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Paradigm World History Curriculum

Paradigm's World History studies the fifteen basic components of cultures: agriculture, architecture, communication, discoveries, dominant personalities, education familites, food, government, industry, energy, military, religion, sports, and transportation. .It has six chapters of text and six companion student activity books and covers from 5000BC to 2011AD.

It is available in printed format.

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Like the other Paradigm courses, world history is methodically formatted in a way that helps with reading comprehension and reading to find answers.

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People Places and Events of World History Curriculum
People Places and Events of World History Full Course Kit

Publisher: Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum

Topics covered in each chapter of Paradigm People Places and Events of World History include:

  • Chapter 1—5000 BC-1200 BC
    Where it all began; What they built, wore, and ate; Industry; War; Literature; Sources of energy; Wheels; Symbols, Leaders; Fun; Math; Astronomy; Pyramids; Tribes; Families; Search for God; Huts and castles; Chariots; Conquerors; Terraces; Wind Power; Oceans; Travel; Early America; Ancient Africa.
  • Chapter 2—1200 BC-1000 AD
    Ancient Greek government, clothing, and families; Religion of ancient Mexico; Bronze Age food and temples; Barbaric Assyrian armies; and slave labor; Military engineers and secret tunnels; Roads, highways, and pictographs; Buddha, Jesus, and Confucius; Olympic games; Phoenician ships; Romans in Gaul and England; The burning of Rome; Celtic culture; Jewish patriots in; Roman Military tactics in Gaul; Rise of India; Alexander the Great; Cisero and Virgil; Vesuvius and Pompeii; Inca Roads; gladiators; Ptolemy’s maps.
  • Chapter 3—500 BC-600 AD
    Caesar Constantine; Christianity’s origin, Bible, and persecution; Buddhist temples; German tillage; Dancing and music; Great Wall of China; Chariot races; ships, sails, and oceans; St. Patrick; Muhammad; Japanese food; Byzantine church domes; Anglo-Saxons; North American Indians; Chinese silk; Irish curraghs; Atila the Hun; Legends and sagas; Europe’s Dark Ages.
  • Chapter 4—632 AD-1675 AD
    The Middle Ages; Charlemagne; Gauls and Franks; the Crusades, Islam, and the Dome of the Rock; Genghis Khan; Marco Polo; American Pyramids; Hohokam life; Dukes; Cathedrals; Settlements in North America; The Magna Carta; King Arthur, Dante, and Thomas Aquinas; Status quo vs new ideas; John Knox and Queen Mary; Martin Luther and Protestantism; John Wycliffe’s Bible; Cliff and tepee homes; Spanish Conquistadors; Christopher Columbus; Hernan Cortes; Montezuma; Guttenberg’s press; The Invincible Armada; Galileo; Church reformers; Gunpowder; Magellan; William Tyndale; John Calvin’s model city; Catholic opposition to Protestant reformation.
  • Chapter 5—1400 AD-1900AD
    Queen Elizabeth I; John Bunyan’s; John Wesley, George Whitfield, and the Great Awakening; Spanish conquest in America; Puritans, Pilgrims, and the Mayflower; Isaac Newton; Johannes Kepler; Joan of Arc; African slaves; William Shakespeare; The King James Bible; Michelangelo and the Sistien Chapel; Raffaello Sanzio; Leonardo Da Vinci; John Milton; George Handel’s “Messiah”; La Salle; Thomas Jefferson; the U.S. Declaration of Independence; Napoleon Bonaparte; Karl Marx; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; the American Civil War; William Carey; The Salvation Army; Charles Spurgeon; feathers and beavers; Louis Pasteur; The Industrial Revolution; Factories; Free markets; George Washington; Patrick Henry; Simon Bolivar; George Washington Carver’s peanuts; Ludwig van Beethoven; Von Goethe; Benjamin Franklin; Michael Faraday; Submarines; Steam ships; the Suez Canal; The first telephones; Clara Barton; Florence Nightingale; William Wilberforce; Captain Cook.
  • Chapter 6—1800 AD-2011 AD
    Socialism, Fascism, and Communism; Hitler, Lenin, Wilson, Nazi Party; Boy and Girl Scouts; Gandhi; Islam, Muhammad; Gideon Bibles; Fashions; Railroads; Thomas Edison and the light bulb; World War I and World War II; Winston Chruchill; Allied Forces; Pear Harbor; Axis Powers; General Douglas MacArthur; Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Great Depression; The Dust Bowl; Hollywood; Albert Einstein; Spies and traitors; Henry Ford’s Auto; the Wright Brother’s airplane; Radio waves; The Iron Curtain; Cameras; Man on the moon; Nations and alliances; the United Nations; Billy Graham; Mother Teresa; Princess Diana; Rienhard Bonnke; Burgers soda pop; Fast food; Television, laptops, iPhones, and MP3 players; Islamic attacks; Pop, Rock, and Gospel music; Sputnik; John Wayne; Ronald Reagan; Margaret Thatcher; Barrack Obama; Where we are and where we are going.

The Paradigm People Places and Events of World History full course set in print includes:

  • One set of Text Booklets for Chapters 1-6 pac76364TBS
  • One set of Activity Booklets for Chapters 1-6 pac76370ABS
  • One Teacher's Resource Kit with CD for Chapters 1-6 pac76376

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Paradigm World History Text Booklet Set
World History Text Booklet Set

Publisher: Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum

The People Places and Events of World History Text Booklet Set includes one of each of the text booklets for Chapters 1 to 6 for the extra student.

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Paradigm World Activity Booklet Set
People Places and Events of World History Activity Booklet Set

Publisher: Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum

The Activity Booklet Set includes one of each of the activity booklets for Chapters 1 to 6 for the extra student.

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World History Teacher's Resource Kit with CD

Publisher: Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum

The Teacher's Resource Kit (TRK) contains the blackline master answer keys, quizzes, and tests in print format for the first six chapters of the World History course. The CD-ROM contains this information in the digital format.

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Paradigm World History Teacher Resource Kit on CD-ROM
World History Teacher's Resource Kit CD Only

Publisher: Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum

The Teacher's Resource Kit CD Only has the TRK in PDF format to view on your computer or print on your printer. It includes tests, quizzes, and answers to all six chapters.

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