Middle School History
6th - 8th grade

Through Socratic discussions, games, group and personal research projects, weekly homework assignments, and unit exams, students will learn the ways people thought, worked, played, worshipped, and died from the medieval period through the early modern age. 

Unit 1 - Expansion and Fall of Rome

• Rise and Expansion of Rome

• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• Early Byzantine Empire

• Legacy of Rome

 
Unit 2 - Rise and Growth of Islam

• Life on the Arabian Peninsula 

• Origins of Islam 

• Expansion of Muslim Rule

• Golden-Age of the East

 
Unit 3 - African Civilizations

• West African Culture

• Empires of Ghana and Mali

• Growth of Coastal Trading Cities

• Empires Built on Gold and Trade

• Kongo Kingdom

 
Unit 4 - Asian Civilizations

• Reunifying China

• Mongol Empire

• Land of the Rising Sun

• Growth of Japanese Culture

• Korea and Southeast Asia

 
Unit 5 - Medieval Europe

• Development of Feudalism

• Daily Life in Medieval Europe

• Role of the Catholic Church

• Crusades

• Bubonic Plaguettoman Empire 

 
Unit 6 - Civilizations of the Americas

• Geography and Agriculture in Meso-America

• Olmec Civilization

• Mayan Civilization

• Aztec Civilization

• Inca Civilization

 
Unit 7 - European Renaissance and Reformation

• Origins, Rise, and Spread of the Renaissance 

• Protestant Reformation and Reaction

• Expansion of Christianity

 
Unit 8 - Early Modern Europe

• History of Scientific Thought

• Scientific Revolution

• Age of Exploration

• Enlightenment

• Democratic Development