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• Describe how trade, migration, conquest, and diplomacy can spread ideas and practices between cultures.
• Explain how interdependence between societies can create both cooperation and conflict.
• Identify examples of cultural exchange and connect them to changes in art, language, religion, or social structure.+ Show more

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• Explain how geographic features such as rivers and mountain passes can connect regions economically and socially
• Identify how shared environmental systems influence trade, migration, and resource use between regions
• Use evidence from a text to describe the benefits and challenges of regional networks

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• Explain how mountains, rivers, and climate can influence where civilizations form.
• Describe how human settlement patterns and land use interact with physical geography.
• Identify examples of how geography affects trade routes and agriculture.+ Show more

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• Explain how coastlines, rivers, deserts, and mountain passes can make migration easier or harder.
• Identify how trade routes connect regions and can increase cultural and economic exchange.
• Describe how migration can influence the growth of cities and trade hubs over time.

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• Explain how geographic location can create advantages or disadvantages for political power and economic activity
• Describe how coastal and inland regions can develop different patterns of trade and settlement
• Use geographic evidence to justify which region is likely to become a political or economic center over time+ Show more

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• Define cultural diffusion and explain how it spreads ideas and practices between regions.
• Identify geographic factors that can hinder or facilitate cultural exchange.
• Use examples to distinguish migration, trade, and conquest as pathways of diffusion.+ Show more

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• Identify key beliefs and practices of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism.
• Compare how religions influence holidays, laws, and daily social behavior in different societies.
• Explain how core religious ideas can shape cultural identity and community cohesion over time.

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• Explain how trade routes, conquests, and exploration can spread cultural practices and innovations.
• Identify examples of cultural diffusion and describe how they changed local societies.
• Compare how different historical interactions can lead to new cultural blends.

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• Explain how art and literature can reflect and shape societal values.
• Identify examples of creative expression that challenge social norms.
• Describe how intellectual ideas spread through cultural works and inspire reform.+ Show more

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• Explain how military expansion helped classical empires grow and control territory
• Describe how political organization and law supported government in the Roman, Han, and Persian empires
• Identify economic systems that sustained empire growth and trade+ Show more

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• Identify key features of ancient African civilizations such as Egypt and the Nok culture.
• Explain how writing, architecture, and trade supported social structures and cultural change.
• Describe how innovations spread through exchange networks over time.+ Show more

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• Identify key features of monarchies, city-states, and tribal councils
• Compare how different governance systems build authority and social cohesion
• Explain how laws and leadership roles can maintain order in a community+ Show more

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• Explain how political institutions help organize authority and decision-making.
• Describe the roles of legislative, judicial, and executive functions in government.
• Identify how codified laws and dispute resolution support social order.+ Show more

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• Explain how hereditary monarchy, merit-based appointment, and democratic participation choose leaders.
• Compare how different governance models affect political stability and public participation.
• Identify key features of governance systems used by civilizations to manage laws, resources, and social order.

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• Explain how major technological innovations changed economic activity and job opportunities.
• Describe how innovations in communication helped ideas spread more quickly.
• Use evidence from a passage to identify links between technology, social change, and daily life.

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• Explain how sanitation, electric lighting, and medical innovations changed daily routines over time
• Identify ways infrastructure supports public health and community organization
• Match key terms to their definitions related to infrastructure and technology+ Show more

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• Explain how new scientific knowledge can improve production methods over time
• Describe how advances in communication and transportation increase connections between communities
• Use evidence from a passage to support claims about economic growth and daily life changes+ Show more

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• Explain how map legends and symbols help readers interpret geographic information.
• Use map scale to describe distance on a map compared to real-world distance.
• Identify spatial patterns and how they relate to settlement areas and transportation networks.

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• Identify how geographic tools and maps show spatial relationships between places
• Analyze how physical features and human choices affect where resources, settlements, and trade routes develop
• Interpret patterns from maps and other geographic data to explain regional change and stability+ Show more

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• Explain how natural resources are distributed across regions and how that affects where people live
• Describe how population density and resource availability can influence trade and economic development
• Use evidence from a diagram and a reading passage to interpret regional prosperity

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• Identify key physical features such as mountain ranges, rivers, and plains on a map.
• Compare physical features with political boundaries like countries, states, and cities.
• Explain how physical geography can influence where political borders are drawn.+ Show more

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• Explain how river flooding, volcanic activity, and climate variation can affect where people live
• Identify ways physical processes shape economic activities and land use
• Describe how human choices can reduce or worsen environmental impacts over time+ Show more

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• Explain how trade networks move goods across regions and connect communities.
• Identify how resources influence where trade routes develop.
• Describe how specialization can shape economic systems within a trade network.+ Show more

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• Explain how economic institutions like markets, banks, and governments support trade and stability.
• Compare barter and currency and describe why currency is widely used.
• Identify how economic institutions affect investment and the flow of resources.+ Show more