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Identify terms (decade, century, epoch, era, millennium, BC/BCE, AD/CE) and designations of time periods.
Generate resourceDescribe the methods of historical inquiry and how history relates to the other social sciences.
Generate resourceDescribe the roles of historians and recognize varying historical interpretations (historiography).
Generate resourceDescribe how history transmits culture and heritage and provides models of human character.
Generate resourceDescribe the emergence of early civilizations (Nile, TigrisEuphrates, Indus, and Yellow Rivers, Meso and South American).
Generate resourceCompare the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers with those of settlers of early agricultural communities.
Generate resourceCompare the emergence of advanced civilizations in Meso and South America with the four early river valley civilizations.
Generate resourceDescribe how the developments of agriculture and metallurgy related to settlement, population growth, and the emergence of civilization.
Generate resourceCompare the economic, political, social, and religious institutions of ancient river civilizations.
Generate resourceDetermine the impact of key figures from ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.
Generate resourceIdentify key figures and basic beliefs of the Israelites and determine how these beliefs compared with those of others in the geographic area.
Generate resourceRecognize significant events, figures, and contributions of classical civilizations (Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, Axum).
Generate resourceAnalyze the cultural impact the ancient Phoenicians had on the Mediterranean world with regard to colonization (Carthage), exploration, maritime commerce (purple dye, tin), and written communication (alphabet).
Generate resourceDescribe the government of the Roman Republic and its contribution to the development of democratic principles (separation of powers, rule of law, representative government, civic duty).
Generate resourceExplain the transition from Roman Republic to empire and Imperial Rome, and compare Roman life and culture under each one.
Generate resourceIdentify key figures and the basic beliefs of early Christianity and how these beliefs impacted the Roman Empire.
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for the gradual decline of the Western Roman Empire after the Pax Romana.
Generate resourceCompare life in the Roman Republic for patricians, plebeians, women, children, and slaves.
Generate resourceExplain the spread and influence of the Latin language on Western Civilization.
Generate resourceDescribe the rise and fall of the ancient east African kingdoms of Kush and Axum and Christianity's development in Ethiopia.
Generate resourceExplain the democratic concepts (polis, civic participation and voting rights, legislative bodies, written constitutions, rule of law) developed in ancient Greece.
Generate resourceCompare life in Athens and Sparta (government and the status of citizens, women and children, foreigners, helots).
Generate resourceSummarize the important achievements and contributions of ancient Greek civilization.
Generate resourceSummarize the key achievements, contributions, and figures associated with The Hellenistic Period.
Generate resourceDetermine the impact of significant figures associated with ancient Rome.
Generate resourceExplain the impact of the Punic Wars on the development of the Roman Empire.
Generate resourceRecognize significant events, figures, and contributions of classical Asian civilizations (China, India).
Generate resourceDiscuss the significance of Aryan and other tribal migrations on Indian civilization.
Generate resourceExplain the significance of the silk roads and maritime routes across the Indian Ocean to the movement of goods and ideas among Asia, East Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin.
Generate resourceExplain the rise and expansion of the Mongol empire and its effects on peoples of Asia and Europe including the achievements of Ghengis and Kublai Khan.
Generate resourceIdentify the causes and effects of Chinese isolation and the decision to limit foreign trade in the 15th century.
Generate resourceExplain the major beliefs and practices associated with Hinduism and the social structure of the caste system in ancient India.
Generate resourceRecognize the political and cultural achievements of the Mauryan and Gupta empires.
Generate resourceExplain the teachings of Buddha, the importance of Asoka, and how Buddhism spread in India, Ceylon, and other parts of Asia.
Generate resourceSummarize the important achievements and contributions of ancient Indian civilization.
Generate resourceDescribe the concept of the Mandate of Heaven and its connection to the Zhou and later dynasties.
Generate resourceStudents will compare and contrast the political systems of ancient Greece and modernday United States.
Generate resourceStudents will compare and contrast the political systems in ancient Rome and modernday United States.
Generate resourceInstruction includes Spartan communal life, Sparta’s dependency on helots (slaves), the Agoge system and Sparta’s limited trade and innovation.
Generate resourceStudents will recognize origins of the rule of law including, but not limited to, the contributions of ancient Jewish, ancient Greek and ancient Roman civilizations.
Generate resourceInstruction includes Roman society, the latifundia, reliance on slave labor and the role of the Cura Annonae.
Generate resourceStudents will identify and explain the democratic principles of government in ancient Greece.
Generate resourceStudents will recognize that the rule of law is a foundational principle of the U.S. government.
Generate resourceStudents will recognize the influence of ancient Rome on the American political process.
Generate resourceStudents will recognize the influence of ancient Greece on the American political process.
Generate resourceStudents will explain the influence of significant leaders (e.g., Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Pericles, Solon, Cleisthenes) on civic participation and governance in the ancient world.
Generate resourceDemonstrate an understating of the origins and purposes of government, law, and the American political system.
Generate resourceAnalyze how democratic concepts developed in ancient Greece served as a foundation for the United States’ constitutional republic.
Generate resourceAnalyze the influence of ancient Rome on the United States’ constitutional republic.
Generate resourceExamine rule of law in the ancient world and its influence on the United States’ constitutional republic.
Generate resourceExamine examples of civic leadership and virtue in ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
Generate resourceUnderstand the fundamental concepts relevant to the development of a market economy.
Generate resourceIdentify the factors (e.g., new resources, increased productivity, education, technology, slave economy, territorial expansion) that increase economic growth.
Generate resourceDescribe and identify traditional and command economies as they appear in different civilizations.
Generate resourceDescribe the following economic concepts as they relate to early civilization: scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand, barter, trade, productive resources (e.g., land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship).
Generate resourceUnderstand the fundamental concepts relevant to the institutions, structure, and functions of a national economy.
Generate resourceEvaluate how civilizations through clans, leaders and family groups make economic decisions for that civilization providing a framework for future citystate or nation development.
Generate resourceUnderstand the fundamental concepts and interrelationships of the United States in the international marketplace.
Generate resourceIdentify examples of mediums of exchange (currencies) used for trade (barter) for each civilization, and explain why international trade requires a system for a medium of exchange between trading both inside and among various regions.
Generate resourceCategorize products that were traded among civilizations, and give examples of barriers to trade of those products.
Generate resourceDescribe traditional economies (e.g., Egypt, Greece, Rome, Kush) and elements of those economies that led to the rise of a merchant class and trading partners.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationship among civilizations that engage in trade, including the benefits and drawbacks of voluntary trade.
Generate resourceUnderstand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technology to report information.
Generate resourceUse latitude and longitude coordinates to understand the relationship between people and places on the Earth.
Generate resourceAnalyze the purposes of map projections (e.g., political, physical, special purpose) and explain the applications of various types of maps.
Generate resourceUse scale, cardinal and intermediate directions, and estimation of distances between places on current and ancient maps of the world.
Generate resourceUse a map to identify major bodies of water of the world and explain ways they have impacted the development of civilizations.
Generate resourceUse maps to identify characteristics and boundaries of ancient civilizations that have shaped the world today.
Generate resourceExplain how major physical characteristics, natural resources, climate, and absolute and relative locations have influenced settlement, interactions, and the economies of ancient civilizations of the world.
Generate resourceDifferentiate between continents, regions, countries, and cities in order to understand the complexities of regions created by civilizations.
Generate resourceAnalyze the relationship of physical geography to the development of ancient river valley civilizations.
Generate resourceExplain how the geographical location of ancient civilizations contributed to the culture and politics of those societies.
Generate resourceInterpret how geographic boundaries invite or limit interaction with other regions and cultures.
Generate resourceExplain the concept of cultural diffusion and identify the influences of different ancient cultures on one another.
Generate resourceInterpret choropleths or dot-density maps to explain the distribution of population in the ancient world.
Generate resourceUnderstand the relationships between the Earth’s ecosystems and the populations that dwell within them.
Generate resourceExplain how the physical landscape affected the development of agriculture and industry in the ancient world.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of human populations on the ancient world's ecosystems.
Generate resourceUnderstand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations.
Generate resourceLocate sites in Africa and Asia where archaeologists have found evidence of early human societies and trace their migration patterns to other parts of the world.
Generate resourceMap and analyze the impact of the spread of various belief systems in the ancient world.
Generate resourceIdentify the methods used to compensate for the scarcity of resources in the ancient world.
Generate resourceUse geographic terms and tools to explain why ancient civilizations developed networks of highways, waterways, and other transportation linkages.
Generate resourceUse geographic tools and terms to analyze how famine, drought and natural disasters plagued many ancient civilizations.
Generate resourceUnderstand how to apply geography to interpret the past and present and plan for the future.
Generate resourceDescribe the Six Essential Elements of Geography (The World in Spatial Terms, Places and Regions, Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment, The Uses of Geography) as the organizing framework for understanding the world and its people.
Generate resourceExplain ancient communal systems and the effect on their respective societies.
Generate resourceIdentify terms (e.g., decade, century, epoch, era, millennium, BC or BCE, AD or CE) and designations of time periods.
Generate resourceDescribe the methods of historical inquiry and how history relates to the other social sciences.
Generate resourceDescribe the roles of historians and recognize varying historical interpretations (historiography).
Generate resourceDescribe how history transmits culture and heritage and provides models of human character.
Generate resourceDescribe the emergence of early civilizations (e.g., Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, and Yellow Rivers, Mesoamerican and South American).
Generate resourceCompare the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers with those of settlers of early agricultural communities.
Generate resourceCompare the emergence of advanced civilizations in Mesoamerica and South America with the four early river valley civilizations.
Generate resourceDescribe how the developments of agriculture and metallurgy related to settlement, population growth, and the emergence of civilization.
Generate resourceCompare the economic, political, social, and religious institutions of ancient river civilizations.
Generate resourceDetermine the impact of key figures from ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.
Generate resourceIdentify key figures and basic beliefs of the Israelites and determine how these beliefs compare with those of others in the geographic area.
Generate resourceRecognize significant events, figures, and contributions of classical civilizations (i.e., Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, Axum).
Generate resourceAnalyze the cultural impact the ancient Phoenicians had on the Mediterranean world with regard to colonization (Carthage), exploration, maritime commerce (purple dye, tin), and written communication (alphabet).
Generate resourceDescribe the government of the Roman Republic and its contribution to the development of democratic principles (i.e., separation of powers, rule of law, representative government, civic duty).
Generate resourceExplain the transition from Roman Republic to empire and Imperial Rome and compare Roman life and culture under each one.
Generate resourceIdentify key figures and the basic beliefs of early Christianity and how these beliefs impacted the Roman Empire.
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for the gradual decline of the Western Roman Empire after the Pax Romana.
Generate resourceCompare life in the Roman Republic for patricians, plebeians, women, children, and slaves.
Generate resourceExplain the spread and influence of the Latin language on Western Civilization.
Generate resourceDescribe the rise and fall of the ancient east African kingdoms of Kush and Axum and Christianity's development in Ethiopia.
Generate resourceExplain the democratic concepts (i.e., polis, civic participation and voting rights, legislative bodies, written constitutions, rule of law) developed in ancient Greece.
Generate resourceCompare life in Athens and Sparta (e.g., government and the status of citizens, women and children, foreigners, helots).
Generate resourceSummarize the important achievements and contributions of ancient Greek civilization.
Generate resourceSummarize the key achievements, contributions, and figures associated with The Hellenistic Period.
Generate resourceDetermine the impact of significant figures associated with ancient Rome.
Generate resourceExplain the impact of the Punic Wars on the development of the Roman Empire.
Generate resourceRecognize significant events, figures, and contributions of classical Asian civilizations (i.e., China, India).
Generate resourceDiscuss the significance of Aryan and other tribal migrations on Indian civilization.
Generate resourceExplain the significance of the silk roads and maritime routes across the Indian Ocean to the movement of goods and ideas among Asia, East Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin.
Generate resourceExplain the rise and expansion of the Mongol empire and its effects on peoples of Asia and Europe including the achievements of Genghis and Kublai Khan.
Generate resourceIdentify the causes and effects of Chinese isolation and the decision to limit foreign trade in the 15th century.
Generate resourceExplain the major beliefs and practices associated with Hinduism and the social structure of the caste system in ancient India.
Generate resourceRecognize the political and cultural achievements of the Mauryan and Gupta empires.
Generate resourceExplain the teachings of Buddha, the importance of Asoka, and how Buddhism spread in India, Ceylon, and other parts of Asia.
Generate resourceSummarize the important achievements and contributions of ancient Indian civilization.
Generate resourceDescribe the concept of the Mandate of Heaven and its connection to the Zhou and later dynasties.
Generate resourceStudents will describe the basic beliefs of Judaism and trace the origins and history of Jews in Europe.
Generate resourceInstruction includes the comparative treatment of indentured servants of European and African extraction.
Generate resourceInstruction includes writings by Africans living in the United States and their effect on the abolitionist movement (e.g., Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, David Walker, Martin Delaney).
Generate resourceInstruction includes the transition from an indentured to a slave-based economy.
Generate resourceInstruction includes the use of “spirituals” and symbols as a form of communication, coordination, coding, and expression.
Generate resourceInstruction includes how collaboration of free blacks, whites, churches, and organizations assisted in the Underground Railroad (e.g., Harriet Tubman, William Lambert, Levi Coffin, William Still).
Generate resourceInstruction includes the Society of Friends (Quakers) and their efforts to end slavery throughout the United States.
Generate resourceInstruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.
Generate resourceStudents will analyze how antisemitism led to and contributed to the Holocaust.
Generate resourceInstruction includes the similarities and differences between serfdom and slavery.
Generate resourceInstruction includes how slavery was utilized in Asian, European, and African cultures.
Generate resourceStudents will identify examples of antisemitism (e.g., making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing or stereotypical allegations about Jews; demonizing Israel by using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism to characterize Israel or Israelis).
Generate resourceUnderstand the causes, courses, and consequences of the slave trade in the colonies.
Generate resourceIdentify Afro-Eurasian trade routes and methods prior to the development of the Atlantic slave trade.
Generate resourceDescribe the contact of European explorers with systematic slave trading in Africa.
Generate resourceExamine the evolution of the labor force in the use of indentured servitude contracts.
Generate resourceAnalyze slave revolts that happened in early colonial America and how political leaders reacted (e.g., 1712 revolt in New York City, Stono Rebellion [1739]).
Generate resourceExamine the service and sacrifice of African patriots during the Revolutionary Era (e.g., Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, James Armistead Lafayette, 1st Rhode Island Regiment).
Generate resourceAnalyze events that involved or affected Africans from the founding of the nation through Reconstruction.
Generate resourceExplain early congressional actions regarding the institution of slavery (i.e., Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Three-Fifths Compromise, Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1808).
Generate resourceExplain the effect of the cotton industry on the expansion of slavery due to Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin.
Generate resourceExamine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation).
Generate resourceExamine the Underground Railroad and its importance to those seeking freedom.
Generate resourceIdentify political figures who strove to abolish the institution of slavery (e.g., Thaddeus Stevens, Abraham Lincoln, Zachariah Chandler).
Generate resourceEvaluate various abolitionist movements that continuously pushed to end slavery.
Generate resourceExamine how the status of slaves, those who had escaped slavery and free blacks, affected their contributions to the Civil War effort.
Generate resourceDescribe significant contributions made by key figures during Reconstruction (e.g., President Ulysses S. Grant, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Lyman Trumbull).
Generate resourceExamine the Holocaust as the planned and systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
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