grade seven- curriculum frameworks( c a deptof education)（七年级,课程框架(c deptof教育)）.docVIP

History–Social Science Framework Adopted by the State Board of Education on July 14, 2016 Chapter 11 Grade Seven – World History and Geography: Medieval and Early Modern Times How did the distant regions of the world become more interconnected through medieval and early modern times? What were the multiple ways people of different cultures interacted at sites of encounter? What were the effects of their interactions? How did the environment and technological innovations affect the expansion of agriculture, cities, and human population? What impact did human expansion have on the environment? Why did many states and empires gain more power over people and territories over the course of medieval and early modern times? How did major religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism) and cultural systems (Confucianism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment) develop and change over time? How did they spread to multiple cultures? The medieval and early modern periods provide students with opportunities to study the rise and fall of empires, the diffusion of religions and languages, and significant movements of people, ideas, and products. Over this period, the regions of the world became more and more interconnected. Although societies were quite distinct from each other, there were more exchanges of people, products, and ideas in every century. For this reason, world history in this period can be a bewildering catalog of names, places, and events that impacted individual societies, while the larger patterns that affected the world are lost. To avoid this, the focus must be on questions that get at the larger world geographical, historical, economic, and civic patterns. To answer these questions, students study content-rich examples and case studies, rather than surveying all places, names, and events superficially. Students approach history not only as a body of content (such as events, people, ideas, or historical accounts) to be en