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Describe how location and environment influenced early world cultures6.2A.1.a

Describe and compare elements of culture such as art, music, religion, government, social structure, education, values, beliefs and customs, from civilizations in early world history6.2A.1.b

Describe the social, political, and religious character of societies in early world history6.2A.1.c

Identify cultural groups within a region in early world history6.2B.1.a

Describe factors that resulted in cultural diffusion, such as trade, conflict and migration6.2B.1.b

Describe interactions that promoted or failed to promote relationships between groups, civilizations, empires, and nations6.2B.1.c

Examine the practices and beliefs of world religions and philosophies including monotheism and polytheism6.2B.2.a

Describe the impact of various religions on a civilization, such as its effect on political, economic and social systems6.2B.2.b

Examine the causes and effects of social, economic, and political conflict such as the Crusades6.2C.1.a

Describe the impact of trade and migration on the exchange of ideas and beliefs6.2C.1.b

Use maps to compare geographic locations of civilizations from world history to:<ul><li>Mesopotamia</li><li>Africa including Egypt, Nubia/Kush and sub-Saharan Africa</li><li>Indus River Valley</li><li>Northern China</li><li>Greeks and Romans</li><li>Mesoamerican, such as the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs</li></ul>6.3A.1.a

Use photographs and thematic maps, to identify and describe physical and human characteristics of early civilizations6.3A.1.b

Identify and describe physical characteristics that influenced human settlement6.3B.1.a

Explain how physical characteristics of a place influenced human activities, such as agriculture, transportation, art and architecture and economic activity in the ancient world6.3B.1.b

Explain how human perceptions of and interactions with the environment changed over time in due to technologies, such as road building, dam construction, and agricultural improvements6.3B.1.c

Identify reasons why people migrate, such as economic opportunity, climate, and political reasons6.3C.1.a

Explain how the development of transportation and communication networks influenced the movement of people, goods and ideas from place to place, such as trade routes in Africa, Asia and Europe, and the spread of Islam6.3C.1.b

Describe how economic systems and cultural diffusion help to shape patterns of human settlement and interaction6.3C.1.c

Describe ways people modified their environment to meet their needs, such as cultivating lands, building roads, dams, and aqueducts6.3D.1.a

Analyze how people in early world history perceived and reacted to environmental concerns, such as flooding, drought, and depletion of natural resources and evaluate the consequences of those actions6.3D.1.b

Identify opportunity cost of economic decisions made by individuals and groups such as the decision to engage in trade6.4A.1.a

Identify ways people have used resources to meet economic wants such as domesticating agriculture6.4A.2.a

Describe how available resources affected specialization and trade6.4A.2.b

Give examples of how technology changed consumption and provided greater access to goods and services6.4A.3.a

Examine why technology has changed production such as the development of the printing press6.4A.3.b

Analyze examples of regional specialization that resulted from economic resources, such as silk production, bronze casting and terraced farming6.4A.4.a

Describe the effects of agricultural surplus and job specialization on the emergence of early towns and cities in various parts of the world6.4A.4.b

Identify African and Eurasian trade routes to explain how surplus goods and regional specialization resulted in economic interdependence6.4A.4.c

Describe how various early world societies answer the basic question of what, how, and for whom to produce6.4B.1.a

Describe examples of tradition in economies such as the economic roles of men and women in tribal societies6.4B.1.b

Describe examples of command in economies, such as the feudal system6.4B.1.c

Explain how the growth and management of towns, guilds, and the banking system were affected by technology and agriculture6.4B.2.a

Analyze how the guild system addressed changes in the economy, such as dictating price and production6.4B.2.b

Explain how societies used mediums of exchange to facilitate trade and help their economies grow6.4B.3.a

Describe characteristics and innovations of hunting and gathering societies, such as nomadic lifestyles, inventors of tools, adaptation to animal migration and vegetation cycles and the shift from food gathering to food-producing activities6.5A.1.a

Explain how and why towns and cities grew from early human settlements, including the need for security and government6.5A.1.b

Describe and trace the development of political and social structures of the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs6.5A.2.a

Describe the characteristics of a civilization, such as social hierarchy, government, writing system, specialization in an area of trade and the establishment of cities6.5B.1.a

Compare major cultural, political and economic achievements of river valley civilizations, such as the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley, the Huang River Valley, the Indus River Valley and the Nile River Valley including Egypt, Nubia and Kush6.5B.1.b

Describe the major cultural achievements of the Greek civilization, such as art, science, political systems, and philosophy across time6.5B.2.a

Explain the emergence, rise and decline of the Greek city-states6.5B.2.b

Describe the major achievements of the Roman Era, such as legal, artistic, architectural, technological, and literary6.5B.3.a

Explain the transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire including the social structure, significance of citizenship and the development of political institutions6.5B.3.b

Summarize the factors that led to the decline of the Roman Empire6.5B.3.c

Describe the causes and consequences of the unification of China under early imperial dynasties, such as the Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang6.5B.4.a

Explain the major traditions, customs and beliefs of Confucianism and Taoism in the context of early Chinese imperial dynasties6.5B.4.b

Analyze China's cultural, political and economic influence on Japan, Korea, and countries in Southeast Asia6.5B.4.c

Describe the contributions of major African monarchies, cities, and trade networks, such as Ghana, Mali and Songhai6.5B.5.a

Analyze the cultural and economic impact of African regional and worldwide trade routes6.5B.5.b

Summarize the factors that led to the decline of the African empires6.5B.5.c

Describe how interactions promoted or failed to promote development, such as the Fertile Crescent Empire, Greek city-states, and Latin Empires6.6C.1.a

Analyze the causes of the rise and fall, expansion and contraction of political entities and nation-states6.6C.1.b

Describe the major traditions, customs and beliefs of Buddhism6.6C.2.a

Explain the major traditions, customs and beliefs of Hinduism and its political and social impact on India6.6C.2.b

Analyze the major traditions, customs, and beliefs of Islam6.6C.3.a

Describe causes and consequences of the expansion of Islam into other regions, such as Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, North Africa, Europe and India6.6C.3.b

Analyze the major traditions, customs, and beliefs of Christianity6.6C.4.a

Explain the origins and consequences of the Black Death during the 14th century, such as a population decrease, a decline in trade, the elimination of the social order and the decline of religious power6.6C.4.b

Analyze the characteristics of the development and decline of feudalism and the emergence of monarchies6.6C.4.c

Describe the causes, consequences and cultural diffusion that resulted from the Crusades, such as the increase in Mediterranean trade and the exchange of knowledge and ideas6.6C.4.d