Modern Era
Although a butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the world cannot actually cause a hurricane on the other side, the metaphor of how things are connected is a powerful one. At the core of this connectivity is history. Learning history is all about connections: connections to the past, and connections to each other. Knowing what happened in the past helps make sense of our present. Knowing how we fit into the larger global history, helps us connect to others. Knowing our heritage gives us a place to belong. History even gives us a basis to determine future actions. Currently, the world has become a global community, making global history all the more pressing.
The goal of this curriculum is for students to learn the 'stories' of history, to understand in broad terms what happened and how events can be connected. We do not expect students to memorize dates, names and places at this level, but rather aim for the student to have a broad understanding of the Islamic history in a global context.
Our History Connections spans for the Ancients to the Modern Era. Every year students will take a chunk of this history. In the first book, students will cover from Creation to about 500 C.E. In the second book, they will cover from 500 C.E. until about 1650 C.E. The third era will cover from 1650 C.E. until the Industrial Revolution, approximately 1850 C.E. The last era, the Modern Era, will cover from 1850 C.E. until our current day.
The four books in this curriculum are consecutive and follow each other up, not only in chronological information but also in building up skills. The fourth book is best suited for primary students in grade 3 and 4 (or older), because the subjects include many abstract concepts. The Modern Era history is a highly politicized era, and emotions can run high on many of the topics. We have attempted to give a balanced overview of the global history during this era, without losing our focus on what happened to the Ummah. The Ummah is globally spread out, with the highest concentrations of Muslims living in the Middle East. The Middle East is an area highly contested with many conflicting groups of people. The rise of concepts such as democracy, nationalism, development and industrialization, often have replaced the religion as the main driving force of forming communities, pushing the deen as such more to the background. Nonetheless, we will focus on what is happening in countries where the majority of people are Muslim, as part of our Ummah.
*This book works in conjunction with the Maps & Worksheets book for Modern Era, History Intersections and Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of History.*
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