Global History & Geography I: Early Societies to c. 1750 — Student & parent guide
A full-year Grade 9 global history and geography course for independent home study: Early Societies to c. 1750. Learn the background, institutions, mechanisms, and varied experiences before forming a judgment. Supplied evidence cases and source-study packets support study without an outside purchase.
A suggested lesson routine
- Read the background and locate the period and region.
- Explain each teaching section and attempt its reasoning check.
- Work through the evidence case before opening the model.
- Complete independent practice; identify the criterion supported by each answer.
- Revise and complete the exit check.
36 weeks × five flexible 45–60-minute sessions = 180 sessions: 120 unit sessions (40 × three), 24 workshop sessions (eight × three), 16 chapter review/quiz sessions (eight × two), eight midterm/final preparation, response, and feedback sessions, and 12 flexible retrieval, reteaching, or catch-up sessions. Session lengths are planning estimates, not measured completion times.
Keep a history, geography, and evidence notebook
Record date ranges, regions, institutions, vocabulary, causes, consequences, continuities, and a source limitation. Keep a map glossary, dated timeline, corrections, and revised workshop drafts. Label original items, course paraphrases, and illustrative scenarios separately.
Use assessments well
Every chapter has review and quiz questions covering all five units. Written responses require human marking; judge accurate context, relevant evidence, causal reasoning, and limitations rather than party preference, religion, family identity, or agreement with the parent. Midterm, final, and optional sample papers include worked keys and criteria.
Adjust the support
Use glossaries, oral responses, annotated timelines, and shorter reading blocks across multiple sessions. Linked scans and references extend the supplied packets; they are not prerequisites for attempting the tasks. No personal belief disclosure, interview, public posting, or purchase is required.
Reference tools
Teaching fairly across backgrounds
Name particular people, institutions, dates, and places. Explain differences within regions, religions, nationalities, and political movements. Apply the same evidence standards to every claim. Study beliefs as historical traditions without asking a learner to affirm or reject a faith.
Fairness does not require artificial balance between documented events and unsupported denial. Separate established facts, contested causes, moral judgment, and policy preference. Recognize agency and continuity alongside coercion, persecution, and unequal power.
Assessments and revision
The midterm covers Chapters 1–4; the final covers all eight. The sample is an optional shorter rehearsal that can replace a flexible session. These course-authored study assessments share topics and teaching cases with the lessons; keys are available and the papers are not secure or official school examinations.
For each exam answer award the three criteria separately. For a workshop score each of four criteria from 0 to 2: 2 = accurate and explained with evidence, 1 = partial or missing a distinction, 0 = missing or contradicted. Discuss the score out of 8, identify a specific gap, and ask for revision. Accept defensible alternatives and accessible response formats.
A 36-week study plan
Each chapter uses 20 sessions: 15 unit-study sessions, three workshop sessions, and two review/quiz sessions. Each half-year has four chapters (80 sessions), four examination sessions, and six flexible sessions, totaling 90. Move tasks between weeks to fit readiness, holidays, and reading or writing needs.
Weekly parent assignments: 36 weeks
Use the five ordered assignments per week as an adjustable calendar. Keep student-facing chapter and unit titles. The optional sample takes 60 minutes and may be split into two shorter blocks.
| Week | Sessions 1–5 in order |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | 1. 1.1 Global History: Evidence, Maps & Historical Time — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 1.1 Global History: Evidence, Maps & Historical Time — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 1.1 Global History: Evidence, Maps & Historical Time — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 1.2 Early Humans: Migration, Foraging & Adaptation — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 1.2 Early Humans: Migration, Foraging & Adaptation — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 2 | 1. 1.2 Early Humans: Migration, Foraging & Adaptation — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 1.3 Agriculture, Domestication & Uneven Change — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 1.3 Agriculture, Domestication & Uneven Change — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 1.3 Agriculture, Domestication & Uneven Change — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 1.4 Mesopotamia: Cities, Writing & Unequal Law — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 3 | 1. 1.4 Mesopotamia: Cities, Writing & Unequal Law — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 1.4 Mesopotamia: Cities, Writing & Unequal Law — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 1.5 Ancient Egypt: Nile Agriculture, Power & Daily Life — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 1.5 Ancient Egypt: Nile Agriculture, Power & Daily Life — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 1.5 Ancient Egypt: Nile Agriculture, Power & Daily Life — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 4 | 1. Chapter 1 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 1 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 1 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 1 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 1 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 5 | 1. 2.1 Indus Cities: Planning, Trade & Unanswered Questions — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 2.1 Indus Cities: Planning, Trade & Unanswered Questions — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 2.1 Indus Cities: Planning, Trade & Unanswered Questions — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 2.2 Early China: Shang, Zhou, Qin & Han — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 2.2 Early China: Shang, Zhou, Qin & Han — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 6 | 1. 2.2 Early China: Shang, Zhou, Qin & Han — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 2.3 Greek Poleis: Citizenship, Exclusion & Exchange — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 2.3 Greek Poleis: Citizenship, Exclusion & Exchange — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 2.3 Greek Poleis: Citizenship, Exclusion & Exchange — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 2.4 Rome: Republic, Empire & Unequal Citizenship — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 7 | 1. 2.4 Rome: Republic, Empire & Unequal Citizenship — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 2.4 Rome: Republic, Empire & Unequal Citizenship — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 2.5 South Asia: Mauryan Rule, Ashoka & Gupta Networks — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 2.5 South Asia: Mauryan Rule, Ashoka & Gupta Networks — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 2.5 South Asia: Mauryan Rule, Ashoka & Gupta Networks — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 8 | 1. Chapter 2 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 2 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 2 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 2 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 2 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 9 | 1. 3.1 Studying Belief Systems Without Stereotypes — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 3.1 Studying Belief Systems Without Stereotypes — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 3.1 Studying Belief Systems Without Stereotypes — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 3.2 Hindu, Buddhist & Jain Traditions in South Asia — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 3.2 Hindu, Buddhist & Jain Traditions in South Asia — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 10 | 1. 3.2 Hindu, Buddhist & Jain Traditions in South Asia — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 3.3 Judaism & Christianity: Communities, Texts & Empire — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 3.3 Judaism & Christianity: Communities, Texts & Empire — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 3.3 Judaism & Christianity: Communities, Texts & Empire — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 3.4 Islam: Origins, Caliphates & Varied Communities — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 11 | 1. 3.4 Islam: Origins, Caliphates & Varied Communities — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 3.4 Islam: Origins, Caliphates & Varied Communities — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 3.5 Comparing Empires: Resources, Law & Legitimate Rule — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 3.5 Comparing Empires: Resources, Law & Legitimate Rule — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 3.5 Comparing Empires: Resources, Law & Legitimate Rule — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 12 | 1. Chapter 3 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 3 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 3 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 3 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 3 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 13 | 1. 4.1 Byzantium: Roman Continuity, Christianity & Exchange — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 4.1 Byzantium: Roman Continuity, Christianity & Exchange — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 4.1 Byzantium: Roman Continuity, Christianity & Exchange — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 4.2 Medieval Europe: Land, Towns, Churches & Power — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 4.2 Medieval Europe: Land, Towns, Churches & Power — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 14 | 1. 4.2 Medieval Europe: Land, Towns, Churches & Power — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 4.3 West Africa: Ghana, Mali, Songhai & Regional Networks — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 4.3 West Africa: Ghana, Mali, Songhai & Regional Networks — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 4.3 West Africa: Ghana, Mali, Songhai & Regional Networks — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 4.4 East & Southern Africa: Cities, States & Local Agency — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 15 | 1. 4.4 East & Southern Africa: Cities, States & Local Agency — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 4.4 East & Southern Africa: Cities, States & Local Agency — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 4.5 Tang, Song, Korea & Japan: Institutions and Adaptation — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 4.5 Tang, Song, Korea & Japan: Institutions and Adaptation — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 4.5 Tang, Song, Korea & Japan: Institutions and Adaptation — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 16 | 1. Chapter 4 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 4 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 4 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 4 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 4 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 17 | 1. Midterm — prepare chronology and evidence methods | 2. Midterm — first response block (60 minutes) | 3. Midterm — second response block (60 minutes) | 4. Midterm — mark, discuss, and revise | 5. Flexible session 1 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing |
| Week 18 | 1. Flexible session 2 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing | 2. Flexible session 3 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing | 3. Flexible session 4 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing | 4. Flexible session 5 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing | 5. Flexible session 6 — retrieve earlier ideas, reteach, or finish writing |
| Week 19 | 1. 5.1 Silk Roads: Intermediaries, Ideas & Institutions — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 5.1 Silk Roads: Intermediaries, Ideas & Institutions — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 5.1 Silk Roads: Intermediaries, Ideas & Institutions — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 5.2 Indian Ocean: Monsoons, Ports & Maritime Communities — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 5.2 Indian Ocean: Monsoons, Ports & Maritime Communities — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 20 | 1. 5.2 Indian Ocean: Monsoons, Ports & Maritime Communities — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 5.3 Mongol Empires: Conquest, Administration & Connections — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 5.3 Mongol Empires: Conquest, Administration & Connections — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 5.3 Mongol Empires: Conquest, Administration & Connections — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 5.4 The Black Death: Evidence, Responses & Uneven Effects — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 21 | 1. 5.4 The Black Death: Evidence, Responses & Uneven Effects — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 5.4 The Black Death: Evidence, Responses & Uneven Effects — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 5.5 Korea & Southeast Asia: States, Water & Cultural Choice — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 5.5 Korea & Southeast Asia: States, Water & Cultural Choice — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 5.5 Korea & Southeast Asia: States, Water & Cultural Choice — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 22 | 1. Chapter 5 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 5 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 5 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 5 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 5 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 23 | 1. 6.1 Indigenous Americas: Maya, Mexica, Andes & Wider Societies — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 6.1 Indigenous Americas: Maya, Mexica, Andes & Wider Societies — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 6.1 Indigenous Americas: Maya, Mexica, Andes & Wider Societies — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 6.2 Renaissance: Humanism, Patronage & Continuing Traditions — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 6.2 Renaissance: Humanism, Patronage & Continuing Traditions — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 24 | 1. 6.2 Renaissance: Humanism, Patronage & Continuing Traditions — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 6.3 Reformations: Doctrine, Institutions & Political Conflict — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 6.3 Reformations: Doctrine, Institutions & Political Conflict — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 6.3 Reformations: Doctrine, Institutions & Political Conflict — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 6.4 Atlantic Voyages & the Columbian Exchange — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 25 | 1. 6.4 Atlantic Voyages & the Columbian Exchange — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 6.4 Atlantic Voyages & the Columbian Exchange — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 6.5 Conquest, Colonial Labor & Indigenous Continuity — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 6.5 Conquest, Colonial Labor & Indigenous Continuity — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 6.5 Conquest, Colonial Labor & Indigenous Continuity — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 26 | 1. Chapter 6 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 6 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 6 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 6 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 6 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 27 | 1. 7.1 Early Modern States: Comparing Power Around 1500–1750 — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 7.1 Early Modern States: Comparing Power Around 1500–1750 — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 7.1 Early Modern States: Comparing Power Around 1500–1750 — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 7.2 Ottoman & Safavid Worlds: Rule, Religion & Rivalry — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 7.2 Ottoman & Safavid Worlds: Rule, Religion & Rivalry — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 28 | 1. 7.2 Ottoman & Safavid Worlds: Rule, Religion & Rivalry — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 7.3 Mughal South Asia: Revenue, Patronage & Changing Policy — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 7.3 Mughal South Asia: Revenue, Patronage & Changing Policy — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 7.3 Mughal South Asia: Revenue, Patronage & Changing Policy — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 7.4 Ming & Qing China: Governance, Maritime Links & Change — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 29 | 1. 7.4 Ming & Qing China: Governance, Maritime Links & Change — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 7.4 Ming & Qing China: Governance, Maritime Links & Change — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 7.5 European & Russian State Building: Claims and Constraints — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 7.5 European & Russian State Building: Claims and Constraints — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 7.5 European & Russian State Building: Claims and Constraints — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 30 | 1. Chapter 7 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 7 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 7 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 7 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 7 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 31 | 1. 8.1 Scientific Change: Observation, Models & Global Knowledge — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 2. 8.1 Scientific Change: Observation, Models & Global Knowledge — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 3. 8.1 Scientific Change: Observation, Models & Global Knowledge — independent practice + revision + exit check | 4. 8.2 Enlightenment Debates: Rights, Power & Exclusions — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 5. 8.2 Enlightenment Debates: Rights, Power & Exclusions — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case |
| Week 32 | 1. 8.2 Enlightenment Debates: Rights, Power & Exclusions — independent practice + revision + exit check | 2. 8.3 Atlantic Slavery: Institutions, Resistance & Evidence — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 3. 8.3 Atlantic Slavery: Institutions, Resistance & Evidence — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 4. 8.3 Atlantic Slavery: Institutions, Resistance & Evidence — independent practice + revision + exit check | 5. 8.4 The World Around 1750: Silver, Production & Unequal Connections — background + Parts 1–2 and checks |
| Week 33 | 1. 8.4 The World Around 1750: Silver, Production & Unequal Connections — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 2. 8.4 The World Around 1750: Silver, Production & Unequal Connections — independent practice + revision + exit check | 3. 8.5 Global History Capstone: An Evidence-Based Comparison — background + Parts 1–2 and checks | 4. 8.5 Global History Capstone: An Evidence-Based Comparison — Parts 3–4 + worked evidence case | 5. 8.5 Global History Capstone: An Evidence-Based Comparison — independent practice + revision + exit check |
| Week 34 | 1. Chapter 8 workshop — source and evidence plan | 2. Chapter 8 workshop — draft and discuss | 3. Chapter 8 workshop — revise with criteria | 4. Chapter 8 review — retrieve, explain, and correct | 5. Chapter 8 quiz — independent responses and correction conference |
| Week 35 | 1. Final — first response block (60 minutes) | 2. Final — second response block (60 minutes) | 3. Final — third response block (60 minutes) | 4. Final — mark, discuss, and revise | 5. Flexible session 1 — optional sample examination rehearsal |
| Week 36 | 1. Flexible session 2 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work | 2. Flexible session 3 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work | 3. Flexible session 4 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work | 4. Flexible session 5 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work | 5. Flexible session 6 — cumulative retrieval, capstone revision, or unfinished work |
Curriculum references
Chapter and unit titles organize student work. Weekly assignments appear only in the parent plan. This independently authored sequence is not a district daily syllabus or official examination preparation guarantee.
School-hosted NYC Department of Education Grade 9 scope and sequence · NYSED social studies framework and instructional resources
Historical source and collection references checked during course authoring on 2026-10-10. The final period is bounded historical study, not a live account of current officeholders, conflicts, or laws.
Independently authored home-study curriculum using the broad New York global-history span. Not district-approved, a secure official examination, or a determination of homeschool credit.