Frequency Curriculum Mapping Global Jan2015 1

Global History Scope & Sequence:
How Often Units and Sub-Units Appear on a Regents Exam, on Average
Year One
Unit
A. Introductory Unit:
Methodology of Global
History and Geography
1. Unit One: Ancient

World - Civilizations
and Religion (4000 BCE
- 500 CE)
2. Unit Two: Expanding

Zones of Exchange and
Encounter (500 - 1200
CE)
3. Unit Three: Global

Interactions (1200 1650 CE)
% Frequency % Frequency
on MC*
on DBQ**
6.8
11.0
8.3
10.4
Sub-Unit
A.1 History
1.8
0.0
A.2 Geography
2.8
0.8
A.2.1 Elements of Geography

A.2.2 Critical Thinking Skills
A.2.3 Identifying and Defining World Religions
A.3 Economics
1.5
0.0
A.3.1 Major Economic Concepts

A.3.2 Economic Decision Making
A.3.3 The Interdependence of Economics and
Economics Systems Throughout the World
A.3.4 Applying Critical Thinking Skills in

Making Well-Informed and Well-Reasoned
Economic Decisions
A.4 Political Science
0.6
9.5
A.4.1 The Purposes of Government

A.4.2 Political Systems Around the World
A.4.3 Political Concepts of Power, Authority,
Governance, and Law
A.4.4 Rights and Responsibilities of

Citizenship across Space and Time
A.4.5 Critical Thinking Skills
1.1 Early Peoples
1.9
0.0
1.1.1 Human Origins and Geography

1.1.2 Paleolithic Hunters & Gatherers
1.1.3 Theories and Patterns of Early Human

Migration
1.1.4 Development of Early Government
1.2 Neolithic Revolution &

Early River Civilizations
3.8
4.0
1.2.1 Foundations of Early Civilization

1.2.2 The Great Bantu Migration, 500 BCE - 1500 CE
18.6
0.0
7.1
13.2
Content
A.1.1 Skills of Historical Analysis
A.1.2 Understand the Concepts of Change and
Continuity over Time
A.1.3 The Connections and Interactions of
People Across Space and Time
Chinese Civilization
Han Dynasty
Greek Civilization
Roman Republic and Roman Empire
A.1.4 Time Frames and Periodization

A.1.5 Roles and Contributions of Individuals
and Groups
A.1.6 Oral Histories
1.3.5 Indian Empire

1.3.6 Rise of Agrarian Civilizations in
Mesopotamia
1.3.7 The Growth of Global Trade Routes
Linking China, Korea, & Japan and Africa &
Eurasia
1.3 The Rise & Fall of

Classical Civilizations
3.6
0.0
1.3.1
1.3.2
1.3.3
1.3.4
1.4 The Emergence &

Spread of Belief Systems
1.9
0.0
1.4.1 Place of Origin & Major Beliefs

1.4.2 Expansion of Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, & Buddhism
2.1 Gupta Empire (329-550

AD)
1.5
0.0
2.1.1 Human & Physical Geography

2.1.2 Artistic, Scientific, & Mathematical
Contributions
2.1.3 Ties to Hinduism & Buddhism

2.1.4 Organizational Structure
2.2 Tang & Song Dynasty

(330-1453 AD)
0.7
0.8

2.2.2 Contributions
2.2.3 Chinese Influence on Korea & Japan
2.2.4 Cultural Flowering

2.2.5 Growth of Commerce & Trade
2.3 Byzantine Empire
1.8
0.0
2.3.1 Growth of Commerce & Trade

2.3.2 Achievements (law, engineering, art,
commerce)
2.3.3 The Orthodox Christian Church
2.3.4 Political Structure & Justinian Code

2.3.5 Role in Preserving & Transmitting Greek
and Roman Cultures
2.3.6 Impact on Russia & Eastern Europe
2.4 Early Russia
0.5
0.0
2.4.1 Human and Physical Geography

2.4.2 Trade
2.4.3 Kiev
2.4.4 Russian Orthodox Church
2.5.4 Social Class: Women & Slavery in
Muslim Society
2.5.5 Position of "People of the Book"
2.5.6 The Golden Age of Islam
2.5.7 Trade
2.6.5 Spiritual and Secular Role of the Church
2.6.6 Monastic Centers of Learning
2.6.7 Anti-Semitism
2.5 The Spread of Islam to

Europe, Asia, & Africa
0.7
0.0

2.5.3 The Development of Islamic Law & Its
Impact
2.6 Medieval Europe

(500-1400)
2.2
3.2
2.6.1
2.6.2
2.6.3
2.6.4
2.7 Crusades
0.8
0.0
2.7.1 Causes
2.7.2 Impacts on Southwest Asia, Byzantium,
& Europe
2.7.3 Perspectives
2.7.4 Key Individuals (Urban II, Saladin, &
Richard the Lion-Hearted)
3.1 Early Japanese History

& Feudalism
1.4
0.8

3.1.2 Early Traditions (Shintoism)
3.1.3 Ties with China & Korea: Cultural
Diffusion, Buddhism, & Confucianism
3.1.4
3.1.5
3.1.6
3.1.7
3.2.5 Impact on Central Asia, China, Korea,

Europe, India, Southwest Asia
3.2.6 Impact of the Rise of Moscow
3.2.7 Global Trade, Pax Mongolia (Marco Polo)
3.2.8 Causes of Decline
Human & Physical Geography

Frankish Empire (Charlemagne)
Manorialism
Feudalism
Tokugawa Shogunate
Social Hierarchy & Stratification
Comparison to European Feudalism
Zen Buddhism
3.2 The Rise & Fall of the

Mongols & their Impact on
Eurasia
1.6
4.8

3.2.2 Origins (Central Asian Nomadic Tribes)
3.2.3 The Yuan Dynasty: a Foreign
Non-Chinese Dynasty
3.2.4 Extent of Empire Under Ghengis Khan &
Kublai Khan
3.3 Global Trade &

Interactions
1.5
0.0
3.3.1 Major Trading Centers

3.3.2 Ibn Battuta
3.3.3 Expansion of the Portuguese

3.3.4 Spice Trade to Southeast Asia & its
Impact on Asia & Europe
3.4 Rise & Fall of African

Civilizations
1.8
0.0

3.4.3 Contributions
3.4.4 Roles in Global Trade Routes

3.4.5 Spread & Impact of Islam
3.4.6 Timbuktu & African Trade Routes
0.0

3.5.2 Shift in Worldview (Otherworldly to
Secular)
3.5.3 Greco-Roman Revival (Interest in
Humanism)
3.5.4
3.5.5
3.5.6
3.5.7
3.6.5 Calvin & Other Reformers

3.6.6 Counter Reformation
3.6.7 Roles of Men & Women Within the
Christian Churches
3.6.8 Religious Wars in Europe: Causes &
Impacts
10.0
3.5 Renaissance &

Humanism
4. Unit Four: The First

Global Age (1450 - 1770
CE)
on MC*
on DBQ**
30.0
2.3
Art & Architecture

Literature
Political Science
Scientific & Technological Innovations
3.6 Reformation & Counter

Reformation
1.9
0.0

3.6.2 Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and
the Roman Catholic Church
3.6.3 Anti-Semitic Laws & Policies
3.6.4 Henry VIII & the English Reformation
4.1 The Ming Dynasty

(1368 - 1644)
1.0
7.9

4.1.2 Restoration of Chinese Rule, Chinese
World Vision
4.1.3 The Impact of China on East Asia &
Southeast Asia
4.1.4 China Relationship with the West

4.1.5 Contributions
4.1.6 Expansion of Trade
4.2 The Impact of the

Ottoman Empire on the
Middle East & Europe
1.3
0.0

4.2.2 Contributions
4.2.3 Suleiman I
4.2.4 Disruption of Established Trade Routes &

European Search for New Ones
4.2.5 Limits of Ottoman Europe
4.3 Spain & Portugal on

the Eve of the Encounter
1.0
4.0

4.3.2 Reconquista under Ferdinand & Isabella
4.3.3 Expulsion of Moors & Jews
4.4 The Rise of

Mesoamerican Empires
1.4
3.2

4.4.3 Contributions
4.4.4 Trade
4.5.5 European Mercantilism

4.5.6 Spanish Colonialism & the Introduction
of the Encomienda System to Latin America
4.5.7 Dutch Colonization in East Asia
4.5.8 Exchange of Food & Disease
4.5 The Encounter

between Europeans & the
Peoples of Africa, the
Americas, & Asia
Case Study: The
Colombian Exchange
4.6
4.0

4.5.2 European Competition for Colonies in the
Americas, Africa, East Asia, and Southeast
Asia
4.5.3 Global Demographic Shifts; Case Study:
The Triangular Trade & Slavery
4.5.4 The Extent of European Expansionism
4.6 Political Ideologies:

Global Absolutism
1.9
4.8

4.6.2 Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan
4.6.3 Jacques-Benigne Bossuet: Absolutism &
Divine Right Theory
4.6.4 Case Studies: Akbar the Great, Suleiman

the Magnificent, Philip II, Louis XIV, Ivan the
Terrible, & Peter the Great
4.7 The Response to

Absolutism: The Rise of
Parliamentary Democracy
in England
1.8
0.0
4.7.1 Background - Magna Carta

4.7.2 Divine Right of Monarchy - Stuart Rule
4.7.3 Puritan Revolution - Oliver Cromwell

4.7.4 Glorious Revolution - John Locke & The
English Bill of Rights
Year Two
on MC*
on DBQ**
Unit
5. Unit Five: An Age of

Revolution (1750 - 1914
CE)
16.7
14.3
Sub-Unit
on MC*
DBQ**
5.1 The Scientific

Revolution
0.6
0.0
5.1.1 The Development of Scientific Method

5.1.2 The Work of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton & Descartes
5.2 The Enlightenment in

Europe
1.5
0.0
5.2.1 The Writings of Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau & Montesquieu

5.2.2 The Impact of the Enlightenment on Nationalism & Democracy
5.2.3 The Enlightened Despots
5.3 Political Revolutions
2.7
4.8
5.3.1 Human & Physical Geography of

Revolutions
5.3.2 American Revolution
5.3.3 French Revolution

5.3.4 Independence Movements in Latin
America
5.4 The Reaction Against

Revolutionary Ideas
0.3
0.0
5.4.1 Balance of Power Politics & The

Congress of Vienna
5.4.2 Revolutions of 1848
5.4.3 Russian Absolutism: Reforms &

Expansion
5.4.4 Expansion of Russia into Siberia
5.5 Latin America: The

Failure of Democracy and
the Search for Stability
0.6
0.0

5.5.2 Roles of Social Classes
5.5.3 Roles of the Church & Military
5.5.4 Role of Cash Crop Economies in a Global

Market
5.5.5 The Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1930)
5.6 Global Nationalism
1.1
0.0

5.6.2 Role in Political Revolutions
5.6.3 Force for Unity & Self-Determination
5.6.4 Zionism
5.6.5 Force Leading to Conflicts
5.7 Economic & Social

Revolutions
4.1
4.0

5.7.2 "Agrarian Revolution"
5.7.3 The British Industrial Revolution
5.7.4 Urbanization
5.7.5 Responses to Industrialization
5.7.6 Mass Starvation in Ireland (1845 - 1850)
5.8 Imperialism
3.8
7.9
5.8.1 Reasons for Imperialism

5.8.2 Spatial Characteristics
5.8.3 British in India
5.8.4 British, French, Belgians, Germans in

Africa
5.8.5 European Spheres of Influence in China
5.8.6 Multiple Perspectives toward Imperialism
5.9 Japan & the Meji

Restoration
2.0
0.0

5.9.2 The Opening of Japan
5.9.3 Modernization, Industrialization

5.9.4 Japan as an Imperialist Power
4.0
6.1.1 Europe's Geography

6.1.2 Causes of War
6.1.3 Impacts of War
6.1.4 Effects of technological advances on
warfare
6.1.5 Armenian Massacre

6.1.6 Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
6.1.7 The war as reflected in literature, art &
propaganda
0.0
6.2.1 Czar Nicolas II

6.2.2 The Revolution of 1905
6.2.3 March Revolution & Provisional
Government
6.2.4 Bolshevik Revolution
6.2.5 Lenin's Rule in Russia
6.2.6 Stalin & the Rise of a Modern Totalitarian

State
6.2.7 Russification of Ethnic Republics
6.2.8 Forced Famine in Ukraine
6.2.9 Reign of Terror
3.6

6.3.2 Treaty of Versailles & the League of
Nations
6.3.3 Modernization & Westernization of a
Secular Turkey
6.3.4 Women's Suffrage
6.3.5 Great Depression
6.3.6 Wiemar Republic & the Rise of Fascism

6.3.7 Japanese Militarism & Imperialism
6.3.8 Policy of Appeasement (Munich Pact)
6.3.9 Colonial Responses to European
Imperialism
6.3.10 Arabic Zionists & Nationalists
6.4.5 The Nazi Holocaust

6.4.6 Resistance
6.4.7 Japan's Role (Nanjing, Bataan, Pearl
Harbor)
7.1.4 Emergence of the Superpowers

7.1.5 Political Climate of the Cold War
7.1.6 Korean War
6.1 World War I
6.2 Revolution & Change

in Russia
1.7
3.3
6. Unit Six: A Half

Century of Crisis and
Achievement (1900 1945 CE)
13.3
7. Unit Seven: The 20th

Century Since 1949
14.1
16.1
4.3
6.3 Between the Wars
3.7
0.0

6.4.2 The Nazi & Japanese States
6.4.3 Key Individuals (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin,
Roosevelt, Churchill)
6.3.4 Key Events (Dunkirk, the Blitz, D-Day,
Hitler's Second Front, the War in the Pacific)
7.1 Cold War Balance of

Power
1.4
0.0

7.1.2 Physical Setting of the World in 1945
7.1.3 United States Occupation of Germany &
Japan
7.2 Role of the United

Nations
0.5
0.0
7.2.1 Peace Keeping

7.2.2 Social & Economic Programs
7.3.5 Pacific Rim Economies and Economic
Crisis
7.3.6 North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA)
7.3 Economic Issues in the

Cold War & Post Cold War
Era
1.0
7.1

7.3.2 Market vs. Command Economies
7.3.3 Economic Recovery in Europe & Japan
7.3.4 Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC); Oil Crisis of the 1970s
7.4 Chinese Communist

Revolution
2.6
4.0

7.4.2 Communist Rise to Power (1936 - 1949);
Jiang Jieshi, Mao Zedong
7.4.3 Communism under Mao Zedong
7.4.4 Communism Under Deng Xiaoping

7.4.5 Return of Hong Kong (July 1, 1997)
7.4.6 Social System (Communist China vs.
Dynastic China)
7.5 Collapse of European

Imperialism
4.2
6.4

7.5.2 India - Independence & Partition
7.5.3 African Independence Movements & Pan

Africanism
7.5.4 Southeast Asia
0.0

7.6.2 Creation of State of Israel, Arab
Palestinians, & Israel's Arab Neighbors
7.6.3 Roles of Individuals & Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO)
7.6.4 Role of Terrorism
7.6.5 Kurds in Turkey & Iraq

7.6.6 Migration of Jews from Europe, the
United States, the Soviet Union, & Africa
7.6.7 The Iranian Revolution
7.6.8 Persian Gulf War (Saddam Hussein)
7.6.9 Islamic Fundamentalism
0.0

7.7.2 Background Events, 1970 to 1987
7.7.3 Poland's Solidarity & Lech Walesa
7.7.4 Mikhail Gorbachev
7.7.5 Fall of Berlin Wall & Reunification of
Germany
7.7.6 Ethnic Conflict in Former Satellite States,

e.g. Kosovo, Bosnia
7.7.7 Changing Political Boundaries
7.7.8 Challenges Faced by Post-Communist
Russia (Boris Yeltsin)
0.0
7.8.1 Physical Setting of Argentina

7.8.2 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution - causes
& Impact
7.8.3 Nicaragua's Sandinistas
7.8.4 Guatemala's Indigenous People
7.8.5 Changing Role of Roman Catholic

Church in Latin America
7.8.6 Latin American Immigration to the United
States
7.8.7 Return of the Panama Canal
8.1.5 Scientific & Technological Advances

8.1.6 Urbanization; use & distribution of
scarce resources (Africa, India, Latin America)
8.1.7 Status of Women & Children
8.1.8 Ethnic/Religious Tensions; Multiple
Perspectives
7.7 Collapse of
Communism & Breakup of
the Soviet Union
7.8 Political & Economic

Change in Latin America
6.3
4.6
6.4 World War II - Causes

& Impact
7.6 Conflicts & Change in

the Middle East
8. Unit Eight: Global

Connections and
Interactions
Content
2.0
1.9
0.4
8.1 Social & Political

Patterns & Change
2.6
7.1

8.1.2 Population Pressures & Poverty in China,
India, Africa, & Latin America
8.1.3 Global Migration and Urbanization
8.1.4 Balancing Modernization and Tradition
8.2 Economic Issues
1.4
0.0
8.2.1 North/South Dichotomy: Issues of

Development and Post-Colonialism
8.2.2 Korea's Economic Miracle
8.2.3 Economic Interdependence

8.2.4 World Hunger
8.3 The Environment &

Sustainability
1.0
0.0
8.3.1 Pollution (air, water, toxic waste) in

Europe
8.3.2 Deforestation (Amazon Basin)
8.3.3 Desertification (Sahel)

8.3.4 Nuclear Safety (Chernobyl)
8.3.5 Endangered Species (Africa)
8.4 Science & Technology
1.4
4.0
8.4.1 Information Age/Computer Revolution/

Internet
8.4.2 Impact of Satellites
8.4.3 Green Revolution
8.4.4 Space Exploration
8.4.5 Literacy & Education

8.4.6 Medical Breakthroughs
8.4.7 Epidemics (disease control/life
expectancy/genetics)
8.4.8 Nuclear Proliferation
1.4
Thematic Essay* * *
M ost frequently tested unit or sub-unit

Second-most frequently tested unit or sub-unit
T.2 Change
40
T.4 Conflict
6.7
T.5 Culture and

I ntellectual Life
2.2
T.16 M ovement of
People and Goods
2.2
T.11 Human and

Physical Geography
20
T.23 Science and

Technology
6.7
T.8 Economic
Systems
2.2
T.17 Nationalism
2.2
Third-most frequently tested unit or sub-unit

Least tested unit or sub-unit
* Based on an analysis of August 2007 - January 2015 Regents exams
* * Based on an analysis of June 2012 - January 2015 Regents exams
T.12 Human Rights
8.9
T.1 Belief Systems
4.4
T.9 Environment
and Society
2.2
T.20 Political
Systems
2.2
* * * Based on an analysis of June 2000 - August 2014 Regents exams;

Themes not shown here have not appeared on Regents exams during
this time period

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Global History Scope & Sequence:

How Often Units and Sub-Units Appear on a Regents Exam, on Average

1. Unit One: Ancient

2. Unit Two: Expanding

3. Unit Three: Global

A.2.1 Elements of Geography

A.2.3 Identifying and Defining World Religions

A.3.1 Major Economic Concepts

A.3.4 Applying Critical Thinking Skills in

A.4 Political Science

A.4.1 The Purposes of Government

A.4.4 Rights and Responsibilities of

1.1 Early Peoples

1.1.1 Human Origins and Geography

1.1.3 Theories and Patterns of Early Human

1.2 Neolithic Revolution &

1.2.1 Foundations of Early Civilization

A.1.4 Time Frames and Periodization

1.3.5 Indian Empire

1.3 The Rise & Fall of

1.4 The Emergence &

1.4.1 Place of Origin & Major Beliefs

2.1 Gupta Empire (329-550

2.1.1 Human & Physical Geography

2.1.3 Ties to Hinduism & Buddhism

2.2 Tang & Song Dynasty

2.2.1 Human & Physical Geography

2.2.4 Cultural Flowering

2.3 Byzantine Empire

2.3.1 Growth of Commerce & Trade

2.3.4 Political Structure & Justinian Code

2.4 Early Russia

2.4.1 Human and Physical Geography

2.5 The Spread of Islam to

2.5.1 Human & Physical Geography

2.6 Medieval Europe

3.1 Early Japanese History

3.1.1 Human & Physical Geography

3.2.5 Impact on Central Asia, China, Korea,

Human & Physical Geography

3.2 The Rise & Fall of the

3.2.1 Human & Physical Geography

3.3 Global Trade &

3.3.1 Major Trading Centers

3.3.3 Expansion of the Portuguese

3.4 Rise & Fall of African

3.4.1 Human & Physical Geography

3.4.4 Roles in Global Trade Routes

3.5.1 Human & Physical Geography

3.6.5 Calvin & Other Reformers

3.5 Renaissance &

4. Unit Four: The First

Art & Architecture

3.6 Reformation & Counter

3.6.1 Human & Physical Geography

4.1 The Ming Dynasty

4.1.1 Human & Physical Geography

4.1.4 China Relationship with the West

4.2 The Impact of the

4.2.1 Human & Physical Geography

4.2.4 Disruption of Established Trade Routes &

4.3 Spain & Portugal on