1.Explain how major events are related to one another in time.

2.Construct various timelines of key events, people, and periods of history.

3.Use maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features.

1.  Frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.

2.Distinguish fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories.

5. Detect historical points of view and take historical context into consideration.

1.Explain the central issues and problems from the past, using time and place.

2.Understand cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events.

6.2 Early Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush

2 items

1.Locate and describe the major rivers systems and physical settings of this area that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations.Describe the relationship between religion and the social/political order in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

4.Know the significance of Hammurabi’s Code.

8.Identify the location of the Kush civilization and describe its political, commercial, and cultural relations with Egypt.

6.3 The Ancient Hebrews

3 items

1.Describe the origins and significance of Judaism as the first monotheistic religion.

4.Discuss the locations of the settlements and movements of Hebrew peoples, including the Exodus; outline the significance of the Exodus to the Jewish and other people.

6.4 Ancient Greece

3 items

1.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.

2.Trace the transition from tyranny and oligarchy to democratic forms of government and back to dictatorship in early Greece, include importance of citizenship.

3.State the differences between Athenian democracy and representative democracy.

6.5 Early Civilizations of India

2 items

1.Locate and describe the major river system and physical setting that supported the rise of this civilization.

3.Explain the beliefs and practices of Brahmanism and their evolution of Hinduism.

7.Discuss important aesthetic and intellectual traditions (in science, literature, mathematics).

6.6 Early Civilizations of China

2 items

1.Locate and describe the origins of Chinese civilization in the Huang-He Valley during the Shang dynasty.

2.Explain the geographic features of China that made governance difficult and isolated the country from the rest of the world.

4.Identify the political/cultural problems of Confucius’ time and how he tried to solve them.

6.7 The development of Rome

3 items

1.Identify the location and describe the rise of the Roman Republic, including key historic figures such as Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, Cincinnatus, Julius Caesar, and Cicero.

2.Describe the government of the Roman Republic and its significance.

3.Identify the location of and the reason for the growth of Roman territories.

7.Describe the circumstances that led to the spread of Christianity in Europe.

8.Discuss Roman art and architecture, technology and science, literature, language and law.