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HSS-6.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush.

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Trace the evolution of language and its written forms.

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Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

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HSS-6.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

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Describe the origins and significance of Judaism as the first monotheistic religion based on the concept of one God who sets down moral laws for humanity.

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HSS-6.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

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Identify the sources of the ethical teachings and central beliefs of Judaism (the Hebrew Bible, the Commentaries): belief in God, observance of law, practice of the concepts of righteousness and justice, and importance of study; and describe how the ideas of the Hebrew traditions are reflected in the moral and ethical traditions of Western civilization.

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HSS-6.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

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Explain the significance of Abraham, Moses, Naomi, Ruth, David, and Yohanan ben Zaccai in the development of the Jewish religion.

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HSS-6.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

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Discuss the locations of the settlements and movements of Hebrew peoples, including the Exodus and their movement to and from Egypt, and outline the significance of the Exodus to the Jewish and other people.

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HSS-6.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Ancient Hebrews.

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Discuss how Judaism survived and developed despite the continuing dispersion of much of the Jewish population from Jerusalem and the rest of Israel after the destruction of the second Temple in A.D. 70.

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Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Ancient Greece.

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HSS-6.4 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Ancient Greece.

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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.

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HSS-6.4 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Ancient Greece.

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Trace the transition from tyranny and oligarchy to early democratic forms of government and back to dictatorship in ancient Greece, including the significance of the invention of the idea of citizenship (e.g., from Pericles’ Funeral Oration).