Turning Points Project

Aim: Why are turning points important to our understanding of the political, social, geographic, and economic aspects of historical reasoning?

Do Now: Answer in your notebooks, what is a Turning Point?

The Turning Points Research Project is the culminating project for the final term before the NYS Regents exam in Global History & Geography.

Project Details:

• There are 30 Turning Points in this project.
• You must complete all of them.
• Each Turning Point requires a Data Sheet
• At the End of the Project you will write a Thematic Essay on many of the Turning Points.

Directions: Please click on the Activity Link below for access to the Turning Points Webquest

Classwork & Homework

Activity:

• Turning Points Webquest

Project: Turning Points Project

Webquest Steps

1. Turning Points - Introduction
2. Turning Points - Task
3. Turning Points - Process Step #1 (Topics Listing)
4. Turning Points - Process Step #2 (Extensions)
5. Turning Points - Evaluation

Video

• The Three (3) Faiths of Jerusalem (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
• The Ottoman Empire - Siege of Constantinople
• The Crusades
• The Reformation
• Age of Exploration
• Scientific Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• French Revolution
• World War I
• Russian Revolution
• The Holocaust
• End of Apartheid
• Fall of the Berlin Wall

Text Resources

Global History & Geography Review Packet

• Global Regents Review Packet

Online Textbook Pages: World History, Patterns of Interactions. McDougal Littell (2009) Note: These pages are only the starting points for the topics listed below.

• Paleolithic - Pg 14
• Neolithic Revolution - Pg 15
• River Valley Civilizations - Pg 26
• Ancient Greece - Pg 120
• Roman Republic - Pg 155
• Roman Empire - Pg 160
• Fall of Roman Empire - Pg 173
• Dark Ages - Pg 353
• Middle Ages - Pg 358
• Crusades - Pg 382
• Commercial Revolution - Pg 389
• Renaissance - Pg 471
• Scientific Revolution - Pg 623
• Age of Exploration - Pg 529
• Protestant Reformation - Pg 488
• Age of Imperialism (old) - Pg 553
• Age of Absolutism - Pg 589
• The Enlightenment - Pg 629
• The French Revolution - Pg 651
• The Industrial Revolution - Pg 717
• Agricultural Revolution - Pg 717
• Age of Imperialism (new) - Pg 770
• Age of Nationalism - Pg 681
• World War I - Pg 841
• Russian Revolution - Pg 867
• World War II - Pg 925
• Cold War - Pg 965
• Cultural Revolution & Great Leap Forward - Pg 974
• Green Revolution - Pg 1074
• War on Terrorism - Pg 1087