Key

Reporting

Category

M

Define the basic components of culture.

M

Identify how communities reflect the cultural background of their inhabitants.

M

Compare how cultures differ in their use of similar environments and resources.

M

Analyze how human migration and cultural activities influence the character of a place.

M

Define religion.

D

Describe the beliefs of the world major religions.

D

Identify the founders of the world’s major religions.

D

Identify characteristics of a physical environment that contribute to the growth and development of a culture.

D

Evaluate the effect of technology on a culture.

D

Explain why individuals and groups respond differently to their physical and social environments.

D

Explain how information and experiences may be interpreted differently from people of diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference.

D

Describe instances in which language, art, music, belief systems, and other cultural elements can facilitate understanding or cause misunderstanding.

D

Explain and give examples of how language, literature, the arts, architecture, other artifacts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors contribute to the development and transmission of culture.

M

Define cultural diffusion.

M

Compare different ways in which cultural diffusion takes place.

M

Construct a timeline of technological innovations and rate the importance of technological advancements.

D

Show through specific examples how science and technology have changed people’s perceptions of the social and natural world.

D

Describe examples in which values, beliefs, and attitudes have been influenced by technological knowledge.

D

Explain the relationship of supply and demand in early world history.

A

E

Recognize an example of a barter economy.

Barter Economy Defined

M

Describe the change from hunter/gatherer economies to economies based on animal and plant domestication.

A

E

Identify disadvantages and advantages of nomadic and early farming lifestyles (i.e., shelter, food supply, and, domestication of plants and animals).

M

Investigate the impact of trade on the economies of early civilizations.

D

Define various types of economies and their methods of production and consumption.

A

E

Recognize the importance of economic systems in the development of early civilizations around rivers (i.e., Tigris and Euphrates, Huang He, Nile, and Indus).

D

Apply economic concepts to evaluate historic developments.

D

Explain the economic impact of improved communication and transportation.

A

E

Identify major trade routes (i.e., silk roads, Persian trade routes, African trade routes, Mediterranean trade routes, and ocean routes). Silk Road Info  African Trade Route Mediterranean Trade Info Ocean Routes

D

Appraise the relationship among scarcity of resources, economic development, and international conflict.

M

Differentiate between needs and wants.

D

Analyze how supply and demand and change in technologies impact the cost for goods and services.

D

Evaluate the relationship between creditors and debtors.

A

E

Recognize the importance of trade in later civilizations (i.e., Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, India, and European).

A

E

Analyze how basic economic ideas influenced world events (i.e., supply and demand lead to exploration and colonization).

M

Use the basic elements of maps and mapping.

A

G

Identify the basic components of a world map (i.e., compass rose, map key, scale, latitude and longitude lines, continents, and oceans).  Components of a Map Latitude & Longitude Continents and Oceans

M

Identify the locations of certain physical and human features and events on maps and globes.

A

G

Identify basic geographic forms (i.e., rivers, lakes, bays, oceans, mountains, plateaus, deserts, plains, and coastal plains). Plateau Geographic Landforms  National Geographic Forms Pictures  

M

Identify the location of earth’s major landforms such as continents, islands, mountain ranges, and major bodies of water such as the oceans, seas, rivers, and gulfs.

A

G

Use a variety of maps to understand geographic and historical information (i.e., political maps, resource maps, product maps, physical maps, climate maps, and vegetation maps). Physical/Political Map Climate Map Vegetation Map Product Map

M

Describe the location of major physical characteristics such as landforms, climate, soils, water, features, vegetation, resources, and animal life; and human characteristics such as language groups, religions, political systems, economic systems, and population centers in the world.

D

Explain how and why the location of geographic features both physical and human in the world change over time and space.

A

G

Recognize reasons that cultural groups develop or settle in specific physical environments.

A

G

Identify the location of early civilizations on a map (i.e., Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Ancient Chinese, and Indian).

Ancient Civilizations Map 

D

Identify concepts that define and describe spatial organization such as location, distance, direction, scale, movement, and region.

D

Explain how changing technology such as transportation and communication technology affect spatial relationships.

D

Describe how physical and human processes shape the characteristics of a place.

D

Explain how technology shapes the physical and human characteristics of places.

D

Explain why places have specific physical and human characteristics in different parts of the world.

A

G

Recognize the basic components of culture (i.e., language, common values, traditions, government, art, literature, and lifestyles).

A

G

Identify geographic reasons for the location of population centers prior to 1500 (i.e., coastal plains, deserts, mountains, and river valleys).

A

G

Interpret a graph that illustrates a major trend in world history (i.e., population growth, economic development, governance land areas, and growth of religions). Population Growth   Economic Development   

A

G

Recognize how migration and cultural diffusion influenced the character of world societies (i.e., spread of religions, empire building, exploration, and languages).

D

Identify informal and formal forms of governance.

A

GC

Recognize types of government (i.e., formal/informal, monarchy, direct/indirect democracy, republics, and theocracy).

Monarchy   Republics    Theocracy

D

Describe the purpose of governance and how its powers are acquired, used, and justified.

D

Analyze the necessity of establishing and enforcing the rule of law.

D

Originate models of lower to higher forms of social and political orders.

A

GC

Recognize the steps that give rise to complex governmental organizations (i.e., nomadic, farming, village, city, city-states, and states).

M

Identify written laws handed down from ancient civilizations.

A

GC

Identify the development of written laws (i.e., Hammurabi’s Code, Justinian Code, and Magna Carta).

Code of Hammurabi   Justinian Code   Magna Carta

D

Explore the development of citizenship and government in ancient civilizations.

D

Explain and apply concepts such as power, role, status, justice and influence to the examination of persistent issues and social problems.

A

GC

Recognize the roles assigned to individuals in various societies (i.e., caste systems, feudal systems, city-state systems, and class systems). Caste Systems   Feudal Systems and Middle Ages  

D

Recognize the relationship between a places’s physical, political, and cultural characteristics and the type of government that emerges in that place.

D

Identify natural resources that are necessary to the survival of a civilization.

D

Differentiate between rights and privileges of the individual.

A

GC

Compare and contrast the lives of individual citizens in various governmental organizations (i.e., monarchial systems, feudal systems, caste systems, and democratic systems-Greek).

D

Consider how cooperation and conflict affects the dissemination of resources, rights, and privileges.

M

List ancient weapons and tools.

M

Understand the role of the environment in terms of influencing the development of weapons and tools.

M

Explain the role of agriculture in early settled communities.

M

Recognize the immediate and long term impacts and influences of early agricultural communities such as Southwest Asia and the African Nile Valley.

M

Describe the biological processes that shaped the earliest human communities.

M

Identify the characteristics of hunter-gatherer communities in various continental regions in Africa versus the Americas.

M

Explain how different early human communities expressed their beliefs.

M

Explain how geologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists study early human development.

M

Identify scientific evidence regarding early human settlements in Africa.

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