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National History Standards
Table of Contents
Preface
Developing Standards in World History
Significance of History for the Educated Citizen
Definition of Standards
Criteria for the Development of Standards
Developing Standards in World History
Three Policy Issues
Standards in Historical Thinking
Development of the Standards in Historical
Thinking
Chronological Thinking
Historical Comprehension
Historical Analysis and Interpretation
Historical Research Capabilities
Historical Issues-Analysis and Decision-Making
World History Standards
Overview of Standards in Historical Understandings
Integration of the Standards in Historical Thinking
and Historical Understanding
Era 1: The Beginnings of Human Society
Era 2: Early Civilizations and the Emergence of
Pastoral Peoples, 4000-1000 BCE
Era 3: Classical Traditions, Major Religions,
and Giant Empires, 1000 BCE-300 CE
Era 4: Expanding Zones of Exchange and
Encounter, 300-1000 CE
Era 5: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions,
1000-1500 CE
Era 6: The Emergence of the First Global
Age, 1450-1770
Era 7: An Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914
Era 8: The 20th Century