Grades 6–7

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Analyzing how the agricultural revolution altered the lives of hunter-gatherer societies in creating permanent settlements. 6/7.2.1.a

Comparing and contrasting how early complex societies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas interacted with the environment to create thriving settlements. 6/7.2.1.b

Evaluating the role of human interactions with the environment in the progression of early complex societies.6/7.2.1.c

Identifying the geographic factors that led to societies becoming industrialized and urbanized. 6/7.2.2.a

Comparing and contrasting the cause and effects of industrialization and urbanization in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. 6/7.2.2.b

Evaluating the local impact of industrialization and deindustrialization on the environment and individual communities.6/7.2.2.c

Identifying the origins of the Green Revolution.6/7.2.3.a

Exploring case studies to compare the effects of the Green Revolution on societies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa.6/7.2.3.b

Evaluating how the Green Revolution impacted the environment, food production, and manufacturing. 6/7.2.3.c

Identifying the origins of human-caused climate change.6/7.2.4.a

Evaluating the global impact of climate change on the natural environment. 6/7.2.4.b

Evaluating the geographic characteristics that make some communities more vulnerable to climate change than others.6/7.2.4.c

Evaluating the local, regional, and global attempts to adapt to and mitigate the effects of human-caused climate change.6/7.2.4.d

Comparing social structures and belief systems in the early states of Greece or Rome, and China or Nubia/Egypt to examine how power is divided and maintained.6/7.3.1.a

Analyzing the motivations for territorial expansion among early complex societies.6/7.3.1.b

Analyzing how power shifts from one authority to another. 6/7.3.1.c

Identifying the role of religion in a theocracy.6/7.3.2.a

Analyzing factors that contributed to the rise of theocracies.6/7.3.2.b

Evaluating how theocracies expanded and limited economic and social opportunities.6/7.3.2.c

Identifying the multiple causes for democratic rebellions in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe.6/7.3.3.a

Analyzing how sovereignty and individualism influenced democratic revolutions and the impact on the roles of gender, and equality.6/7.3.3.b

Assessing the role of nationalism in the creation of new empires and the rise of the nation- state.6/7.3.3.c

Determining the local, regional, and global impacts of democratic revolutions.6/7.3.3.d

Analyzing factors that contributed to the rise of authoritarian regimes in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. 6/7.3.4.a

Examining efforts to resist the centralization of power within authoritarian regimes and the ways that they connected and divided people.6/7.3.4.b

Evaluating how policies in 21st century authoritarian regimes have challenged universal human rights, limited economic opportunities and access to technology.6/7.3.4.c

Examining the similarities and differences between Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Islam. 6/7.4.1.a

Analyzing how trade, war, and other factors facilitate the spread of religions.6/7.4.1.b

Evaluating how religions influenced human communities and the formation of societies and empires. 6/7.4.1.c

Tracing the geographic spread and the mechanisms that facilitated the spread of the Bubonic Plague in Asia and Europe.6/7.4.2.a

Describing how contemporary reactions to the Bubonic Plague were influenced by social and cultural values, and beliefs.6/7.4.2.b

Analyzing the plague’s short- and long-term impact on population and antisemitism.6/7.4.2.c

Explaining how World War Two and the United Nations served as a catalyst for decolonization and national sovereignty. 6/7.4.3.a

Analyzing the role of individual leaders, movements, and strategies in defeating colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.6/7.4.3.b

Assessing the long-term consequences (boundary disputes, civil war, economic underdevelopment, rise of dictators) of colonialism on the development of newly formed states in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. 6/7.4.3.c

Evaluating the progress made by former-colonial states in the 21st century.6/7.4.3.d

Identifying the origin and statistical trends of global pandemics and comparing the responses and impacts across regions.6/7.4.4.a

Examining the role of governments and non-governmental organizations in addressing the public health crises associated with the global spread of disease. 6/7.4.4.b

Contrasting the responses and impact of the global spread of disease.6/7.4.4.c

Exploring the role of Muslim missionaries, merchants, and military conquests on the spread of Islamic culture and religion.6/7.5.1.a

Analyzing Islamic influences on culture throughout Asia, North Africa, and Europe.6/7.5.1.b

Analyzing leadership decisions made in response to ruling over diverse non-Muslim populations. 6/7.5.1.c

Evaluating how leadership, advanced warfare, nomadic pastoralism helped the Mongol Empire gain power and expand.6/7.5.2.a

Evaluating the impacts of Mongol expansion on the societies conquered.6/7.5.2.b

Analyzing how territorial expansion increased Mongol contact with Africa, Asia, and Europe. 6/7.5.2.c

Determining the factors that contributed to the drawing of borders in the partition of India.6/7.5.3.a

Tracing the mass refugee migration created by the establishment of East Pakistan, India, and West Pakistan.6/7.5.3.b

Assessing the short- and long-term impacts of the partition of India. 6/7.5.3.c

Distinguishing between immigrants and emigrants, as well as refugees, asylum seekers, labor migrants, displaced persons, forced migrants, and other 21st century migrants.6/7.5.4.a

Describing how climate change, food insecurity, population growth, environmental degradation, armed conflict, and other factors impact 21st century migration patterns in and between Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas.6/7.5.4.b

Contrasting the range of responses to address 21st century migration patterns.6/7.5.4.c

Determining the incentives, costs, and benefits of the salt and spice trade in Asia, Africa, and Europe.6/7.6.1.a

Analyzing the movement of goods and ideas traded along the Silk Road, Indian Ocean Trade Routes, and Trans Saharan trade routes. 6/7.6.1.b

Evaluating the impact of the trade systems that emerged to meet the demand for salt and spice. 6/7.6.1.c

Identifying the principles of capitalism.6/7.6.2.a

Analyzing the role of capitalism in spurring innovation and creating wealth.6/7.6.2.b

Evaluating the political, economic, social, and cultural impacts of imperialism and settler colonialism on regions of the world.6/7.6.2.c

Contrasting how communities responded to and resisted imperialism and settler colonialism.6/7.6.2.d

Identifying the principles of communism and socialism.6/7.6.3.a

Analyzing the role of labor movements, leaders, and political change in the formation of centrally planned economies.6/7.6.3.b

Evaluating the long-term impacts of centrally planned economies in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. 6/7.6.3.c

Evaluating how new international institutions, multinational corporations (supply chains), recognition of global human rights, digital communication, industrial technologies (outsourcing) led to accelerated globalization. 6/7.6.4.a

Contrasting the long-term impacts of globalization in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa.6/7.6.4.b

Analyzing how regional responses to economic globalization promoted and challenged understandings of nationalism.6/7.6.4.c

Assessing how geographic features impacted trade, economics, and settlement patterns of the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations. 6/7.7.1.a

Examining the social structures and belief systems of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.6/7.7.1.b

Explaining the internal and external causes for the decline of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.6/7.7.1.c

Investigating the physical and human characteristics of Japan and how they influenced the development of Japanese feudalism.6/7.7.2.a

Assessing the effectiveness of the tools and methods used to unify, stabilize, and centralize Japanese life under the Tokugawa Shogunate Empire.6/7.7.2.b

Evaluating the myth of Japanese isolationism under the Tokugawa Shogunate.6/7.7.2.c

Evaluating the effectiveness in resisting Western imperialism.6/7.7.2.d

Identifying how Dutch and British colonialism influenced the creation of South African Apartheid.6/7.7.3.a

Determining the political, economic, and social elements of the system of Apartheid.6/7.7.3.b

Analyzing the role of individual leaders, organizations, violent and non-violent strategies, and international pressure in defeating Apartheid.6/7.7.3.c

Evaluating the effectiveness of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in redressing legacies of social injustice.6/7.7.3.d

Describing the significance of the Middle East to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. 6/7.7.4.a

Analyzing how the outcomes of the Holocaust influenced the founding of Israel, alongside the migration of non-European Jewish communities within the region.6/7.7.4.b

Examining how regional conflicts (e.g., the Israeli-Egyptian conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Iran-Iraq War, The Gulf War, etc.) and diplomacy have influenced efforts toward stability and cooperation in the Middle East.6/7.7.4.c

Evaluating how ongoing attempts at peace and cooperation define the meaning and status of Jerusalem within the region.6/7.7.4.d

Analyzing how human responses to the natural environment created early complex societies in North America. 6/7.8.1.a

Comparing and contrasting how urban centers in Chaco Canyon and Cahokia facilitated the movement of goods and ideas across long distances and connected peoples from diverse regions.6/7.8.1.b

Examining the role of human systems in the development of early complex societies in North America.6/7.8.1.c

Examining the nature of slavery around the world prior to the European settlement of North America.6/7.8.2.a

Describing the process and experience of the Transatlantic slave trade.6/7.8.2.b

Analyzing the rationale for the transition to chattel slavery and its relationship to the development of the theory of race.6/7.8.2.c

Examining the short- and long-term effects of chattel slavery on the social, political, and economic life in colonial North America. 6/7.8.2.d

Identifying shifts in human systems and place created by the cultural contributions of enslaved Africans and free Black populations in North America.6/7.8.2.e

Examining the motivations for European exploration and colonialism in the Americas.6/7.8.3.a

Contrasting Indigenous and European approaches to land use and how treaties were used to designate and deny sovereignty. 6/7.8.3.b

Analyzing the impact of trade, labor systems, and disease on the Indigenous nations and the European colonizers.6/7.8.3.c

Assessing the effectiveness of Indigenous responses and resistance to European colonization. 6/7.8.3.d

Determining the causes and consequences of the French and Indian War on American Indian alliances, British colonial policies, and American colonists.6/7.8.3.e

Examining demographic data on contemporary American Indian communities.6/7.8.4.a

Analyzing the role of native sovereignty in contemporary law. 6/7.8.4.b

Analyzing how native culture among identified tribes has persisted and evolved over time. 6/7.8.4.c

Examining contributions made by American Indians to the political and economic issues of the day. 6/7.8.4.d