Standards

Early Civilizations Standards

Intro

WHS.2B Identify the characteristics of civilization. 

WHS.28A Identify methods used by archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and geographers to analyze evidence. 

WHS.28B Explain how historians analyze sources for frame of reference, historical context, and point of view to interpret historical events.

WHS.30A Use social studies terminology correctly. 

WHS.30B Use effective written communication skills, including proper citations and avoiding plagiarism. 

Revolutions in Agriculture: Early River Valley Civilizations 

WHS.1A Identify major causes and describe the major effects of the following events from 8000 BC to 500 BC: the development of agriculture and the development of the river valley civilizations. 

WHS.2A Summarize the impact of the development of farming (Neolithic Revolution) on the creation of river valley civilizations. 

WHS.2C Explain how major river valley civilizations influenced the development of the classical civilizations. 

WHS.15B Analyze the influence of human and physical geographic factors on major events in world history such as the development of river valley civilizations, trade in the Indian Ocean, and the opening of the Panama and Suez canals. 

WHS 15C Interpret maps, charts, and graphs to explain how geography has influenced people and events in the past. 

WHS.16A Identify important changes in human life caused by the Neolithic Revolution. 

WHS.18A Identify the characteristics of monarchies and theocracies as forms of government in early civilizations. 

WHS.19B Identify the impact of political and legal ideas contained in the following documents: Hammurabi's Code, the Jewish Ten Commandments, Justinian's Code of Laws, Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. 

WHS.26A Identify the origin and diffusion of major ideas in mathematics, science, and technology that occurred in river valley civilizations, classical Greece and Rome, classical India, the Islamic caliphates between 700 and 1200, and China from the Tang to Ming dynasties.

WHS.28E Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause and‐effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, drawing inferences and conclusions, and developing connections between historical events over time.

WHS.29B Analyze and compare geographic distributions and patterns in world history shown on maps, graphs, charts, and models.

WHS.30A Use social studies terminology correctly