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DC.7.World History and Geography: Ancient World

World History and Geography: Ancient World

ERA II: EARLY RIVER CIVILIZATIONS TO 1000 B.C./B.C.E.

7.3. Students analyze the geographic, political, religious, social, and economic structures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.

7.3.1. Locate and describe the major river systems and the physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations. (G)

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7.3.10. Trace the evolution of language, its written forms (for record keeping, tax collection, and more permanent preservation of ideas), and the invention of papyrus in the early river civilizations. (S, E, I)

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7.3.11. Describe the role of Egyptian trade in the eastern Mediterranean and Nile Valley. (E)

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7.3.4. Understand the significance of Hammurabi’s Code and the basic principle of justice contained within the code. (P)

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7.3.5. Describe the relationship between religion (polytheism) and the social and political order in Mesopotamia and Egypt. (P, R, S)

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7.3.6. Understand the significance of Egyptian rulers Amenemhat, Queen Hatshepsut, and Ramses the Great. (P)

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7.3.7. Understand the contribution of Egyptian intellectual thought, including the moral teachings of Ptahotep (the Wisdom Texts), contributions in mathematics (Rhind Mathematical Papyrus), and religion (Pyramid texts). (I, R)

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7.3.8. Explain the relationship of pharaohs to peasants as a primary form of labor in Egypt. (S, E)

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7.3.9. Describe the main features of Egyptian art and monumental architecture, particularly sculptures, such as the Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza. (S,I)

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7.4. Students analyze the geographic, political, religious, social, and economic structures of the Indus Valley Civilization.

7.4.1. Locate the early civilization of the Indus Valley. (G)

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7.4.2. Identify the origins of Indus or Harappan civilization in the Indus Valley, and describe how the major river system and the physical setting supported the rise of the civilization. (G)

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7.5. Students analyze the geographic, political, religious, social, and economic structures in Northern China.

7.5.1. Identify the location of the early Chinese agrarian societies that emerged. (G)

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7.5.2. Describe the importance of the fertile valleys of the Huang He River to the location of early Chinese agricultural societies. (G)

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7.5.3. Identify the uses and significance of bronze-making technology. (I, E)

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7.5.4. Describe the government in the Shang Dynasty, the development of social hierarchy and religious institutions, and Zhou political expansion. (P, S, R)

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7.5.5. Describe the development of a writing system based on ideographs of characters that symbolize conceptual ideas. (I)

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7.6. Discuss the origins and characteristics of the Olmecs, the Mother Culture of Mesoamerica.

7.6.1. Describe the Olmecs’ highly developed agricultural system. (G, E)

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7.6.2. Explain its complex society that is governed by kings and priests with impressive ceremonial centers and artworks. (P, I)

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7.6.3. Describe the creation of syllabic and hieroglyphic writing systems and an accurate calendar. (I)

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7.6.4. Explain the religious traditions, including the worship of gods, goddesses, and Shamanistic rituals. (R)

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7.6.5. Describe characteristics of the Olmec architecture, sculpture, and stone carvings, such as the colossal heads. (I)

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ERA III: ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS TO 700 C.E.

7.11. Summarize the development of Chinese cultural, economic, political, and social institutions and China’s influence on other developing civilizations.

7.11.1. Explain China’s reunification under the Qin Dynasty after the disunification of the warring states period. (P, M)

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7.11.2. Detail the political contributions of the Han Dynasty to the development of the imperial bureaucratic state, internal political stability, and its influence outside of China. (P)

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7.11.3. Understand the life of Confucius; the fundamental teachings of Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism; and how Confucius sought to solve the political and cultural problems prevalent in the time. (R, S, I)

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7.11.4. Explain the adoption of Buddhism and its diffusion northward to China during the Han Dynasty. (G, R)

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7.11.5. Describe the foreign trade through the Silk Roads and the sea. (G, E)

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7.7. Students analyze the geographic, political, religious, social, and economic structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

7.7.1. Identify the location of ancient Israel. (G)

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7.7.2. Describe the settlements and movements of Hebrew peoples, including the exodus and their movement to and from Egypt, and the significance of the exodus to the Jewish and other peoples. (G)

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7.7.4. Describe how the ideas of the Hebrew traditions are reflected in the moral and ethical traditions of Western civilization. (P, S)

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7.7.5. Describe the origins and significance of Judaism as the first monotheistic religion based on the concept of one God who sets down moral laws for humanity. (R)

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7.7.6. Explain how Judaism survived and developed despite the continuing dispersion of much of the Jewish population from Jerusalem and the rest of Israel after the destruction of the second temple in A.D. 70. (G, R)

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7.8. Students analyze the geographic, political, religious, social, and economic structures of the early civilization of Ancient Greece.

7.8.1. Identify the location of Ancient Greece. (G)

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7.8.10. Identify key Greek figures in the arts and sciences (e.g., Hypatia, Hippocrates, Homer, Socrates, Sophocles, Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Euclid, Euripedes, and Thucydides). (I)

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7.8.2. Describe the connections between geography and the development of city-states in the region of the Aegean Sea, including patterns of trade and commerce among Greek city-states and within the wider Mediterranean region. (G, E)

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7.8.3. Trace the transition from tyranny and oligarchy to early democratic forms of government and back to dictatorship in ancient Greece, including the significance of the invention of the idea of citizenship (e.g., from Pericles’ Funeral Oration). (P)

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7.8.4. Explain the democratic political concepts developed in ancient Greece (i.e., the polis, or city-state; civic participation and voting rights; legislative bodies; constitution writing; and rule of law). (P)

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7.8.5. State the key differences between Athenian, or direct democracy, and representative democracy. (P)

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7.8.6. Outline the founding, expansion, and political organization of the Persian Empire. (G, P)

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7.8.8. Compare and contrast life in Athens to Sparta, with emphasis on the daily life of women and children, the games and sports of the Olympiad, the education of youths, the trial of Socrates, and their roles in the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. (S, M)

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7.8.9. Trace the rise of Alexander the Great and the spread of Greek culture eastward and into Egypt. (P, S)

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7.9. Students analyze the geographic, political, religious, social, and economic structures during the development of Rome.

7.9.1. Locate and describe the major river system and the physical setting that supported the rise of this civilization and the expansion of its political power in the Mediterranean region and beyond through the use of currency and trade routes. (G, E)

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7.9.10. Describe how inner forces (including the rise of autonomous military powers, political corruption, unemployment, and economic and political instability) and external forces (shrinking trade, external attacks, and barbarian invasions) led to the disintegra

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7.9.2. Describe the rise of the Roman Republic, including the importance of such mythical and historical figures as Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, Cincinnatus, Julius Caesar, and Cicero. (P)

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7.9.3. Explain the government of the Roman Republic and its significance (e.g., written constitution, separation of powers, rule of law, representative government, the notion of civic duty, and checks and balances) and why it was inadequate to administer Roman a

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7.9.4. Describe the influence of Julius Caesar and Augustus in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. (P)

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7.9.5. Trace the migration of Jews around the Mediterranean region and the effects of their conflict with the Romans, including the Romans’ restrictions on their right to live in Jerusalem. (G, P)

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7.9.7. Describe the circumstances that led to the spread of Christianity in Europe and other Roman territories. (G, R)

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7.9.8. Describe the legacies of Roman art and architecture, technology and science (e.g., roads, bridges, arenas, baths, aqueducts, central heating, plumbing, and sanitation), literature and poetry, language, and law. (I)

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7.9.9. Explain the spread and influence of the Roman alphabet and the Latin language, the use of Latin as the language of education for more than 1,000 years, and the role of Latin and Greek in scientific and academic vocabulary. (I)

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DC.7.World History and Geography: Ancient World

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