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Year 2: Historical Topics |
| Week |
Unit 1: The Middle Ages |
| 1 |
Twilight of the Western Roman Empire |
| 2 |
Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| 3 |
Byzantine Empire and Rise of Islam |
| 4 |
The Making of Medieval Europe: Charlemagne |
| 5 |
Developments During the Viking Age |
| 6 |
Medieval Life: Feudalism |
| 7 |
The High Middle Ages |
| 8 |
The Mongols, Marco Polo, and the Far East |
| 9 |
The Reshaping of Medieval Europe |
| 10 |
Early Lights of the Reformation |
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Unit 2: Renaissance & Reformation |
| 11 |
Introduction to the Southern Renaissance |
| 12 |
The Southern Renaissance and the Early Explorers |
| 13 |
The Southern Renaissance and the Age of Exploration |
| 14 |
Spanish Dominion and the New World: Aztecs and Incas |
| 15 |
The Northern Renaissance and Its Scholars |
| 16 |
The Reformation: Martin Luther and the German States |
| 17 |
The Reformation in Switzerland, England, and
Scandinavia |
| 18 |
The Counter Reformation, French Huguenots, and the
Netherlands |
| 19 |
Elizabethan England and the Scottish Reformation |
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Unit 3: Of Crowns and Colonies |
| 20 |
Early New World Colonies and Eastern Europe |
Sail to the New World!
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| 21 |
Puritans in New England |
| 22 |
Charters, Creeds, and the English Civil War |
| 23 |
Restoration Colonies and the Age of Louis XIV |
| 24 |
Dissenters in America and the Age of Reason |
| 25 |
Colonists and Native Americans |
| 26 |
Empires at Odds |
| 27 |
Thirteen Established Colonies |
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Unit 4: Age of Revolutions |
| 28 |
Shaping Influences on Colonial Culture |
| 29 |
French and Indian War |
| 30 |
Give Me Liberty! |
| 31 |
First Battles for Independence |
| 32 |
Waging the Revolutionary War |
| 33 |
America under the Articles of Confederation |
| 34 |
Writing the Constitution |
| 35 |
Federal Republic & French Revolution |
| 36 |
Perilous Times: The Adams Administration |
