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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and land and water resources.

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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Understand how limits on resources affect production and consumption (what to produce and what to consume).

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Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).

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Students analyze the causes and effects of the vast expansion and ultimate disintegration of the Roman Empire.

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HSS-7.1 Students analyze the causes and effects of the vast expansion and ultimate disintegration of the Roman Empire.

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Study the early strengths and lasting contributions of Rome (e.g., significance of Roman citizenship; rights under Roman law; Roman art, architecture, engineering, and philosophy; preservation and transmission of Christianity) and its ultimate internal weaknesses (e.g., rise of autonomous military powers within the empire, undermining of citizenship by the growth of corruption and slavery, lack of education, and distribution of news).

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HSS-7.1 Students analyze the causes and effects of the vast expansion and ultimate disintegration of the Roman Empire.

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Discuss the geographic borders of the empire at its height and the factors that threatened its territorial cohesion.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-7.1 Students analyze the causes and effects of the vast expansion and ultimate disintegration of the Roman Empire.

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Describe the establishment by Constantine of the new capital in Constantinople and the development of the Byzantine Empire, with an emphasis on the consequences of the development of two distinct European civilizations, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic, and their two distinct views on church-state relations.

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Students analyze the historical developments of the Scientific Revolution and its lasting effect on religious, political, and cultural institutions.

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HSS-7.10 Students analyze the historical developments of the Scientific Revolution and its lasting effect on religious, political, and cultural institutions.

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Discuss the roots of the Scientific Revolution (e.g., Greek rationalism; Jewish, Christian, and Muslim science; Renaissance humanism; new knowledge from global exploration).