Appendix 1: Standards
Content Standard One: Students will understand the development of human culture and its relationship to geography and the environment.
WH.A. 1.8 Students will explain human-environmental interaction within the context of a variety of geographic locations. (power standard)
WH.A. 1.6 Students will analyze the relationship between maize cultivation and the development of complex societies in Mesoamerica
Content Standard Two: Students will understand the conditions that lead to the development of civilization in some areas.
WH.A.2.1 Students will compare culture based upon their social, political, economic, religious, and technological (SPERT) characteristics. (power standard)
WH.A.2.2. Analyze how urban civilizations emerged and evaluate their cultural achievements.
WH.A.2.3. Students will compare the character of urban development in various regions, including the emergence of social hierarchies, occupational specializations, and writing systems.
Content Standard Four: Students will describe the political and economic structures of Empires.
WH.A.4.1. Students will analyze the political and economic structures, which led to the rise and fall of Empires. (power standard)
WH.A.4.2. Students will analyze the ways in which trade networks, merchant communities, tributary systems of production and other factors contributed to the economic integration of Empires.
Content Standard Five: Students will analyze the social and cultural impact of empire building.
WH.A.5.4. Students will examine the impact of cultural diffusion from Empires into the surrounding cultures and vice versa.
Content Standard Six: The student will understand major global trends from 1000 to 1500 CE.
WH.A.6.3. Students will compare and contrast regions in terms of social, economic and political organization; and compare and contrast causes of economic growth, urbanization, commercialization, and technical or scientific innovation.
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