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📌 World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations 48 standards
6.1.1
Describe hunter-gatherer societies
Describe the hunter-gatherer societies, including the development of tools and the use of fire.
6.1.2
Identify locations of early human communities
Identify the locations of human communities that populated the major regions of the world and describe how humans adapted to a variety of environments.
6.1.3
Discuss rise of domestication of plants and animals
Discuss the climatic changes and human modifications of the physical environment that gave rise to the domestication of plants and animals and new sources of clothing and shelter.
6.2.1
Locate major river systems of early civilizations
Locate and describe the major river systems and discuss the physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations.
6.2.2
Trace development of agricultural surplus and cities
Trace the development of agricultural techniques that permitted the production of economic surplus and the emergence of cities as centers of culture and power.
6.2.3
Understand religion's role in social/political order
Understand the relationship between religion and the social and political order in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
6.2.4
Know significance of Hammurabi's Code
Know the significance of Hammurabi's Code.
6.2.5
Discuss Egyptian art and architecture
Discuss the main features of Egyptian art and architecture.
6.2.6
Describe Egyptian trade in the Mediterranean
Describe the role of Egyptian trade in the eastern Mediterranean and Nile valley.
6.2.7
Understand significance of Hatshepsut and Ramses
Understand the significance of Queen Hatshepsut and Ramses the Great.
6.2.8
Identify Kush and its relations with Egypt
Identify the location of the Kush civilization and describe its political, commercial, and cultural relations with Egypt.
6.2.9
Trace evolution of language and writing
Trace the evolution of language and its written forms.
6.3.1
Describe origins of Judaism as monotheistic religion
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.
6.3.2
Identify sources of Judaism's ethical teachings
Identify the sources of the ethical teachings and central beliefs of Judaism (the Hebrew Bible, the Commentaries): belief in God, observance of law, practice of the concepts of righteousness and justice, and importance of study; and describe how the ideas of the Hebrew traditions are reflected in the moral and ethical traditions of Western civilization.
6.3.3
Explain significance of key Jewish religious figures
Explain the significance of Abraham, Moses, Naomi, Ruth, David, and Yohanan ben Zaccai in the development of the Jewish religion.
6.3.4
Discuss Hebrew settlements and the Exodus
Discuss the locations of the settlements and movements of Hebrew peoples, including the Exodus and their movement to and from Egypt, and outline the significance of the Exodus to the Jewish and other people.
6.3.5
Discuss Judaism's survival after the Temple's destruction
Discuss 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.
6.4.1
Discuss geography and Greek city-states
Discuss 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.
6.4.2
Trace transition to democratic government in Greece
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).
6.4.3
State differences between direct and representative democracy
State the key differences between Athenian, or direct, democracy and representative democracy.
6.4.4
Explain significance of Greek mythology and literature
Explain the significance of Greek mythology to the everyday life of people in the region and how Greek literature continues to permeate our literature and language today, drawing from Greek mythology and epics, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and from Aesop's Fables.
6.4.5
Outline founding and organization of Persian Empire
Outline the founding, expansion, and political organization of the Persian Empire.
6.4.6
Compare life in Athens and Sparta
Compare and contrast life in Athens and Sparta, with emphasis on their roles in the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.
6.4.7
Trace rise of Alexander the Great
Trace the rise of Alexander the Great and the spread of Greek culture eastward and into Egypt.
6.4.8
Describe enduring contributions of Greek figures
Describe the enduring contributions of important Greek figures in the arts and sciences (e.g., Hypatia, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Thucydides).
6.5.1
Locate the major river system of early India
Locate and describe the major river system and discuss the physical setting that supported the rise of this civilization.
6.5.2
Discuss significance of the Aryan invasions
Discuss the significance of the Aryan invasions.
6.5.3
Explain Brahmanism's evolution into Hinduism
Explain the major beliefs and practices of Brahmanism in India and how they evolved into early Hinduism.
6.5.4
Outline the caste system's social structure
Outline the social structure of the caste system.
6.5.5
Know Buddha's teachings and Buddhism's spread
Know the life and moral teachings of Buddha and how Buddhism spread in India, Ceylon, and Central Asia.
6.5.6
Describe growth of the Maurya empire and Asoka
Describe the growth of the Maurya empire and the political and moral achievements of the emperor Asoka.
6.5.7
Discuss aesthetic and intellectual traditions of India
Discuss important aesthetic and intellectual traditions (e.g., Sanskrit literature, including the Bhagavad Gita; medicine; metallurgy; and mathematics, including Hindu-Arabic numerals and the zero).
6.6.1
Locate origins of Chinese civilization
Locate and describe the origins of Chinese civilization in the Huang-He Valley during the Shang Dynasty.
6.6.2
Explain geographic features that isolated China
Explain the geographic features of China that made governance and the spread of ideas and goods difficult and served to isolate the country from the rest of the world.
6.6.3
Know Confucius and teachings of Confucianism/Taoism
Know about the life of Confucius and the fundamental teachings of Confucianism and Taoism.
6.6.4
Identify problems of Confucius's time
Identify the political and cultural problems prevalent in the time of Confucius and how he sought to solve them.
6.6.5
List policies and achievements of Shi Huangdi
List the policies and achievements of the emperor Shi Huangdi in unifying northern China under the Qin Dynasty.
6.6.6
Detail Han Dynasty's political contributions
Detail the political contributions of the Han Dynasty to the development of the imperial bureaucratic state and the expansion of the empire.
6.6.7
Cite significance of the Silk Roads
Cite the significance of the trans-Eurasian "silk roads" in the period of the Han Dynasty and Roman Empire and their locations.
6.6.8
Describe diffusion of Buddhism to China
Describe the diffusion of Buddhism northward to China during the Han Dynasty.
6.7.1
Describe the rise of the Roman Republic
Identify the location and 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.
6.7.2
Describe the government of the Roman Republic
Describe the government of the Roman Republic and its significance (e.g., written constitution and tripartite government, checks and balances, civic duty).
6.7.3
Identify reasons for growth of Roman territories
Identify the location of and the political and geographic reasons for the growth of Roman territories and expansion of the empire, including how the empire fostered economic growth through the use of currency and trade routes.
6.7.4
Discuss Rome's transition from republic to empire
Discuss the influence of Julius Caesar and Augustus in Rome's transition from republic to empire.
6.7.5
Trace migration of Jews and conflict with Rome
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.
6.7.6
Note origins of Christianity
Note the origins of Christianity in the Jewish Messianic prophecies, the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament, and the contribution of St. Paul the Apostle to the definition and spread of Christian beliefs (e.g., belief in the Trinity, resurrection, salvation).
6.7.7
Describe spread of Christianity in Roman territories
Describe the circumstances that led to the spread of Christianity in Europe and other Roman territories.
6.7.8
Discuss legacies of Roman art, science, and law
Discuss the legacies of Roman art and architecture, technology and science, literature, language, and law.