Contents Acknowledgments?xiii Introduction: Why Use a Thematic, Document-Based Approach for Teaching World History??1 Why Thematic??2 Why Document Based??3 Meeting Common Core and Other State and National Standards?7 What Are the Long-Term Changes and Recurring Patterns in World History??9 Structure of a Unit?9 Structure of a Lesson?13 Assessment?17 Accounting for Grade Level and Differentiating Instruction?18 Classroom Climate?19 Designing Your Own Thematic Units?22 1.??Forms of Government: What Should Be the Rights and Responsibilities of the Rulers and the Ruled??23 Lesson 1.1: What Are Activists Asking the United Nations to Do About the Murder of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi??24 Lesson 1.2: What Kind of Laws Did King Hammurabi Make for His Subjects??26 Lesson 1.3: How Did Pericles Describe Direct Democracy in Athens??29 Lesson 1.4: How Did Sparta?s Oligarchy Work??31 Lesson 1.5: What Was the Role of the Imperial Monarch in Han Dynasty China??33 Lesson 1.6: How Did the Roman Republic Resemble a Monarchy, an Aristocracy, and a Democracy??35 Lesson 1.
7: How Did Suryavarman II Rule as Devaraja??38 Lesson 1.8: How Did Muawiyah I Govern His Caliphate??40 Lesson 1.9: How Did Louis XIV Create an Absolute Monarchy in France??42 Lesson 1.10: How Did Igbo Women Command Respect in a Stateless Society??45 Lesson 1.11: How Is India?s Democracy Structured??47 Lesson 1.12: How Does Finland Guarantee Social Welfare to Its Citizens??49 Lesson 1.13: How Have Inuit People Practiced Egalitarianism??52 2.??Religion and Society: How Should Belief Systems Influence Our Lives??55 Lesson 2.
1: What Were Albert Einstein?s Arguments for Agnosticism??56 Lesson 2.2: How Is Brahman Described in the Hindu Upanishads??58 Lesson 2.3: How Did Confucius Envision the Ideal Society??60 Lesson 2.4: What Did the Dao De Jing Advise People to Do??63 Lesson 2.5: What Did the Buddha Teach Was the Path to Enlightenment??65 Lesson 2.6: What Did God Command Jewish People to Do in the Torah??67 Lesson 2.7: What Did Jesus Command Christians to Do in the Holy Bible??70 Lesson 2.8: What Did Allah Command Muslims to Do in the Holy Quran??72 3.
??Us vs. Them: Who Is Civilized, and Who Is a Barbarian??75 Lesson 3.1: How Did François Hollande React to ISIS?s Attack on France??76 Lesson 3.2: How Was Sumerian Civilization Different From What Came Before It??78 Lesson 3.3: How Did Alexander the Great Try to Civilize the World??80 Lesson 3.4: Why Did Ancient Romans Blame the Collapse of Their Empire on Barbarians??83 Lesson 3.5: Why Did Portuguese Colonists Portray Africans as Uncivilized??85 Lesson 3.6: How Did Ideas of Civilization Differ in the Ottoman and Austrian Empires??87 Lesson 3.
7: Did Spanish Colonization of the Americas Bring Civilization or Barbarism??89 Lesson 3.8: Why Did Qing Dynasty Chinese See People From Europe as Barbarians??91 Lesson 3.9: How Did Enlightenment Philosophers Redefine Civilization??94 Lesson 3.10: Why Did French People Think They Needed to Civilize ?Inferior Races???96 Lesson 3.11: How Did Meiji Japanese Leaders Define Civilization??99 Lesson 3.12: What Kind of Civilization Did Hitler Envision for the World??101 Lesson 3.13: How Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Describe a Civilized Society??104 4.??Conflict: What Is Worth Fighting For??107 Lesson 4.
1: What Are the Effects of the War in Yemen on Civilians??108 Lesson 4.2: How Did the Greeks Try to Convince the Ionians to Join Their Fight Against the Persians??110 Lesson 4.3: Why Did King A?oka Want to Stop Wars??112 Lesson 4.4: Why Did Hannibal Attack the Roman Empire??115 Lesson 4.5: Why Did the Normans Attack the Anglo-Saxons in the Battle of Hastings??117 Lesson 4.6: How Did Christians Justify the Crusades??119 Lesson 4.7: How Did Napoleon Motivate Soldiers to Fight for Him??121 Lesson 4.8: Why Did King Leopold II Fight for Control of the Congo??123 Lesson 4.
9: Why Did Serbian Nationalists Ignite World War I??126 Lesson 4.10: Why Did Costa Rica Abolish Its Military??128 Lesson 4.11: Why Were Jewish People Willing to Fight for a Country of Their Own??131 Lesson 4.12: Why Have Palestinians Fought Against Israel??133 Lesson 4.13: Why Were Hutus Willing to Kill Tutsis in Rwanda??136 5.??Equality vs. Hierarchy: What Should Be the Balance Between Social Equality and Social Hierarchy??139 Lesson 5.1: How Are Ordinary People in South Sudan Working Together for Justice??140 Lesson 5.
2: How Did Athenian Democrats Justify Slavery??142 Lesson 5.3: What Social Classes Existed in the Maya Empire??144 Lesson 5.4: How Did Mongol Pastoralists Organize Their Nomadic Society??146 Lesson 5.5: How Did the Incan Allyu System Work??149 Lesson 5.6: How Did the Tokugawa Shogunate Practice Feudalism??151 Lesson 5.7: Why Did Karl Marx Envision a Classless Society??153 Lesson 5.8: How Did White South Africans Justify Apartheid Rule??156 Lesson 5.9: How Did Dalit People Seek Equality in India??158 Lesson 5.
10: How Did the Khmer Rouge Justify Violence in the Name of Equality??161 6.??Economics, Technology, and the Environment: How Should People Get the Resources They Need??165 Lesson 6.1: What Did Greta Thunberg Ask World Leaders to Do About Climate Change??166 Lesson 6.2: How Have Australian Aboriginal People Interacted With Their Environment??168 Lesson 6.3: What Were the Causes and Effects of the Neolithic Revolution??170 Lesson 6.4: How Did Ancient Egyptians Use the Nile River to Gain Resources??172 Lesson 6.5: How Did Trade Promote Cultural Diffusion Along the Silk Road??174 Lesson 6.6: How Did the Mali Empire Profit From Trade in Gold and Salt??176 Lesson 6.
7: How Did Leonardo da Vinci Envision the Ideal City During the Renaissance??178 Lesson 6.8: How Did the Netherlands Profit From Colonization??180 Lesson 6.9: How Did Aztec Technology Aid Agriculture??183 Lesson 6.10: How Did Enslaved Africans Experience the Transatlantic Slave Trade??185 Lesson 6.11: How Was Free-Market Capitalism Supposed to Work??187 Lesson 6.12: What Were the Goals and Results of Mao Zedong?s Command Economy??189 Lesson 6.13: What Were the Effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster??192 7.??Gender: What Should Be the Roles of Women and Men in Society??195 Lesson 7.
1: How Are Transgender People Challenging Assumptions About Women and Men??196 Lesson 7.2: Why Did Roman Women Protest Being Taxed??198 Lesson 7.3: What Role Did Ibn Rushd Think Women Should Play in Islamic Society??200 Lesson 7.4: How Did Queen Elizabeth I Defend Her Leadership??202 Lesson 7.5: How Did Queen Nzinga Resist Portuguese Colonizers??204 Lesson 7.6: How Did Catherine the Great Present Herself as a Leader??206 Lesson 7.7: What Were Mary Wollstonecraft?s Arguments for Women?s Rights??209 Lesson 7.8: Why Did Qiu Jin Argue for Chinese Women?s Freedoms??211 Lesson 7.
9: Why Did Some Women Oppose Getting the Right to Vote??213 Lesson 7.10: How Did Käthe Kollwitz Work for Peace Through Art??216 Lesson 7.11: How Did Huda Sha?arawi Argue for Feminist Nationalism in Egypt??218 Lesson 7.12: How Did Una Marson Participate in Worldwide Struggles Against Sexism and Racism??220 8.??Resistance, Revolution, and Reform: How Should People Bring About Political and Social Change??223 Lesson 8.1: How Did Egyptians Use Social Media and Protest to Bring About Political Change??224 Lesson 8.2: How Did Julius Caesar Gain Control of Rome??226 Lesson 8.3: How Did the Safavid Empire Use Diplomacy to Accomplish Its Goals??228 Lesson 8.
4: How Did Martin Luther Bring About the Protestant Reformation??231 Lesson 8.5: Why Did Maximilien Robespierre Believe Violence Was Necessary to Achieve the Goals of the French Revolution??233 Lesson 8.6: How Did Haitians End Slavery and Gain Independence From France??236 Lesson 8.7: How Did Southeast Asians Avoid Rulers Who Wanted to Control Them??238 Lesson 8.8: How Did Gandhi Use Nonviolent Resistance Against British Colonization??241 Lesson 8.9: Why Did Emiliano Zapata Think Land Reform Was Necessary for Mexico??243 Lesson 8.10: How Did Joseph Stalin Try to Revolutionize Soviet Society??246 Lesson 8.11: Why Did Algerians Believe That Violence Was Necessary to Decolonize Their Country??249 Lesson 8.
12: How Did Rigoberta Menchú Resist the Human Rights Abuses of the Guatemalan Government??251 Lesson 8.13: How Did Václav Havel Spread Dissent Against the Totalitarian Regime in Czechoslovakia??253 9.??Continuity and Change: What Are the Long-Term Changes and Recurring Patterns in World History??257 Lesson 9.1: How Did Human Societies Begin??257 Lesson 9.2: How Did Early Civilizations and Pastoral Peoples Emerge in the Fifth to the First Millennia BCE??257 Lesson 9.3: How Did Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires Emerge in the First Millennium BCE??258 Lesson 9.4: How Did Zones of Exchange and Encounter Expand in the First Millennium CE??258 Lesson 9.5: How Did Hemispheric Interactions Intensify in the Second Millennium CE??258 Lesson 9.
6: Why Did the First Global Age Emerge in the 15th to 18th Centuries??258 Lesson 9.7: What Were the Causes and Effects of Revolutions in the 18th to 20th Centuries??259 Lesson 9.8: What Were the Crises and Achievements of the First Half of the 20th Century??259 Lesson 9.9: What Have Been the Promises and Paradoxes of the Second Half of the 20th C.