Unit I: An Introduction to Social Sciences and River Valleys
Introduction to Global History and Geography
What is History?
Archaeology and Anthropology
Geography Awareness
Mesopotamia: The Tigris and Euphrates
Egypt: The Gift of the Nile
India: Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
China: The Huang He

      Unit II: Classical Civilizations
Greeks and Alexander the Great
Romans
Maurya
Gupta
Shang and Zhou
Qin and Han
Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans
Trade Routes (Silk Road/Indian Ocean)

     Unit III: Belief Systems
Animism and Shinto
The Rise of Monotheism: Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam
The Religions of South Asia: Hinduism and Buddhism
East Asian Belief Systems: Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Buddhist Fusion

    Unit IV: The Post-Classical World
Byzantines and Russia
Medieval Europe
Islamic Civilization
Islamic Golden Age
Crusades
T’ang and Song Dynasties
Introduction to Japan

    Unit V: Global Interactions
Japanese Feudalism
Mongols
African Kingdoms and Ibn Battuta
The Plague  The Effects of the Plague
Renaissance and Reformation
Scientific Revolution

    Unit VI: Birth of the Modern World
Rise of Nation-States
Global Absolutism
Ming and Ching
Ottomans and Relationship to Safavids
Mughal India
Aztecs
Incas
New Trade Routes and the Rise of the Commercial Revolution
Age of Exploration
Conquistadors
Colonization and the Latin American Hierarchy
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Introduction to the Enlightenment

    Unit VII: Get Ready for Global I Final
    A Cross-Cultural Comparative Regional Review