6.2.1

E

Recognize an example of a barter economy.

6.2.2

E

Identify major trade routes (i.e., silk roads, Persian trade routes, African trade routes, Mediterranean trade routes, and ocean routes).

6.2.3

E

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

6.2.4

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).

6.2.5

E

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

6.2.6

E

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

6.3.1

G

Identify the basic components of a world map (i.e., compass rose, map key, scale, latitude and longitude lines, continents, and oceans).   

6.3.2

G

Identify basic geographic forms (i.e., rivers, lakes, bays, oceans, mountains, plateaus, deserts, plains, and coastal plains).

6.3.3

G

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

6.3.4

G

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

6.3.5

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).

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).

6.1.1

G

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

6.1.6

G

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

6.1.8
 

G

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

6.4.1

GC

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

6.4.2

GC

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

6.4.3

GC

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

6.4.4

GC

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

6.4.5
 

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).

6.5.2

WH 1

Recognize the types of early communities (i.e., nomadic, fishing, and farming).

6.5.5
 

WH 1

Identify major technological advances (i.e., tools, wheel, irrigation, river dikes, development of farming, advances in weaponry, written language, and printing press).

6.5.4
 

WH 1

Recognize the forms of early world writing (i.e. cuneiform and Egyptian/Native American Hieroglyphics).

6.1.3
 

WH 1

Recognize the world's major religions and their founders (i.e., Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed).

6.1.7
 

WH 1

Identify how early writing forms in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley influenced life (i.e., legal, religious, and culture).

6.5.17

WH 1

Recognize the significant mythologies of the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.

6.5.6

WH 1, 2

Recognize the designations for time dating (i.e., BCE, AD, centuries, decades, prehistoric, and historic).

6.5.7

WH 1, 2

Recognize major historical time periods (i.e., Early Civilizations, Classical Period, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, and Renaissance).

6.5.1

WH 1, 2

Read a timeline and order events of the past between prehistory and the Renaissance.

6.6.1

WH 1, 2

Identify examples of groups impacting world history (i.e., Muslims, Christians, Mongolians, Vikings, slave traders, explorers, merchants/traders, and inventors.)

6.5.11
 

WH 1, 2

Identify characteristics including economy, social relations, religion, and political authority of various societies (i.e., Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek City-States, Roman Empire, Indian, and Medieval).

6.6.3
 

WH 1, 2

Describe the ways in which individuals can change groups (i.e., Martin Luther – Christian church, William of Normandy – English Monarchy, Joan of Arc – Hundred Years War, and Buddha – Chinese Culture).

6.5.12
 

WH 1, 2

Era 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Recognize the possible causes of change in civilizations (i.e., environmental change, political collapse, new ideas, warfare, overpopulation, unreliable food sources, and diseases).

6.6.2
 

WH 1, 2

Recognize the impact of individuals on world history (i.e., Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, William the Conqueror, Ramses II, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Aristotle, Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Martin Luther, and Johannes Gutenberg).

6.1.2

WH 1, 2

Identify the job characteristics of archaeologists, anthropologists, geologists, and historians.

6.1.5
 

WH 1, 2

Identify differences between various cultural groups (i.e., European, Eurasian, Indian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and Native American).

6.5.3

WH 1, 2

Identify types of artifacts by pictorial representation (i.e., Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Chinese, Native American, Medieval, and Renaissance).

6.5.8

WH 1, 2

Identify conclusions about early world historical events using primary and secondary sources.

6.5.10

WH 1, 2

Identify the development of written and spoken languages (i.e., Roman alphabet, Latin word origins, Romance Languages).

6.1.4

WH 1

Recognize significant epics as historical sources (i.e., Iliad, the Odyssey, Mahabharata, and Ramayana)

6.5.9

WH 2

Recognize and order major historical events on a timeline between the Middle Ages and Renaissance.   

6.5.13

WH 2

Identify the impact of advances in technology on history (i.e., agricultural revolution, Renaissance scientists, exploration during the 1400s).

6.5.14

WH 2

Recognize how the Renaissance changes the nature of society (i.e., shift from religious domination to science, philosophy, and art).

6.5.15

WH 2

Evaluate to what extent civilizations build on the accomplishments of previous civilizations.

6.5.16

WH 2

Era 4, 5

Compare and contrast the historical development of the Western, Eastern, and African cultures.