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Course Overview:

Historical Skills: The main historical skills we will focus on in this course are critical analysis, evaluation, crafting a claim/thesis/argument that takes a stance, and defending a claim/thesis/argument with relevant evidence. We will practice these often and you will continue to develop them throughout this course. These skills along with other important skills we will learn and practice in this course such as analyzing multiple perspectives, identifying main ideas, comparing and contrasting, summarizing, and map analysis are applicable not only to the study of history, but to real life.

Content: World History B covers the geographic regions of the Americas and Europe. We will see how the world in 1450 was still comprised of land based empires, but was becoming more connected The overarching essential question for this course is "What are the consequences of connectivity?". Units include Transoceanic Connections, Democratic Revolutions, Industrialization and Urbanization, and Globalization + Current Events (how we grapple with the legacies of the past in our present day by connecting history to current events). .