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Cause and Consequence)
2. Interrelationships: analyse how interrelationships with other societies and with the environment contributed to the decline of three or more societies/civilizations, each from a different region and different period prior to 1500 (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Continuity and Change)
3. Cultural Characteristics and Identity: analyse aspects of culture and identity in three or more societies/ civilizations in decline, each from a different region and different period prior to 1500 (FOCUS ON: Continuity and Change; Historical Perspective)
    

E. THE LEGACY OF CIVILIZATIONS

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:

1. Social, Cultural, and Political Heritage: analyse the socio-economic, cultural, and political legacies of societies/civilizations from three or more regions and from different periods prior to 1500 (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Continuity and Change)
2. The Legacy of Interactions: analyse various types of interactions between societies prior to 1500 and how societies benefited from and were harmed by such interactions (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Historical Perspective)
3. The Fifteenth-Century World: demonstrate an understanding of the general social, economic, and political context in societies in two or more regions of the world in the fifteenth century (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Historical Perspective)