Standards

Western Empire Standards

WHS.1B Identify major causes and describe the major effects of the following events from 500 BC to AD 600: the development of the classical civilizations of Greece, Rome, Persia, India (Maurya and Gupta), China (Zhou, Qin, and Han), and the development of major world religions.

WHS.3A Describe the major political, religious/philosophical, and cultural influences of Persia, India, China, Israel, Greece, and Rome.

WHS.3B Explain the impact of the fall of Rome on Western Europe.

WHS.3C Compare the factors that led to the collapse of Rome and Han. China 

WHS.18B Identify the characteristics of the following political systems: theocracy, absolute monarchy, democracy, republic, oligarchy, limited monarchy, and totalitarianism.

WHS.19A Explain the development of democratic‐republican government from its beginnings in Judeo‐Christian legal tradition and classical Greece and Rome through the French Revolution. 

WHS.21B Identify the origins of ideas regarding the right to a "trial by a jury of your peers" and the concepts of “innocent until proven guilty” and “equality before the law” from sources including the Judeo‐Christian legal tradition and in Greece and Rome. 

WHS.24B Summarize the fundamental ideas and institutions of Western civilizations that originated in Greece and Rome.

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.26E Identify the contributions of significant scientists such as Archimedes, Copernicus, Eratosthenes, Galileo, Pythagoras, Isaac Newton, and Robert Boyle.

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.29A Create and interpret thematic maps, graphs, and charts to demonstrate the relationship between geography and the historical development of a region or nation.

WHS.30A Use social studies terminology correctly.

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

WHS.30C Interpret and create written, oral, and visual presentations of social studies information.