1. What do you know about world history?
Modern World History
What do you know about world history? 1

2. Theme 1. What do you know about theme?
2. Where have you heard about theme?
3. What does theme have to do with world history? 2

3. Theme and world history???
Themes in world history addresses a particular human activity over a period of time.
Ring a bell?
So what?
Human activity and interaction helps shape history.
Credit: 3

4. Major Themes that will be investigated!
Power and Authority
History is often made by the people and institutions in power.
What comes to mind?
-Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps.
Does it express power & authority?
How?
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps or Bonaparte at the St Bernard Pass, Credit: classicism/a/david-napoleon-crossing-the-alps 4

5. Guiding Questions: • Who holds the power?
• How did that person or group get power?
• What system of government provides order in this society?
• How does the group or person in power keep or lose power?
Think about our current president… 5

6. Religion – a particular system of faith and worship.
2. Religious and Ethical Systems: - Throughout history, humans around the world have been guided by, as much as anything else, their religious and ethical beliefs.
Religion – a particular system of faith and worship.
Ethics - moral principles that govern a person's or
group's behavior.
Activity: list at least 3 particular systems of faith and worship
and name a moral principal.
Credit:
Credit: 6

7. Guiding Questions:
• What beliefs are held by a majority of people in a region?
• How do these major religious beliefs differ from one another?
• How do the various religious groups interact with one another?
• How do religious groups react toward nonmembers? 7

8. 3. Revolution: - Often in history, great change has been achieved only through force B.P.Time: Credit: 8

9. 1. What is the name of the painting?
2. Who is the man in the middle of the poster?
3. What country did this man participate in a revolution? 9

10. Guiding Questions:
• What long-term ideas or institutions are being overthrown?
• What caused people to make this radical change?
• What are the results of the change?
Activity:
Answer the guiding questions through your investigation of the following video clip
Credit: youtube.com 10

11. There are three ways humans interact with their environment;
4. Interaction with the environment - Humans have had to deal and adapt to their surroundings for survival
There are three ways humans interact with their environment;
Humans adapt to their environment
Natural hazards/disasters
Humans Modify their environment
Environmental issues
Major industries
Humans depend on their environment        
Agricultural products
Land use 
Credit:
Credit:
B.P. What is this place called? 11

12. 5. Economics: - It has been a powerful force in human history and human cultures have been concerned how to use resources to satisfy their needs.
What is economics?
Credits:
Credits: 12

13. Guiding Questions • What goods and services does a society produce?
• Who controls the wealth and resources of a society?
• How does a society obtain more goods and services? 13

14. 6. Cultural Interactions: -Today, people around the world share many things, from music, to food, to ideas. Human cultures actually have interacted with each other since ancient times.
What is culture?
Maybe the answer is here?
Credits: 14

15. Guiding Questions:
• How have cultures interacted (trade, migration, or conquest)?
• What items have cultures passed on to each other?
• What political, economic, and religious ideas have cultures shared?
• What positive and negative effects have resulted from cultural interaction? 15

16. 7. Empire Building: - human cultures have shared a similar desire to grow more powerful—often by dominating other groups Credits: Credits: 16

17. Guiding Questions:
What motivates groups to conquer other lands and people?
• How does one society gain control of others?
• How does a dominating society control and rule its subjects? 17

18. Activity: List as many technologies that you can in 20 seconds.
8. Science & Technology: - All humans share an endless desire to know more about their world and to solve whatever problems they encounter. The development of science and technology has played a key role in these quests.
Activity: List as many technologies that you can in 20 seconds. 18

19. Guiding Questions:
• What tools and methods do people use to solve the various problems they face?
• How do people gain knowledge about their world? How do they use that knowledge?
• How do new discoveries and inventions change the way people live? 19

20. We will have a quiz on the material instructed in this PowerPoint
You will have a study guide which will reflect what is on the quiz.
There will also be a notebook grade associated with the PowerPoint during the quiz. 20