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HSS-7.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Islam in the Middle Ages.

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Describe the growth of cities and the establishment of trade routes among Asia, Africa, and Europe, the products and inventions that traveled along these routes (e.g., spices, textiles, paper, steel, new crops), and the role of merchants in Arab society.

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HSS-7.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Islam in the Middle Ages.

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Understand the intellectual exchanges among Muslim scholars of Eurasia and Africa and the contributions Muslim scholars made to later civilizations in the areas of science, geography, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, art, and literature.

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Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.

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HSS-7.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.

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Describe the reunification of China under the Tang Dynasty and reasons for the spread of Buddhism in Tang China, Korea, and Japan.

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HSS-7.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.

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Describe agricultural, technological, and commercial developments during the Tang and Sung periods.

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HSS-7.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.

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Analyze the influences of Confucianism and changes in Confucian thought during the Sung and Mongol periods.

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HSS-7.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.

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Understand the importance of both overland trade and maritime expeditions between China and other civilizations in the Mongol Ascendancy and Ming Dynasty.

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HSS-7.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.

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Trace the historic influence of such discoveries as tea, the manufacture of paper, woodblock printing, the compass, and gunpowder.

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HSS-7.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.

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Describe the development of the imperial state and the scholar-official class.

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Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the sub-Saharan civilizations of Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa.