Potential Basic Curriculum Outline for the two History of Western Civilization Courses

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Ancient & Medieval History of Western Civilization, Grade 9

Unit I: Origins – Pre-Classical River Valley Civilizations

A. Paleolothic Era

B. Neolithic Era

C. Pre-Classical River Valley Civilizations

Unit II: Ancient Greece

A. Pre-Classical Greece

B. Classical Greece

C. Alexander the Great & Hellenism

Unit III: Ancient Rome (753 B. C. – A. D. 476)

A. The Roman Republic

B. The Rise of the Christian Faith

C. The Roman Empire

Unit IV: The Middle Ages (A. D. 476 – 1492)

A. The Dark Ages

B. The High Middle Ages

C. The Late Middle Ages

D. The Renaissance

Modern (European) History of Western Civilization, Grade 10

Unit I: Early Modern Europe (A. D. 1453 – 1648)

A. The Renaissance Papacy

B. The Protestant Reformation

C. The Catholic Counter-Reformation

D. The Age of Discovery

E. Conquistadors

F. The Scientific Revolution

Unit II: Absolutism, Enlightenment, Revolution, & Napoleon (A. D. 1648 – 1815)

A. Absolutism & Louis XIV

B. Enlightenment Philosophy & John Locke

C. Political Revolution in British North America

D. Social Revolution in France

E. The Napoleonic Wars

Unit III: The Nineteenth Century (A. D. 1815 – 1914)

A. The Concert of Europe

B. The Industrial Revolution

C. Socialism

D. Romanticism

E. Nationalism

F. European Imperialism

Unit IV: The Twentieth & Twenty-First Centuries (A. D. 1914 – the Present)

A. World War I

B. The Rise of Totalitarianism

C. World War II

D. The Cold War

E. The Contemporary World

Note: Non-Western Cultures & Civilizations covered at Key Points of Contact with the West. For example, the Achaemenid Persian Empire is a part of the Greco-Persian Wars, taught in Ancient & Medieval History, Unit II-B, Classical Greece. Also, the end of Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration is part of Modern European History, Unit III-F. European Imperialism.