Use a case study to describe how trade integrated cultures and influenced in the economy within empires.

Describe the role of state authority, military power, taxation systems, and institutions of coerced labor, including slavery, in building and [...]

Describe the significance of legal codes, belief systems, written languages, and communications in the development of large regional empires.

Create a timeline that illustrates the rise and fall of classical empires during the classical period.

Explain the role of economics in shaping the development of classical civilizations and empires.

Identify and describe the core beliefs of major world religions and belief systems, including Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Sikhism [...]

Locate the geographical center of major religions and map the spread through 1500 CE.

Crisis in the Classical World – analyze the environmental, economic, and political crises in the classical world that led to [...]

Africa to 1500 CE – use a case study to describe how trade integrated cultures and influenced the economy within [...]

North America to 1500 CE – use a case study to describe the culture and economy of Indigenous Peoples in [...]

Use a variety of geographical tools (maps, globes, geographic information systems [GIS], and web-based geography technology) to analyze what is [...]

Apply the skills of geographic inquiry (asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic information, organizing geographic information, analyzing geographic information, and answering [...]

Use, interpret, and create maps and graphs representing places and regions in the era being studied.

Locate and use information from maps and GIS to answer geographic questions on the era and region being studied.

Investigations Designed for World History Eras 1-3 – conduct research on topics and issues, compose persuasive essays, and develop a [...]

Identify and describe the advantages, disadvantages, and impacts of different technologies used to transport products and ideas in the era [...]

Explain how people in the past have modified the environment and used technology to make places more suitable for humans.

Describe patterns of settlement and explain why people settled where they did.

Explain the patterns, causes, and consequences of major human migrations.

Identify the role of the individual in history and the significance of one person's ideas.

Describe and use cultural institutions to study an era and a region.

Describe and use themes of history to study patterns of change and continuity.

Use historical perspectives to analyze global issues faced by humans long ago and today.

Explain how and when human communities populated major regions of the world and adapted to a variety of environments.

Explain what archaeologists have learned about Paleolithic and Neolithic societies.

Describe the transition of many cultures from hunter-gatherers to sedentary agriculture (domestication of plants and animals).

Explain the importance of the natural environment in the development of agricultural settlements in different locations.

Explain the impact of the first Agricultural Revolution (stable food supply, surplus, population growth, trade, division of labor, development of [...]

Describe the importance of the development of human communication (oral, visual, and written) and its relationship to the development of [...]

Describe how the invention of agriculture led to the emergence of agrarian civilizations (seasonal harvests, specialized crops, cultivation, and development [...]

Use historical and modern maps and other sources to locate, describe, and analyze major river systems and discuss the ways [...]

Examine early civilizations to describe their common features, including environment, economies, and social institutions.

Define the concept of cultural diffusion and explain how ideas and technology spread from one region to another.

Describe pastoralism and explain how the climate and geography of Central Asia were linked to the rise of pastoral societies [...]

Describe the characteristics that classical civilizations share.

Using historic and modern maps, locate three major empires of this era, describe their geographic characteristics including physical features and [...]

Compare and contrast the defining characteristics of a city-state, civilization, and empire.

Assess the importance of Greek ideas about democracy and citizenship in the development of Western political thought and institutions.

Describe major achievements from Indian, Chinese, Mediterranean, African, Southwest and Central Asian, Mesoamerican, and Andean civilizations.

Compare and contrast several different calendar systems used in the past and present and their cultural significance.

Explain how historians use a variety of sources to explore the past.

Read and comprehend a historical passage to identify basic factual knowledge and the literal meaning by indicating who was involved, [...]

Identify the point of view (perspective of the author) and context when reading and discussing primary and secondary sources.

Compare and evaluate differing historical perspectives based on evidence.

Describe how historians use methods of inquiry to identify cause/effect relationships in history, nothing that many have multiple causes.

Use critical thinking strategies to observe, compare, and contrast artworks at an emerging level.

Develop and defend informed aesthetic opinions about works of art using artistic vocabulary at an emerging level.

Identify personal and community experiences within works of art at an emerging level.

Recognize, describe and analyze, and evaluate how art contributes to and reflects all societies and cultures at an emerging level.

Articulate an understanding of the historical, social, and cultural contexts of artwork with an emerging level of aesthetic sophistication.